My trip to USA for studying
Introduction
As a substantial significant trip to happen in my life ever, I traveled to the US courtesy of my father. Back in the year 20010 January, my father informed me of the trip to the US, to continue with my education. Having heard of stories before and watching documentaries concerning the developing America as one of the western blocks politically, socially and economically, it rejuvenated the hopes of experiencing the western culture. The long awaited opportunity with the passion to learn English following the old saying that studying English broadens a person’s horizons kept the spirit awake. Traveling to the US to continue with my education with specifications to the English language stirred the interest of venturing in a new dimension of the education system prompting me to make promises of studying hard once already there.
The trip to the USA proved to be short and fleeting for the first timers just as said, but full of elaborative explorations with excitement. This would be a challenge to my new life with the aspect of maturity and independence. As the plane gained heath into the misty clouds, I felt dizzy but later become prime. Upon landing on the Boston Logan Airport, we were picked up by my uncle who had gone to pursue his master’s degree in accounting. The principal reasons that made me convince my father to approve of my studying in the US includes adventure, summer vacation trips, new education system and the diversified cultures in the US.
The trip experience
For many years studying in my native country, I had the convincing desire to celebrate the happy moments I used to seen in some of the American produced documentaries. I had the belief that the majority of the American holidays had a peculiar element attached since they proved to be remarkably different from the native experience. The belief despite the indications to the specified contrary, I always had the dream of attaining my education goal with an experience of the US real culture and education system. The most significant part of the trip to the US was the cultural exchange with the desire to access quality education I believed to be in existence.
California, during winter break
The trip would prove of the cultural diverse in existence, in the US society. The experience of boarding a bus to school and sitting next to a Spaniard and asking for something from the student sitting in the front seat who happens to be French posed the challenge. I had leant that variety as a significant aspect in a society made America an ideal place of accessing the better knowledge and professional education of mutual understanding. With the American education system, popularity with the well-established institutions posed the significant challenge to make travel arrangements of continuing with education. It was a dream experiencing the desired student life in one of the most successful English speaking country as a student. Facing the existing different speaking interactions in the cultural setting, listening to tutorials and lectures with an engagement in varying conversations with the future schoolmates was a seductive message prior to the trip.
Boston, beautiful view of the city
With an understanding based on speculations, it was difficult to overestimate the life I would encounter in the US. My father instilled in me the hopes of accessing the best system that welcomes students from all corners of the globe. This is through sharing of education ideas and values in the aspect of achieving an improvised mutual understanding. The opportunity was the best way to gaining an understanding of the US culture, history, principles, and the paradigms through accessing the education system and blending with the new education life. The trip to the US would help in fulfilling the set goals in education framework specifically designed with the aspect of bringing different cultures together. This is with the vital understanding that together in mutual learning and corporation would help construct a better future for everyone living in America.
Boston, my room
Accessing the education system of the US was to have an undisputable influence on my future in consideration to career chosen with the prospective job. In my opinion, an education achieved in the US assures of a confident, established, and responsible future. The interaction to experience in the multicultural society having different people would assist in becoming an immensely adaptable to the respective world-changing environment. The everyday experience in the US education system would help in molding me into a flexible and open-minded student.
In consideration to my professional goals, the skills and the expected experience as acquiring in the US education system would also assist in making me successful. Understanding the diverse cultural interaction of the US upon accessing the society itself helped. This is in considering the types of personalities in the education system with the corresponding ideas and norms that the American citizens value. Following the successful social interactions and cultural exchange with the neighborhood in Boston, I gained flexibility in handling the different people I encountered in my American school life.
Boston, school library
After staying in the US for a period of four weeks, I managed to access one of the local schools through the help of my uncle. Studying in the US would affect my lifestyle in countless ways. The lessons I expected to learn would mark a change in my entire education life forever. With the aspect of an increased diversity, relating to the people around me was a challenge. This is through the urge to become friends with all the different people in the neighborhood and at school. Becoming engaged to the intercultural setting of the US society was also a challenge. My worldview would undergo changes with time, as is a blend into the American education system. This is due to the aspect of looking at things from the outside perspective with a corresponding understanding of existing cultural views.
Personally as, time moved on, I started appreciating the settings of the society and valuing everybody, I met in school life and the opportunities that surfaced in my life. Appreciating the US education life with its framework contributed significantly to the achievement of my set goals since days prior to the trip, I had made a promise of leading the life that every American lead inclusive of the natives. I had promised myself to interact only with people having significant intentions with a genuine nature.
Conclusion
Studying in the US is an experience that is understandable following the accessibility its setting. It has significant effects on the perception of things and substantial interactions with accessibility of improvised education system with diversified setting. The everyday experience in the US education system would help in molding me into a flexible and open-minded student. In consideration to my professional goals, the skills and the expected experience as acquiring in the US education system would also assist in making me successful. The trip to the US to continue with studies broadened the professional outlook of my education and personal skills necessary for future life.
