I still cannot believe that today is May 1st, but the temperature in Minneapolis is still under 10 centigrade. However in my hometown, everybody starts wearing summer clothes, and enjoy the best weather in the year now. Sometimes I ask myself a same question times after times, why I want to come here, where is extremely old almost every day, to study. Today I find the answer, and I want to share with other international students.
Before I came here, I was already sophomore in one of the Chinese university. I could choose a very comfort way to accomplish my college, and then find a not so bad job in the future. Maybe I will marry to someone and build our own family. Though the life in the future seems not so bad, I won’t accept it somehow. For me, when I was a little child, what I want to do when I grew up was to find a job that I really liked, and I could devote all my time and energy on it. But as I grow up, all the things do not go like what I’ve planned. My parents chosen a university for me which I totally did not like at all. They also “helped” me chosen a major. So it could be concluded as my parents have controlled my life for 20 years. So I wanna make a change, I wanna find another world. Then I come to the US.
I come here not only try to escape my parents’ controls, but also want to try to learn and new a totally different new world. I really wanna broaden my views, make some new friends and have a better understanding about what I really want to gain in the future. I do not want to find an ordinary job and live in an ordinary life in the future. Though they are not so bad, or maybe they are the best choices for women, I still want to find my own interesting way to live.
So my advices to other new international students are,
Firstly, before you come here, you must figure out the reason why you want to study abroad. If the decision is not made by yourself, please think over before you come.
Secondly, the life in foreign country is harder than your imagination. So please be prepared for living a harder life than China.
Thirdly, please don’t worry about your English. Maybe you are nervous because you think your oral English is very bad. But you could improve a lot if you try your best to live in this coutry. Because you could find so many chances to improve it here than in your hometown.
By the way, before you come to the U.S. I strongly recommend you to remember as many English words as you can. For me, I feel uncomfortable that I know only a little English words. That’s why sometimes you won’t understand what your instructor said in class. More or less, it will have bad effects on your studying. That’s why it is extremely important for you to remember more English words.
Overall is what I want to say to the international students.
