How To Become An Immigrant

One of the biggest and difficult changes in my life has been to emigrate to The United States. Just a few months ago I was that guy full of dreams with so many things in my mind, trying to figure out how to become an independent and successful person, trying to find the “make a living by doing what you love”. Perhaps of the way I was raised I’ve always believed that there isn’t any better satisfaction than gather all your commitment and efforts to achieve a goal and reach it; and I knew that second part it was going to be impossible if I stayed in my native country. I knew that if I continued studying my career back then, no matter how hard I would try, I would be end up just like my parents, with a degree hung on the wall and working in a

It was a tough decision but I was convinced and clearly focused on my objective.
When I got here it was very difficult, it was just like if I had born again. Everything was so different that I felt like discovering a new world where people used to wear headphones as their ears and where the streets where full of cars instead of people walking on sidewalks. I had to start to learn a complete different style of life that I never imagine existed. I thought that I would always be an alien in another city, completely lost. I realized that I had grown up with a very distorted image of reality.
Learning a total different language was another challenge that I still struggle with. I can remember myself for a while remaining mute, ashamed because I couldn’t communicate with others and terrified because anytime soon I had to start crashing with realism. When I got my first job I was fired because of my English. I had to deal with teenagers all the time and the language they used was full of slang, words that didn’t even make sense in my mind. I didn’t get down, instead, it gave me more energy to reinforce my English. I worked on that and started to go to English courses, got another job where I made some new good friends and little by little I was starting to get involved into the American culture. I found it fascinating. I