Realizing My Dream: Studying in the U.S.A

I have always been the girl with a lot of dreams, but many of them I did not believe I could achieve. I always dreamed to marry Bruno Mars and travel around the world with him, my best friend and my dog and be Nicki Minaj’s best friend. I always had crazy dreams, but I had one that I was sure I would achieve: to study at a college in the U.S.A.

Since I was fifteen years old I told my parents that I wanted to study in the U.S.A. They never thought that I was being serious. They always laughed at me and said, “Okay, if you finish your high school with good grades, you will go there to study at college.” Every year I counted the time until I finished high school and could travel to the U.S.A and live my dream.

In my last year of high school, I

They told me to calm down and everything would be all right. I sat down and waited for them to call my name. When they called me they just asked me one question, “Who is your father?” and I answer them that my father was the Bishop of United Methodist Church. Then they told me congratulations, and to come back the next day to pick up my passport. I could not believe it. I started to dance while I was walking from the embassy to my house. I could not wait for my mother to pick me up. That was one of the happiest days in my life. Before I left Angola, I threw a big party and I invited all my friends and family. My best friends made a video with all of our great moments. My mother prepared my favorite food, my three years old niece took me to dance with her like we always did. Then everybody started to sing my favorite music. After the party I realized that I would leave them, I would be alone and I would have to make new friends. I got scared and I cried the whole

I heard that “Kansas has always tornados, people in Kansas were not friendly and Kansas was the most boring place ever.” I told my father that I would not study in Kansas and I was already looking for Colleges in New York City. I got surprised with my father’s reaction, I thought that he would yell at me but he did not he just said, “if is it that you want, it is okay.” I started to think why my father react that way, so I went to Southwestern College web site and I search more about the college and I decided to try. Then I talked to the administration office and I started the classes on January.

Studying college here in the U.S.A was a big dream of mine because of the education system in Angola. Angola still has poor education and I wanted to have a better education to help my country grow. And the education here in the U.S.A is one of the best in the world and my whole life I loved to hear my father’s English conversation with his co-worker. I used to try to speak like him and sing English music. I did not understand what the music meant but I really enjoy singing the