My Experience: Studying Experience In The United States

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Studying experience in the United States
Have you ever had any experience studying in other countries? Most students would like to study in their own country, but I had a chance to visit the United States and decided to study abroad to start my own journey. I would like to share the two reasons why I study in another country and the experience I had.
I decided to study in the United States for two reasons. Firstly, I had a chance to visit the United States when I graduated from junior high school in 2013. I came to the United States with a group of people in a summer camp during the summer. It was my first time to go to another unfamiliar country and I was so excited and felt nervous. We arrived at Newark Liberty International Airport on August …show more content…

The airplane left China; I did not feel excited like the first time I came to America. I started to feel nervous when the airplane was flying in the sky. I felt tired and fell asleep in my tiny spot. I started to close my eyes and it was cozy and comfortable. After I arrived at the St. Louis airport, it was midnight. One of English program’s teachers came to pick me up. It was not a rainy day, but it reminded me the first day I came to the United States two years ago. I started to study at Greenville College in Illinois for one year. At the beginning of the year, I could not speak fluent English. However, after I studied for a few months I started to understand some conversations. Also I like to play basketball, so when I had free time I always went to the court. When I played I also made some good friends. They were nice to me and we always have a lot of funs. After one year, I transferred to Indiana Wesleyan University and it is bigger school than Greenville College. I saw that different races of people were studying and living together. After I went to chapel regularly for one semester, I started to learn something about Christianity. My grandparents and parents believe in Buddhism, so I loosely follow Buddhism. I could feel the difference between the two religions and how important it is to love other people. And it is very interesting for me to interact with different people and cultures from all over the

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