Personal Experience: My Experience With An Ipod Touch

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When I was in middle school, I convinced my dad and my mom to buy me an Ipod Touch. The reason I wanted to have an Ipod Touch was when I saw one friend in my class in my middle school had it. I saw my friend played with his Ipod Touch during break time everyday. I had a chance to borrow his Ipod Touch and play games on it. His Ipod Touch was so fascinating because it gave me a new experience that I had never had a chance to try in life. I started to think that it would be so cool if I had an Ipod Touch. I could play games, listen to music, watch Youtube and more on an Ipod Touch. I could virtually do everything on an Ipod Touch, so I really wanted to own one. An Ipod Touch was an expensive dream for a middle school student like me at that …show more content…

Even though I knew the reasons why my parents disagreed with what I asked them, I was still disappointed. My parents were very strict, so I knew it would be hard for a middle school student like me to own an Ipod Touch. My parents did not want me to neglect my studies, so they allowed me to play with a computer for only three hours on the weekend. During my free time on weekdays, I could read books, watch television, and do anything except that I could play games on computers or phones. At that time, technology was not as popular as in the present. Playing a computer for three hours was totally enough for me. However, I was still envied with my friend about his Ipod Touch. I realized that even though my parents were hard to convince, I did not want to give up my hope that they would buy me an Ipod Touch one …show more content…

I went to private lessons afterschool with my friends and spent my time studying with my tutor on the weekend. My schedule for the last half and one year in middle school only focused on studying. I believed that I needed to study hard to pursue my dream and made the promise I made with my parents become the truth. After a half and one year, I took the transfer test for middle school students at one of the top three national gifted high schools in Hanoi, where was the capital of my country, Vietnam. I got accept into one of the top three national gifted high schools, which was called “High School for Gifted Students, Hanoi National University of Education (HNUE High School).” At the time I got accepted, my high school ranked second nationally in Vietnam university admission ranking. It was so amazing and wonderful news for my family and especially myself. I finally carried out the promise I made with my parents. My parents did not believe that I really did what I promised them. I finally got an Ipod Touch that I always dreamed of. My parents told me that they even planed to give an Ipod Touch as a gift of graduating middle school even if I could not get accepted into the top three national gifted high schools. When I heard what they said, I realized that I learned a valuable lesson from my experience. I wondered if I gave up on persuading my parents to buy my an Ipod

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