Personal Narrative: My Passion For Learning New Things?

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Ever since I was a little girl, I have always had a passion for learning new things. At the age of 3, I started to realize that I was reading the picture books upside down. That was when I started turning them the right way up, but I still could not understand the words. It wasn 't that the publishers printed out the books wrong, but it was me. I couldn 't read! I remember begging my parents to let me go to school when I was around 4 years old and unsurprisingly, they let me.
My father was working in Phnom Penh, Cambodia at this time, and he put me in an English speaking school. I was already semi-fluent in Khmer because we speak it at home, but he thought it would be more important for me to learn English. I started learning my alphabets …show more content…

I moved back to Asia to reunite my family because the relationship I have with my father is one of the things I value most in my life. I learn the most important lessons from him. He taught me to be the best person I can be, and to be grateful for everything I have. Instead of a nice house, he got us a cozy small one right next to a dump site. Everyday I was awoken by the stench, somedays it was strong, somedays I couldn 't smell it. We lived with the local people because my father didn 't want me to forget my culture, family, or where we started. People aren 't always fortunate enough, and I considered myself very fortunate because everyday, I see kids around my age picking trash, or selling trash. They couldn’t go to school they were stuck in the cycle of poverty.
Education in Asia is a lot more expensive, public schools didn’t provide proper education so most people prefer private institution. People who couldn 't afford to go to private schools would go to public schools, or just not at all. The “…average income is about $950 per year. Eighty-percent of the population lives in the countryside, and fifty-seven percent of the labour force is engaged in agriculture…” World Renew. Most children don’t go to school, they would farm or work in

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