This is the first blog I am uploading for a quite amount of time. I want to update up my own life , instead of focusing on other broader subjects.

Transferring to a new school was not as bad as I thought it would be. Students around me, in the dorm, in the cafeteria, or in my classes are all very amiable. I never have to worry about not having a partner in a group project, or having someone to walk with after class. A private school is so different but also so similar from the public ones. It is a smaller community and a much bonding one, we will smile and nod to each other, even if we don’t know their names. Also, the same is with teachers, they remember you well. As a quiet student in class, sometimes I definitely feel a bit left out from the more opened American students, but now every teacher talks to me like a friend during classes and afterwards. I really did feel the hospitality the school gives to me, sometimes the hospitality even makes the school more like a home than it does in the real one 10 minutes away. However, I found all the students and teachers in both types of schools open-minded. Students accepts different races of people to be their friends, they like talking to a diversity of people. As a new Asian immigrant in the US, I strongly felt the how scared I was about racism. But none happened, and people around me gave me courage to talk back if there were any. Their open minds gave me confidence of who I am, and who I could be. Compared to the discouragement at home that Asian parents usually gives, I find school a much better place to prove that I am who I am.

The open minded allowed the school to have more creative ideas. In the US, I learned from the others to also be open minded, and accept new things. I loved kids long long ago, and in this country I found the possibility to find anything I want, and to try anything I want. I understand that the school will only provide me the possibility to try anything I want but not everything I want, but it already gave me a much wider and broader experience compared to the old school formed of education.

The open mindedness they have and spread also allowed there to be more partnership and team spirit. For instance, I joined the swimming team this semester, I was so afraid that I would be the slowest among the team, but even though I found out that I indeed was the slowest, the way that the coaches and team mates accepted me and helped me was very warming. Every time I compete in a meet, the girl as will always stand on both sides of the pool cheering me up. Myself, as a shy person, also ran around the pool screaming until I lost my voice. The happiness that we shared when someone in our team got first place was unbelievable, it was as if it was you that got the golden metal. The spirit, is what we shared an loved. But thinking back, if my teammates weren’t open minded, they wouldn’t accept a weak freshman into their team, I woudln’t even hope for their help and cheering.

I love the cheering, I love the dorms and the classes so much, I love the school, and I love the atmosphere. I feel welcomed even in a brand new country with different races of people, this has truly became my home.