This is my 'memoir'. I hope you would enjoy reading it.
Becoming one of the students at Baker School
It was a very bright day and my family and I were having dinner. Suddenly my father made announcement. That announcement was just about to change my life. “Everyone,” said my father “I have an announcement to make, which is very important,” said my father looking at everyone at our table. “We are going to USA to live and experience a new environment.”
My mom was very calm is she had already knew the news, but my sisters and I were having a disaster. We all thought why do we have to go to USA? We have a better life here in China (but we are Koreans). My father noticed our looks on our faces. “It’s going to be okay girls. It will be fun!” said my father. Now my older sister was about to complain, but my father stopped her, so we had no choice.
After a few weeks, we packed our bags and boxes with loads and loads of stuff like clothes, balls, hats …etc
Finally the day came, the day that we are leaving China. My heart beated like thunder, I was thrilled, but at the same time I felt anxious. I had all the questions in my mind. Are American schools big? Are there bullies? Is someone going to tease me? I trembled a bit. Suddenly our car went into a dark building I woke up from my day-dreaming. I realized that we have already arrived at the airport.
“Which bags do you need to send?” asked the lady who was on the counter
“we need to send 10 bags,” said my father, I was amazed by our bags and boxes, but the lady didn’t seem to be surprised.
It took a long time to send our bags. I fiddled with my bag and I looked at my finger nails. I was extremely bored.
“Okay, your bags have been sent,” said the lady. I was relieved. I thought it was going to take forever to send those bags.
We went through the gates finding where the airplane was. A lot of pilots were passing by. Finally we found our gate rushed through the gate because we were almost late.
The airplane moved while I was reading a book. The airplane was shaking, then suddenly the airplane bursted into speed it was going up into the sky. I was excited to ride in an airplane. I liked the feeling when the airplane shook, but I had to change airplanes for 5 times. First we arrived at Seoul, Korea from Beijing, then we went to Japan, I was still doing okay by the time I arrived at Japan, but here came the horror part, we had to change the airplane from Japan to Los Angeles. It was a pain. I could not sleep much because the seats were not that comfortable, I was bored because I couldn’t do much except for sleep, watch TV or eat. I thought we were almost there by the time we arrived at Los Angeles, but my family and I had to wait for 4 hours to ride in an airplane that was headed for Las Vegas, so I went to sleep.
Finally my father said, “it’s time to go to Las Vegas. Let’s go!” I was pretty sure that my father was tired too.
So again I rode an airplane and headed for Boston. While I was riding an airplane, my mouth felt as if I had a furry animal in my mouth, and I had to eat those horrible airplane foods.
After days and nights we arrived in Boston MA, USA. I could almost hear the hallelujah chorus.
I woke up, my eyes widened I looked around my room. ‘Wow, my room has changed a lot’ I thought, and then I realized that I was in my new room in USA. My room smelled really weird, it was a really strange, and weird smell.
“Good morning, Chae Won!” bellowed my dad.
“Hi, Dad,” I spoke in a weird voice when I woke up.
“Today you are going to a special place,” said my dad. My heart began to beat. Oh no! I thought, I knew where I was going. I suddenly became very nervous.
I brushed my teeth, changed my clothes and dashed downstairs. My mom and dad were waiting anxiously for me and my sister. Soon my sister came downstairs. We hurried outside.
I jumped into the car, my heart beated like thunder again. I couldn’t believe that this was actually happening. Our car started, I felt a shiver down my back. Why should I have to do this? Why do I have to go? I was having all those questions in my mind. I imagined myself failing and embarrassing myself. Then suddenly our car stopped in front of a building. “This is it girls,” said my dad facing me and my younger sister.
“Dad, do we have to take the test?” I asked in a little trembling voice,
“Well, you might take one,” said my dad. We went into the building. We waited outside the office waiting for a teacher to come. Then suddenly a teacher said “Hello! I’m going to take Chae Won and YeHo to have a test with me.” I froze where I was standing. My worst thought came true.
“Hello, my name is Ms.Chong. Nice to meet you,” said the teacher. I was too nervous to answer. I looked around the building. It was pretty big. I liked the place quite much.
Ms.Chong led us to a room. There were sheets lying on a table. Ms.Chong explained to me, and my sister that these sheets are for me and my sister to work on. I worked on it. My hand quivered as I wrote down the answers. I was spooked by the test and the face of Ms.Chong. She looked very serious, and fearsome.
After few minutes, I had to have an interview. Sometimes I was babbling and sometimes my voice trembled. Finally the test was over. A teacher led me to a room. My parents were having a discussion with a student councilor. So I had to wait outside but the teacher let me in. I was still bored.
“Okay, thank you for coming!” said the teacher. We all said good bye to the teacher.
“Chae Won and YeHo, you guys are in English class!” said my father like he was really proud. Finally I thought to myself this thing is over. Even though my voice trembled, and sometimes I babbled, the teacher listened to me carefully, so later after starting the interview, I talked very confidently. I’ll never forget the day I entered Baker School, and how I arrived at MA, USA
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