Personal Narrative: My Move To America

I know I’m moving in the right direction when I have the power to keep going even after facing challenges thrown at me from life. I always believed that for success to be tangible, I have to be resilient and optimistic. The ability to withstand stress, adapt, and overcome changes in life is what helps keep me on track and reach your goals. Of course, controlling thoughts and keeping sane through changes in life isn’t as easy as it sounds and that is what I didn’t know the moment I emigrated to America. Even though I had the mentality of never giving up, I didn’t know how difficult it is until unexpected changes beyond my control tested my resilience. The difficulty of speaking the language, dealing with the cultural differences, and most importantly,
I still wasn’t able to learn the culture and fit in, and this initial challenge became even harder during high school as the community became bigger and I was still treated as an alien. My father wasn’t able to help me much since he didn’t know about how life worked here either and didn’t have the time and focus to fully keep an eye on how I did in school. Even though he showed me how to succeed in school, it was still significantly different than in Egypt and that is why my challenges increased. I had to embark on this journey of new experiences all alone since I’m the first to go through all these adjustments. It was all up to me to learn from the experiences I went through in high school and my teenage life in America. With all the changes happening in my life as a teenager and as a foreigner in a different country, I didn’t have the motivation to pull the best grades or to be a top student during my high school career. High school was a learning curve for me. Even though I didn’t do well and didn’t go onto a reputable four-year institution, I matured and learned to be successful during high school by failing my standards and learning how serious and demanding it is to lose my chance of becoming successful. Even though differences in the American culture and the system posed plenty of challenges for me, I was very thankful that it was different from my home
Now that I have learned how life works here I’m able to manipulate my surroundings and not just grasp opportunities coming my way, but create opportunities that work for me towards making me achieve my goals to be as successful as I can. My main belief in life is that if I work hard enough to reach the highest possible position and fight what life throws at me, I will be able to ask anything from life and get what I want. There came a certain point in life where learned the I have to keep it moving which meant that I can’t look at a problem but I must look through the problem because if I stop fighting, I’ll fail, but the moment I learn that all it takes to be successful is to be resilient I will be able to live and make progress in life. This money from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation is the last push I need to give me the best possible position to start my medical career -debt free- with one less challenge on my