Personal Narrative: The Pledge Of Allegiance

One of the greater struggles in life is having to gather your belongings and move across the state into a different house. Packing your bags and moving 5,000 miles away to a different country is a lot harder. When I was only eight years old, I bid a farewell to my family and hoped on a plane from Sao Paulo to New York City. There, my step-father greeted my mother and I with a warm welcome and a long drive to Indiana. Although the transition from a city lover to a small-town girl was difficult, the obstacle that set me back the most was the language barrier. As I started school in the United States, I found myself to be very excluded from others. Not knowing the Pledge of Allegiance or understand anything in my classroom made me feel very homesick and embarrassed.
After months of feeling lonely, I became determined to work on my English and prove these kids wrong. The journey was extremely stressful, but I overcame the difficulties and soon enough my English improved, and what I thought was going to be the worst time of my life became a time where I was most proud of myself. I believe that this conversion encouraged me to be a hardworking and studious person. With such ambitions to succeed in my career, I am fully confident that no matter what hardships come my way throughout college, I will be able to not only overcome them but become a stronger person as