Pros and Cons of moving to America as compared to Southeast Asia Moving to the United States is a dream for many families living abroad‚ especially those living in third world countries. For most‚ United States holds the keys to a better future‚ higher living standard‚ and of course freedom. As a twenty year old‚ southeast Cambodian and was fortunate enough to move here‚ I would like to offer the advantages of living in the United States as compare to living in Cambodia. Education If you are
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school‚ excited to tell my friends the news: I was moving from New Jersey to Phoenix‚ Arizona! After I brought my friends up to date‚ I proudly displayed my new disposable camera. Together we took many pictures‚ some of them meaningful and some comical. There were pictures of myself smiling and giggling with my friends and some of my teacher’s feet. As the moving date was slowly approaching‚ I began to feel resentment. I started hating the idea of moving to a new unknown place where I would have no friends
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Moving Day The summer before my senior year was going to be the best one yet. Lying out in the hot summer air‚ going out with friends till one in the morning‚ sleepovers all week long‚ summer was going to be amazing! Not long into my summer vacation my mom had brought up the subject of us moving once again. It hadn’t really surprised me that she was bringing it up because I vividly remember her talking about it earlier in the year. She had been wanting to move for quite some time‚ always saying
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Why Do People Move Away From Hawaii? People are led to believe that Hawaii is paradise. Living is easy‚ weather is nice all year around‚ and the locals are friendly. This may be true but yet many still choose to move away from the islands to start a new life in the mainland. Some may say this is odd‚ but that is before they understand the reasoning behind it. It is difficult to support a family financially well in Hawaii‚ traffic is one of the worst in the country‚ and the crime for drugs is huge
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Let’s take a walk‚ close your eyes and simply listen to your surroundings. I want you to think about old Hawaii nei. I want you to wake up before the sun comes up. See the blessings all around you. Look up at the Mauna‚ as many of us look at the Mauna as guidance to find peace of mind in the morning to start a positive day. As we look up we think about the crisp cool air. We think about the mana (power) that the Mountain holds. We feel strength in ourselves from the spirit of the aina. That strength
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which caught me off-guard since his voice was usually calm and relaxed. As soon as the words processed in my head‚ I realized exactly what this meant. Moving? To Florida? That meant leaving behind all my friends‚ moving to a place I don’t know‚ packing up my whole word into a cardboard box--do they realize what they’re doing to me? “NO! I am not moving‚ I can’t just leave all my friends‚ I can’t just leave school with only two months left‚” I said angrily. I got up and stormed to my room‚ I slam the
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better than here. Melanie would be part of that 90%. She has lived here for all her life‚ which sums up to be 18 years. Now look at it from a military child’s perspective. It could be the best place they have ever lived. For Sydney‚ this is the case. Moving from Kansas to Nebraska‚ she struggled to find a place to call "home." But for the both of them‚ they later find out that "home" was with them all along. Kansas is oddly similar to Nebraska in the sense that it is all corn and wheat fields. The
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I remember the exact feeling I experienced when my mom told me we were moving to America. I felt as if time had stopped. I did not know what to expect. What will it be like? Will I able to adjust to the pace of life? Will I make friends? Questions which plagued me; but no one had the definitive answers. I lived in Vietnam for the first eleven years of my life. The moment I move to America‚ my whole world changed. America is my greatest adventure and opportunity. Having never traveled to a foreign
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grandparents lived within an hour and a half from us and my cousins were only thirty minutes away. I went to a small church‚ which just so happened to be my school‚ and I lived in a small town. I had all of this until the fateful day when we moved to Texas. Moving to Texas was gave me a completely different outlook on life. I was coming from a place where the average temperature was about 75 to a place where it was warm all year‚ including the winter. In Oregon I was able to experience all four seasons; spring
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My first time to Hawaii went like this. The first 5 hours I was on the plane I was feeling extremely sick and tired and felt like throwing up. After all that torture we finally got off of the plane and tried to find our hotel. We got lost for about 30 minutes until we actually found it. After we got into our hotel‚ I noticed that they didn’t have a refrigerator or a microwave‚ so every time we wanted to eat‚ we had to go buy some food. After we unpacked all of our stuff‚ we went out to the shopping
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