Life in the future

I used to think about my life in the future, but until now it is a dubious scheme. Medical major is my favorite because I would like to take care and help everyone overcome the physical pain and I will establish the goal for coming period. However, in order to achieve that purpose, I have to experience the challenges and risks such as shocked culture as well as language. As you know, languages play an important role in all position and it is a tool to leading to the succeed of the people. This means I have to listen, speak, read, and write in English fluently. It is extremely difficult for me because I have just come here for two years, and my native language is not English. I am so stressful while I study English. However, I recognize that English is a language, so I should imitate the way that they communicate and write through practicing and reading books. These are the best ways to become a success. Then I can speak and hear well so that I feel more confident. I think I will keep carrying out my plans, and majors which I adore it. Moreover, I should subdivide the immediate mission that I can do in the short period time, and effort to finish them on my schedule. After that, I will move on to the next task in order to the routine was the same every day, with nothing to relieve the monotony. Finally, I hope I can do it well, reach my dream and target.

Library habit

Library

I have a student ID, so I also have a library card because it is in my students ID.  I often go to the library after I finish my class on an alternating day. The differences between libraries in the USA and in my country is the USA’s libraries is bigger than Vietnam’s ones. Moreover, fewer conference facilities and tools lead to the disadvantage of Vietnam’s libraries such as books, conditions, technologies, spaces, and activities club for study. In Vietnam, libraries are not only located in universities but also located in towns. Although people want to get as much as professional knowledge as from many sources like the Internet or social networking, using the library is an impossible mission. I really like libraries in the USA because they have good environments to focus, a lot of books to study, high technologies to research. Moreover, there are many activities in the library at Lone Star such as Academic Success Center, Book Club, Computer Workshops, ESL Outreach (Talk time), Job & career Workshops, Life: Learning, Inspiration, Fellowship, and enrichment, Spanish Conversation Club, etc. Especially, in Academic Success Center, a lot of tutor for each major like Math, English, Physical, Biology help students understand their subjects which they get problems while they study.  Overall, the success of students always has the companionship of the Academic Success Center.

Reading habits

My reading habits have changed over the years. As a child i had more time to read than an adult. because i just studied and read books after school. even though my reading habit preferences have changed long time ago, i still enjoy it as much as i was a child. I read almost every night before i go to sleep because i can imagine the stories that i read and easy to fall asleep. Either i read by paper or e-book. It depends on my convenience where i am and what i get such as reading book in the library and e-book in publics. i always find everything to read like fiction, biographies as well as spiritual books, sometimes, i surf social networking to read someone’s short story and their sharing. In my home language i often read information relating to the life and health because i want to access the information existing and impacting to my relatives directly. Beside in English i loved reading fictional books and i believe it was because i had such a creative imagination of my own as well as i could draw a picture in my mind everything that i read.

Think about the writing classes

All the writing in my life has gotten a lot of experiences. It is also really difficult things for the person without literacy skills like me because of poor memories, I could not get more ideas as well as structures of the writing for my own writing. In the first of essay, I had scored C with many teacher’s comments, of course, I was really sad and disappointed in myself. More disappointed when teacher’s feedback complained about incoherent sentences and bad handwriting. However, I did not give up and quickly forgot these mistakes as soon as possible, moreover, I read as much as books, taking notes for my own words. Honestly, thanks to teacher’s feedback, I could understand my own shortcomings and correct it. In my opinion, The most helpful feedback that I think is detailed comments as well as references. Nevertheless, there is a few problematic feedback like no comment or short comments because I could not recognize my weakness besides I could not get teacher’s knowledge that conveyed for me.

Think about the writing classes

All the writing in my life have gotten a lot of experiences. It is also really difficult things for person without literacy skills like me because of poor memories, I could not get more ideas as well as structures of the writing for my own writing. In the first of essay, I had scored C with many teacher’s comment, of course, I was really sad and disappointed in myself. More disappointed when teacher’s feedback complained about incoherent sentences and bad handwriting. However, I did not give up and quickly forgot these mistakes as soon as possible, moreover, I read as much as books, taking notes for my own words. Honestly, thanks to teacher’s feedback, I could understand my own shortcomings and correct it. In my opinion, The most helpful feedback that I think is detailed comments as well as references. Nevertheless, there is a few problematic feedback like no comment or short comments because I could not recognize my weakness beside I could not get teacher’s knowledge that conveyed for me.

Culture Shock

In my situation, I got a lot of experienced “culture shock” in the United States. Because I came from the developing country, so the main means of transport is motorbike and wheels are just for the rich. However, when I came to the United States, my first surprise is that most of the people traveled by car, so motorbikes are really rare. As a result, I had taken 2 months for practicing in order to drive a car because of three times fall. The big challenges and problems that I had to face were the language barrier. Although I was learned English when I was a child, I cannot speak and listen as a native person until now. I do not know how to learn as fluency as the native person, but I will study day by day and step by step to enhance my skills. Welfare benefits and food safety was wonderful in the US that I did not expect before I came here. And I applied to college, I was directed to receive financial aid from the state. Moreover, the food in the US is really fresh and clear origin. In my opinion,  Genetically-Modified foods are no longer produce in the US because there may be risks involved in the genetic engineering of foods.