I can’t believe it. Right now I’m on my senior year, how each year, since the beginning of my high school, my perfectly laid plans for myself have unavoidably deteriorated. When I entered my first year of high school I had aspirations of being a web designer. Being a web designer is something I have wanted to be since my teacher in vocational high school explained what web designers do. I was even taking programming script to help with the web design data base. That was very hard for me. Now, here I am, my senior year in America. It’s like a dream for me to be here, because I never thought I would have this opportunity.
Yes, I am an exchange student from Indonesia. I got a scholarship to come to the United States for my senior year. It was fun getting here, and it has been fun being here. I couldn’t believe I was coming to the United States, or that I’ve been here 5 ½ months already. Even though I can’t graduate here, this is a great experience for me. I’m still glad I can do my senior year here because not everyone in my country can easily get a scholarship to another country. When I came here my English was not very good, so sometimes I was able to get what people were saying and sometimes I wasn’t. Sometimes my friends at school couldn’t understand what I said. That was funny though. They were, and still are, very nice, and our friendship has gotten better every day because we help each other.
The Curriculum in this state is very different then in my country. I like school here so much more. We take the same class every day, which means we can focus on studying that subject, and that supports what we want to do in the future. In my country we go to school almost every day, even on Sunday. Usually the students have to go on Sunday to do extracurricular activities like sports, and to earn extra credit in some classes. Also, we don’t have summer vacation, just short breaks throughout the year. So, since I have been in school all year before, and now in school here, I kind of feel different, like I have less pressure.
