David's Live in America

By David form Ghana

American life is pretty fun, but not easy, especially living with someone you don’t know for the first time. At the beginning it felt sour but as days go on it sweetens like sugar and you wish you could continue to stay with them for the rest of your life. But you have to go back home and see your missed family and friends, share with them your experience, and hope some part of it will change their perception of going to new places for the first time.

The first day I arrived at my new home, I asked myself, “Is this where I am going to stay for the rest of the year?” Anytime I go to bed I usually lay for about an hour thinking about the people I am living with and thinking about home and my family I left to be here. But as days went by I realized I was becoming used to them and now they really feel like a family to me. This is what prompted me to write. It does not matter what color a person is, how he/she is shaped, whether disabled or able, it does not matter, he/she is a human being and that is the most important thing.

Weeks later, I had my first day at school. I didn’t have any friends to talk to, but fortunately for me I made a few friends in class whom I had lunch with. As the days went on, everybody became interested in being my friend. They wanted to know about my country and how different my culture is. I was really happy to meet them and to share my culture with them and in turn learn some of theirs. I was asked a lot of questions, some good and some bad, and in this case you have to have some patience to tolerate them, because they don’t know what your country is like.

The hard things I had to adjust to were the food and the weather, the food tasted totally different from the food in my country but I tried my best to get used to it. Hence I started trying so many different foods. I began to like many of them. As for the weather...one morning I woke up to go to school and when I opened the door to go to the bus stop, I saw some white fluffy substances suspending in the air, so I freaked out and kind of screamed, which made everyone wake up in the house. They thought something happened to me but realized what the matter was and laughed throughout the day. I was happy to put smiles on my host parents whenever they thought about that moment.

I experienced everything I could lay my hands on, the first week I arrived I joined the volleyball team in my school. After the season was over, I joined the school’s play and that really made me have a lot of friends, I took some bass guitar lessons and this Spring Break I am going to participate in a church camp, and the purpose of it is to help the needy.

What I have learned through my experience is the ability to express myself in front of anybody I come across, which I used not to be able to do because of my shyness. And now I believe, I am cleaned from this shyness and I will always remember this throughout my life.