Personal Statement

Personal Statement 1:
I have two older sisters, one brother, and one parent. My dad left my mom when i was just a little girl. My mom has always been there for me to push me through the tough times. Once i reached Sixth graded, life got more tough. Drama is school and at home started happening. I felt like there was no one there for me anymore. Everything went downhill as i grew up more, i gained a lot of more friends, but they only knew me as the girl that liked to joke around a lot. I like to joke around because it keeps my mind off of all my troubles. I tried to not take anything to seriously anymore because i never wanted to be let down again. The teachers thought of me as the girl that never listens and was always stubborn to the instructions. I felt like friends were the only thing there for me now.

My mom stopped trying to push me because she said she was to tired of trying to keep me up in life. She had to work two jobs and barely got enough sleep. I never wanted to bother her or ask her for anything because i knew that she worked her hardest to raise four kids. My aunt also helped a lot in the cooking because she knew that we had nothing to eat for dinner. Whenever i am in a bad time in life, i go and talk to my toy lion. His name was Bushy. He was my closest friend that i could trust, but then again, he also was not real. He was there when i cried every time i needed to cry.

Coming into high school was exciting and scary, i did not know if i would ever fit in. It took me a long time to fit into my middle school, even though i went to school with the same people for seven years. When i was in high school, the environment felt unusual, everybody acted like they already knew each other and i did not even know one person. Again, i was the shy and quiet girl that no one talked to much but did not hate. i felt like a nobody, like there was no one there to tell how i feel to anymore.

So when i get older, I always want to be the person their to listen to peoples problems. I want people to know that there might not be anyone they know to listen to their or problems, but there is always someone else to listen. There should always be someone that would not judge the way you think or the way you feel. Everybody has problems in their life and i want to be the one that would not let them hold in their feelings until they explode. I always felt like my life was not the best and just needed someone to listen. I want to be that person. The person that people can trust me enough to tell me about any problems they have. Even if it is so dark,evil, or scary that they could not tell anyone else and i could be the one helping them.

Personal Statement 2:
A good quality that i have that i am proud of is that when i study and know what i want to do, i actually put my mind into what i want and would try to achieve it. Sometime it would be hard to know what i want because it is very hard to decide about what i want. When i ever decide what i want then i would always try me best to know anything possible to succeed my goal. people may always think that i am very lazy and slow at getting the job done, but when i am actually interested in what i am doing, then i would do a good job. I am also proud of being Vietnamese. People may have problems of being what they are because of the racism around them, but i do not mind at all.

I am proud of what race i am because i believe that even though we are all different, we are still the same in the way we are. That’s why i am part of a program called “Asian Pacific Island Youth Promoting Advocacy & Leadership” (AYPAL), they try to start ethnic studies in school so people can learn more about the people around them instead of just the American History. people need to learn that American history is not more important than your own history because your own history is part of your background and it helps show who you are and who you have became to who you are right now. People should know the different traditions that they have in their own culture. There are many different type of things in a culture that could be interesting to know about. Many people like me learn about their culture at home because they do not teach it in schools. From home i learned the many different types of food, clothing, and dances that they do traditionally. I feel that if you learn about your own culture, you can always pass it own to your own children and also teach other people about your culture or other people’s culture too. Learning this makes me believe that it could reduce racism around the world because even when people have different ways that they celebrate their holidays. We all act, feel, and think the same way.

It helps me be the person i am today because i am a person that does not like people being rude like racism. So i would like to teach other people to change the way they offend people and start thinking differently about the way they insult each other.