Example Of My Personal Educational Experiences Essay

First times in everything always leave a mark that everyone carries with them for a very long time. The moment I landed in the United States, I was filled with nostalgia and very high expectations of life, in general. Schooling was part of what I looked forward to because I believed then that it was the most important thing to do while here, or so I was made to understand. Language was a major barrier and meeting people speaking English in a different way made things worse for me. I had been told that American English was simple and easy to use and understand, but that is not the exact picture that I met the first time I went to class.The first time I was in class can be equated to a journey to hell and back. All I did was picking few words in order to make meaning of what my peers and the professor said. An assignment was given to all of us to do a critical analysis of an essay presented to us. That is when all hell broke loose. I had no slightest idea of what a critical analysis was. Even after being explained to by a friend, I could not figure out how best to go about it. It is at that time that I felt I knew nothing and a bad idea for me to come to the United States.Different people have different perceptions of an item or idea and their interpretation and understanding lie in their imaginative mind. Just like Percy says in the article Loss of the Creature, it is impossible to assume one interpretation to be the perfect or correct one, because there are many imaginative minds out there that think and see things differently.