Good Example Of Becoming An Adult Essay

I was born on Feb. 9th, 1995. I grew up in Tianjin, China. My family was not very rich, but it was better than well-off family. My family had only one child, a daughter. My dad always wanted a boy. Unfortunately, I’m a girl. As a result, my dad was rearing me by boy’s way. My dad often bought boy’s clothes for me. I looked like a girl, neither looks nor character.
Being 11 years old, I had my first time to play truant hockey. In my memory, it happened in Chinese class. I forgot to do my homework. The Class had four groups and I was the group leader of one of them. The teacher let the group leaders check the other students’ homework. I was afraid to tell the teacher that I hadn’t done the homework. Meanwhile, another group’s leader asked me to check her homework. In exchange, she thought she would check mine. I had to tell her that I hadn’t done my homework. So, everyone got to know that I hadn’t done my homework. I felt extremely embarrassed. It was the result of a wrong decision I made. At that time, my parents didn’t have time to drive me to the school. So I had an uncle who used to take me to the school. After that day, I called my uncle and told him that my parents would take me to school in a few days. Finally, three days later, the teacher called my parents. This is how my parents found out. They talked to me for a long time. My mom started to cry. I had made a promise to my mom that was “I will not let this kind things happen again.”
After that, I didn’t leave school at all. My mom’s tears let me grow up at that time. But I had another bad habit that my parents didn’t find out. When I was a junior in high school, I was afraid of senior study life. Maybe most people don’t know this, but Chinese senior school study life is very hard. Students stay at school from 7:00a.m to 9:30p.m. Students also have a lot of homework that need to be done after school. I dislike that kind of study way. So I talked to my parents. I told them I wanted to go abroad for study. I believed that I would like America and would love to study there. My parents didn’t say “yes” or “no”. My dad let me think about it and write an essay to analyze the pros and cons side of going abroad. Finally, my parents agreed me to go abroad. And they had talked to me. They told me this was my last chance to avoid troubles and however hard it is in America, I have to keep going.
I have been living in American for about 2 years. I live with my friends. I can cook dinner by myself. I can also make my own decisions. I can drive to anywhere I want to go. Maybe when I first came to America, it was not easy. In my first year, I lived in a homestay. They were nice, but they weren’t my parents. I couldn’t hang out with my friends, because they had work. I was really sad at that time. Last year, I transferred from West Palm Beach to Pasadena. I think it was a right decision.
Since I have been here, I have rented a house with my friends. I also bought a great car. Everything that happened in my life, I had to face it and solve it. I was not a baby girl anymore. I could handle everything by myself. I felt like I am an adult. After I went out alone, I became stronger and was not afraid of facing difficulties.