When I came to the united states I was unsure of how to conduct myself. Having lived in in Ethiopia many of the things that experienced here were quite bizarre to me. When i first entered the United states public school system i was greeted by people who genuinely wanted to help me succeed in what i was doing. Before enrolling in middle school i went to my area high school to continue my …show more content…
The most notable moment of my time there has to be my first day in english class. I remember having went through two or three periods before i got to that class and i did not have much of a problem how ever in my english class i was asked to introduce myself. I went on to say my name and where i was from and a few of my classmates had trouble pronouncing my name so i had to spell it out to them. Having lived in ethiopia where the standard english that is taught is british english I wasn't accustomed to how the letter “Z” was pronounced so i went on to spell my name “ E-Zedd-R-A”. This confused my peers who have lived most of their lives pronouncing “Z” as “Zee” . From that moment on i knew that i was not back home and i had to learn quickly to be at the level of the people who had spent their entire or most of their lives in the