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ID:121132
조형우
조형우
I was invited to Camp named CTY which was held
in Luthern College, U.S., when I was 3rd grade in Elementary school.
Therefore I had to fly to L.A. alone in young age. Even though flight to L.A.
might seem easy, flying 12hours alone in that age was very stressful to me.
After 12hours of stressful flight I have finally arrived to Luthern college. I
did not recognize that numerous hardships will be waiting in this moment.
During the second day of camp, I had influenza by mistakenly eating noxious
plants. I had three roommates, and all three of them were Jewish. They woke me
up frequently in midnight since they were not allowed to turn on the lights in
certain period of time for religious region. This made me more difficult to
adapt to the twelve hours time difference, which made my disease aggravate.
Moreover, I did not have friend to console me at that time. Thus, I was sick,
could not adapt to the time difference and did not have friend. Not to mention
that there was sports program, parties and numerous extracurricular activities,
what I could only do was to study in the lecture since I was extremely sick and
didn’t have friend.
My Room Assistant has advised me to try to get
along with my roommates when he recognized my situation. He told me that I was
not capable of getting along with friends since I was feeling inferior compared
to friends. Actually, I was feeling inferior since my friends were not only
taller than me but also was good at sports. By following advice of my Room
assistant I first started to get along with my roommates first. When I started
conversation with them, they listened to me carefully and also asked me about
Korean culture. Sharing culture allowed us to understand each other well which
led me to become best friend with my roommate Ari. Since Ari really liked
basketball, he asked me to play it together. I played basketball with Ari, and
I naturally built relationship with other friends who played basketball. Thanks
to Ari, I had a lot of friends which made camp enjoyable.
The time passed so fast, so that the last day
of the camp came so early. When I was saying farewell to friends, I thought
that camp would have been more exciting if I made friends earlier. On the other
hand, I could experience diverse cultures and I recognized the importance of
self esteem. The camp’s purpose was to teach diverse subjects to students, but
the camp presented me more valuable experience.
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