My Life

HI, my name is Shirley Chen.  I am a Chinese immigrant from China and I have been here for almost three years.  I'm a sophomore in Hinsdale Central High School.  This is a great school.  I'm taking English 2, Geometry, World Cultures, Biology, etc.  World Cultures is the class that I'm in and writing this letter to you.  I like this class the best, because I get a chance to know different people from different cultures or religions.  And this is where I get to know you!  I'm in Art Club, where we can do artistic stuff.  We are repainting old furniture recently.  It's pretty fun.  I try-outed for badminton last year and fail, but I'm going to try again this year.  Wish me luck!

This is Lin Dan, a Chinese badminton champion at 2012 London Olympic.  I feel proud him, because I love badminton and he was born in my home town.    

My friends are mostly Chinese, but some of them are American.  Claire is my American friend and she is in my English class.  We know each other from first day of school.  We always talks about school,  and study together.  We are going to exchange Christmas gift on winter break.  isn't that exciting?  I'm looking forward to that.  Yu is my Chinese friend, I know her since seventh grade.  We also lived together for two years and went to the same elementary and high school together.     Although we don't live together anymore, but we can still see other during class period and lunch, which is nice.  

I'm living with my mom and cousin here.  I have no brother or sister, but I have five cousins and they are just like my brothers and sister.  During Chinese New Year, we usually gather up and have dinner together.  Chinese New Year in the United States is not that exciting compare to my hometown's.  However, I still like it, because I am not alone here.

Exchange Christmas gifts.

This is a Chinese New Year symbol, it means lucky.

I want to be a ESL teacher or an engineer in the future.  I want to be a teacher for ESL because I was a ESL student in my freshmen year.  I understand how it's feel to be a foreign student, I have to learn a whole new language, which is English, made me feel depressed sometimes, so I want to be a ESL students and help kids from other countries.  I also want to be a civil engineer because I heard a presentation on civil engineer before and it brought up my interest about it.   Civil engineer can work either on the field or in the office.  They come up with a plan of how to build a safe building.  I don't much about it though.  

Civil Engineer

Civil Engineer

I'm looking forward to know you!  

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