New Journey

The images of my family sending me off from the airport and the whole journey to United States from Malaysia are still fresh in my mind. Time past really fast, I am staying in United States for almost one month and I found that there are many differences in this country compare to the place where I belong.


In the social aspect, I found that the way of people interact in US is different from my home country. People in this country are friendly and it is out of my expectation. The first day I moved into my dorm, my roommate bought me a Wild berry Pepsi after I told him that I never see this kind of Pepsi in my home country. “Hi, how are you doing?" can be heard every day around the campus. Everyone would like to greet others even they do not know each other well. In Malaysia, people would not greet someone they do not recognize. People will just walk away without bothering the person that pass by.
Something different about American students and Malaysia students are the style of study. As what I can see in other classes, Americans students would like to lift their hands up to ask question and have discussions on some topics. Back to Malaysia, students rather to keep silence in the class and find out the answers by themselves even they had difficulties in studies. When lecturer asked any questions, they are shy to raise their hands, worry that their answers are wrong or others will laugh at them if they ask too much question.

Even though in different country, there are few things that let me feel like I am in Malaysia. Firstly, the main thing that gave me a deep impression in United States is the society. People came from different country and belongs to different races still can stay together forming a harmony and peaceful society. Students from United States, China, Vietnam, Japan, Korea and so on can be friends to each other and hang out together same as what happen in my country where we have three big races, Malays, Indians and Chinese sharing one country. We blend our culture together and formed Malaysia which is a country with diverse culture.

Another similarity is participation of outdoor activities and societies in school. We have a lot of functions and events that bring student together in our country same as what happen in UWEC. Students in UWEC like to join much kind of activities too rather than facing books all the time, become a bookworm.