One day, when my mom told me that I was moving back to Taiwan, teardrops started to roll down my cheeks. Even though Taiwan was the place I was born, it always seemed estranged and unfamiliar to me. However, America, the county I moved to when I was five, felt like home to me. A significant part of my life in America was my church friends, especially a girl named Jennifer. She treated me like her little sister and took me everywhere she went. Before I left for Taiwan, she gave me stuffed dog that she named Amber. From that day on, this little object became something that help me remind of her and the place I call home.
Amber became an inseparable and important part of me. There are horrible days when everything goes wrong, but just by seeing Amber makes me feel so much better inside. It seems like she has this magical thing that makes me feel happier and my day better. Whenever I am feeling depressed or overwhelmed, I take her out of the cabinet. Just by putting her next to me, as if Jennifer was by my side, I would feel so much warmer inside. It feels like Jennifer is there for me and guiding me, just like the old days. It may seem that Amber is just a little useless object, but without her, there wouldn’t be anything for me to hang on to or help me remember the past. She is just a little stuffed animal, but she symbolizes Jennifer and America. Even though America is millions of miles away, but with Amber next to me, it seems just as close.
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Heyy Carol!!
ReplyDeletewhat a touching story... :)
i really liked the line: "Just by putting her next to me, as if Jennifer was by my side, I would feel so much warmer inside. " so sweet :)
for future improvement, i think that you could take "to me" off from "felt like home to me" as you have already used "to me" in your previous sentence
other than that... great essay!! Thanks for sharing! i really enjoyed it :)
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ReplyDeleteI like the quote "Even though America is millions of miles away, but with Amber next to me, it seems just as close" because it is very touching.
I think this quote needs improvement: "From that day on, this little object became something that help me remind of her and the place I call home." I think you should change "remind" into "reminds"
I agree with you! I got very depressed that I left America. I started to cry, too. :D
carol,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your reflective essay! I can relate to how you felt when you left America, becuase I felt the same way too when I had to move here. "Even though America is millions of miles away, but with Amber next to me, it seems just as close." I love this last sentence. It really helps to sum up how important the stuff animal was to you - very touching!
Throughout your story, you used "she" as the pronoun for the stuff animal, Amber, instead I think you should change "she to "it".("it" is used for objects) Overall, I liked it and how you put a lot of emotions into the essay. :)
-Amy
I remember the feeling when my parents told me i was going to move to taiwan too. You described your feelings very well in this essay. You show how much the stuffed animal means to you.
ReplyDeleteCarol! this was such a sad story :(
ReplyDeletei'm sure all of us can relate to it really well.
I really liked "Just by putting her next to me, as if Jennifer was by my side, I would feel so much warmer inside." because it was really touching :)
ummm, but "From that day on, this little object became something that help me remind of her and the place I call home. " sounded a little odd maybe you should use "From that day on, this little object became something that helped me remember her and the place I call home."
yeahh anyway i really liked your essay :)