Premium Content A Country That Has Brought the World to Me
by Anonymous - September 03, 2002
Write a personal statement on a subject that illustrates who you are as an individual.
For example, you may choose to write on a social issue
about which you are passionate, an experience that has greatly influenced your life or taught you a valuable lesson, or about a challenge you have overcome. These are only suggestions, however; the choice of topic is yours.
"Saudi Arabia? That's a country Daddy? Where is it? Is it going to be like it is here? Are there going to be playgrounds and ice cream?"
Those were just a few of the thoughts that began circulating through my seven- year old mind. I was born in upstate New York and raised in Maryland, yet of Lebanese origin. Out of nowhere, I learned that I would…
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