My name is Jhoselyn Escobar, most people
call me Jho. I’m 20 years old and be living in New York for around 2 years. I’m
Ecuadorian and came to the city only to persuade my dream of become a
successful business women. The moment I decided to come and study overseas whit
out my family or friends changed my life. It was extremely hard, but now I’m a
strong independent person.
Overall I’m a fun young girl, friendly,
opened minded and studious . One of my sayings is “There’s time for
everything”, meaning family, school and parties. I think these are the three
main elements to have a balance life.
Even though, I miss my family they are the
ones who encouraged me to go ahead and finish school. I’m the first one to go
to college and moreover to an overseas college, so I want to make them proud finishing
my career and succeed in my professional field. In the future, I picture myself
as a successful business woman, who is doing marketing/advertising internationally.
I want to open business opportunities between the Latino community and the rest
of the world.
I think one of the best choices I made so
far was coming to New York .I must admit that the moment I came here I got a “culture
shock”. I used to live in a small city, in a third world country (Ecuador). It was
totally different from the capital of the world, New York .Suddenly my mind opened.
I realized and learned that there are different and amazing cultures in the
entire world, that even though we have our differences we are very much alike
as well. Food can be different, but we all have to eat. Customs can be different,
but we all have to dress. Language can be different, but we all have to communicate.
I started to see the world whit different eyes. I could understand every difference
in ethnicities, but overall we are all the same, we all are humans. We all look
for love and success, maybe some of us will achieve it differently, but at the
end I think we all have the same purpose. In my view if I didn’t came to New York,
I never could be able to see the world as I see it now.
Hi Jhoselyn, this is Puishan. I'm happy for you because you made a right decision to study away from your own country. I'm sure your parents are proud of you because I know you got the scholarship from BMCC.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that moving to other country without your family is difficult because everything is just like brand new. You have to get used to the culture, language, food, customs, and even the subway system. I have been there. It actually took me a while to get used to the country. But I'm glad that I made the right decision to live in the most powerful country in the world too because this is a chance for me to experience something I didn't have a chance to experience with before. You will never truly experience other cultures until you have been exposed to it. This is just like a new chapter of our journey of life.
Hi Jhose. THis is Haruka. I enjoyed reading your blog and totally agree with your idea of life. If we are in our own county, people have mostly same character or common sense culturally. But once we get out from the place, there is people who also have different character and common sense culturally. Understanding each other is difficult tasks for immigrant sometimes. The textbook also says that an understanding of the world based only on our own individual experience may not be helpful in unfamiliar circumstances. To operate in such a diverse society we need to understand not only how we make sense of the world. but how other people do so as well. We have so many chance to know different counties s' society or historical backbrand in meeting new friends. It would be helpful for you to be a successful business woman in world wide someday. I hope you can be the one who you want to be in the future.
ReplyDeleteHey Jho,Im Douglas and you just really inspire me to stop being scare and just go out into the world and accomplish my dreams. I cant believe you really move to a whole another country to better your life that right there shows me your determination to be successful and just to want more out of life. You are so right in so many ways we are different but in the end we are really so much alike we do have to eat dress and we all want success and love Thanks for showing me that!! and I wish you the best on your journey to success!!
ReplyDeleteyou couldn't have said it any better, different languages, customs, food but yet we still go for that same goal in life. im glad you took the opportunity to come to New York, you weren't afraid to open doors and i believe you will be able to open many more and you will be able to get whatever you want cause you take chances. wish you best in your sucess
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