Perosnal Writing: My Experience In The Navy This was happening about 10 years ago when I was first came to the United States. I was 13 years old at that time. I remembered correctly it was my first day at school, I was very excited to go to school in America, it was a big day for me since I came from a very poor country. I learned English from the beginning, the rest of the kids were all spoke English really well. They wanted to be my friends but we couldn’t understand each other, the only thing I could do was to smile and pretend like I was really happy. I really wanted to have friends but I couldn’t because I didn’t know how