Sometimes You Need to Take a Step Back to Move Forward
Somebody once told me, "Sometimes you need to take a step back to move forward." And I will never forget that sentence. In 2017, my family and I immigrated to the United States. Two months later, I found a job at an Asian seafood market. During this time, someone advised me that my age was still eligible for high school, and high school would prepare me for college. I was 19 years old at a time. That person told me that sometimes I need to take a step back to move forward. One week later, although I had already graduated from high school in Vietnam, I decided to go back to U.S. high school. Back to school, I felt extremely difficult to communicate with my teachers and classmates. I was unclear in the words and sentences I constructed, and most importantly, I did not understand what people're speaking. "Can you repeat that, please?" "Could you say that again, please?". These were the most frequent sentences I spoke of at the time. Sometimes people had t...