... styles are totally different and you do things an American child has never heard of. Girls, Drugs/Alcohol, and parties were the BIG three no no's. Studying is something you have to do constantly even if you don't have any work to study. At the end I had to deal with racism and stereotyping that ... is what I had to live with every day it was exhausting and very very annoying. Another area where Desi mentality wouldn't fail my parents is in studying. When they went to school in Pakistan they had to study day and night out of the textbook and still flunk the test and then they would study ...

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... my sudden change to my principal. The principal called my grandmother to inform her about this academic low performance. I felt guilty that my grandmother was already told. At home she sat me down and I warned me. Thinking about my future made me cried heavily and finally, I told myself by deciding to study really hard, to be the head not the tail ... , because I was going to restart a new life in a private high school for the second time it was an overwhelming experience for me. From that, I learned a valuable lesson in my life, studying hard and putting behind all distractions were now...

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