The prompt: Discuss an accomplishment or event, formal or informal, that marked your transition from childhood to adulthood within your culture, community, or family.
I started my essay but haven’t finished. I am talking about when I went to China when I was 13 with just my younger sister and how I bought a Chinese school uniform since everyone else wore these everyday, everywhere. Whenever I would be in public everyone would stare and wonder if I just didn’t go to school. But I was going to write how after getting that uniform and wearing it that I felt strangely accepted. A feeling that isn’t very strong when I go to school in Missouri with very few Asian-Americans. After talking about that, I was going to say that this made me become more accepting of my Chinese heritage.
But then I looked at the prompt again and it says “within your culture, community, or family”… This event was more my own perception of when I became an “adult”. Also, I’m unsure about my overall topic anyways…it’s kinda weird but I can’t get it out of my head. I’ve tried coming up with other topics but this one keeps on coming back up…