Veeti Heikkinen
English, Period (G)
Jennifer Guarino
11/05/2015

Sookans Future

     I think that Sookan will stay in U.S. at least until she graduates. She is struggling at school for the first year, but later on, she will do better.
     The reason why she struggles at her studies is that she hasn’t got proper education in Korea and she doesn’t speak good English, so she needs to spend more time to study in a foreign language, than she would send on her native language. Once she starts to learn the language, she will get better grades, and she doesn’t have to spend so much time on her studies. This allows her to spend more time with friends. The more she has free time, the more she starts to enjoy and appreciate life in U.S..
     She will stay friends with Ellen. They don’t become better friends, because their natures are so different. Ellen is really outgoing and likes to talk all the time, while Sookan is a little quiet and likes to have deeper conversations. With Marci she becomes even better friends. Marci and Sookan decides to be roommates for next year. Ellen and especially Marci helps Sookan to get through her studies. Ellen helps Sookan more with the American culture, getting along with other people and speaking English. Marci gives her help more with the actual studies.
     I believe that Sookan will find one more friend that she becomes really good friends with. I think that her new friend is probably putting a lot of effort in her studies. She isn’t very social and doesn’t get along with other people so well, but she isn’t bullied. This girl probably doesn’t talk much, until you get to know her better. She might have strong and good opinions about everything, but she is just too shy to share them. Sookan might help her to get along, like Ellen and Marci helped her.
     The more Sookan starts to get along in the U.S., the more she starts to forget about Korea. Her mother is a little upset about the fact that Sookan doesn’t miss Korea, but her sister gets really angry at Sookan, for not worshipping Korea and its culture. She reminds Sookan constantly, that Sookan needs to become a nun in Korea. Her sister thinks that it is really important to help the poor through religion. She doesn’t want to become a nun, but she is afraid of telling it to her sister, because she is afraid of her response. Sookan feels sad for letting her family’s expectations down, but she is happy to get to live in the U.S..
     She continues to babysit Bennett’s kids. She spends a lot of time with their family, and this helps her to get through the homesickness she is having. Sookan doesn’t think that the Bennett family is some kind of replacement for her own family, but it is relieving for her to know, that there is someone who cares and looks after her.
     Even though she misses her family and many things in Korea, she starts to like America more and more when time goes by. She kind of wants to go back home, but she prefers to stay in U.S. and later on she might even want to stay in America after she graduates from college.