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Thien Tran
Mr. Neuburger
Eng Comp 101-104
27 January 2013
Narrative Essay
Differences of the City
Bao Loc is a small town where I was born and grew up; it is located at the South of my
country, Viet Nam. When I was living there, it had both somewhat fun and boring. The
countryside has its own advantages that it is really quiet, spacious, and pure, however, there is no
place for entertainment, and the schools system is too small. Therefore, many people moved to
the city, Sai Gon, to take advantage of what the town was missing. My family was among the
people who chose the conveniences of the city.
When I lived in the countryside, I had some friends there; we have been friends for ten
years, and I lost touch with them after a few years moving to the big city. It is not the biggest but
the main city at the South of my country. At the time when I still lived in the country, we used to
have fun by going to the lake behind my house, racing the bike, or catching lizards. However,
those fun days were sometimes too short for me; Sometimes, I had to stay at home for a whole
day looking at the raining sky, and wished this was the city where there were plenty of
amusement parks, leisure centers. People can walk around the neighborhood to look at the tall
buildings like giant diamonds with ton of lights as we saw in the televisions. The day will come
soon which I could never thought it was real.
My parents had a sign to sell the house for years before someone was interested in it; I
and my sisters always thought that who would like to live at the small town since the city is more
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fun than any other places. Nonetheless, seniors are the one that want to leave the city life to live
in the countryside the most; they love the silence of it, the spaciousness, and the pure air which
can only be experienced in the countryside. On the other hand, my parents always told us that we
need to move to the city before we go to college. They wanted us to be able to get in the big
college with advanced equipment, the best teachers, and students who care about learning.
Moreover, my parents usually said that our town was small and people went to the fields all day,
and the local schools just required students to have average grades; therefore, almost everyone
often thinks that graduating high school was enough. Furthermore, many people have come back
from the city and opened their own companies, which was big at that time. Besides that, some of
my friends had already moved to the city before me.
Choosing a school in the city was harder than I thought; most schools required grades to
be over the average and I had never paid attention to since going to school. My parents had to go
to several places to find me a school so I could attend on time. It did not mean that my grades
were low but those schools all said the same thing; the grades for students who come from towns
were always required to be higher than those who study at schools in the city. Moreover, once
getting in school, I had to take another test to find a class that fits me. Almost every school in the
city has their students learning ahead time; they teach the students information that was a grade
ahead. Each class will have different levels, which depends on the ability of students on that
class. Therefore, teachers will have variety of ways to communicate their knowledge to students,
and usually students who graduated from classes with higher level will have better grades than
the others. So, I tried to get the highest scores so I could get in the best class of that school.
However, I was only able to get in the number three class, which was still good for me.
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Study hard, play hard is a thing that I used to hear from people in the city. There are
plenty of places to go. Sitting in the office all day, all most everyone wants to enjoy the pure air,
the peace and quiet in the shade of trees on a hot day. People can go to garden coffee with
bamboos and coconuts trees are planted around would make them felt like sitting somewhere in
the countryside. If people want to have a fun day, they could go to amusement parks, leisure
centers, shopping center, or the museums with tons of subjects to see. There are crowded,
animated, and lots of fun with swimming pool, hunting games, car racing, circus, clothes and
shoes with the newest fashion for people who like shopping; or they can learn about history of
thousands years ago, ethnic groups in the country at the museums.
However, the city is somewhat inconvenient. Imagine what would happen if someone
steps on a line of ants, and that was what the traffic was in the morning at the city; people try to
find their ways to get to schools or work. I would be late for school if I did not wake up at five in
the morning, even though my class started at eight, and it only took me ten minute to bike there.
When I still lived in the town, I would bike to school like people doing yoga in the morning, but
I had to race if I wanted to get to school on time at the city. Another thing was that houses in the
city are cramped. They follow each other without a space while in the old town, people had to
walk around to visit the neighbors. The city had no free space to play unless we had to pay for a
club to get a space to play soccer or anything needing a big place to play. Moreover, more and
more people move to the city put up the price of rent, foods, schools’ and hospitals’ fee, which
decreased in the quality of life of people who lived there.
Living in the countryside had its own advantages such as the environment, the space, and
the silence. However, moving to the city has given me the advantages of the location, places for
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entertainment, and the quality of education. Besides that, it also has problem about the traffic, the
air, and the noisiness.