this is a Nigerian police collecting bribe from a commercial car driver.

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It is a very nice feeling to travel outside one country to a different country, for whatever reason, either studies or tourist. My home town country is Nigeria in West Africa, about fourteen to fifteen hours by fight, so you can imagine how far apart it is to united state of America. Having lived quite a very long time in Nigeria, my experiences now in the United States have countless. Some are positive while others aren’t; I will discuss just few differences in observed since arriving to Carbondale and how it contracts to back home Nigeria.
Firstly, I know this is basically what most people will think about, and that is food. The food here in Carbondale better still in the united state is completely and totally different from what I have been used back home. In united state pizza seems to be the order of the day, back at home we eat our local traditional food which is known as fufu and is eaten with soup of different kinds.
Secondly, the dressing in united state is quite different compared to back home. People in united state often dress formal and put on jeans and shirts regularly, back in western Africa and particularly Nigeria our dressing is much more cultural oriented, by dressing in Nigeria you can easily tell what state a person is from, but that is obviously not the way in the united states.
Having spent a couple of months in Carbondale I have been able to notice and observe this difference in comparison to my home country.

myself

MYSELF

Hello, it is me, Idris, born from a humble background.

Hail from northern Nigeria, a nation from sub-Saharan, Africa.

A nation of black, rich in abundant resources, human and minerals.

I am unique in being and want to explore my deepest potential.

I am a curious and inquisitive which are natural endowment in me and makes me outstanding.

I believe that I am carefully and wonderfully created by  my creature to fulfill destiny.

In fact, I am born to make impacts in peoples paths; I am still trying to reach the purpose of my creation.

To make a difference in the world that is dynamic and sophisticate requires a lot more.

First thing first, to rediscover myself and the power to improvise which is inherent in me.

I need to come closer to the purpose of creation than ever before in order to tap the strength and enter into the realm of the supernatural and do the impossibilities which no mere mortals can do.

God help me to be focus in my quest to discover my inner self.

My potential need to be exploited to the fullest for the sake of humanity.

In this critical stage in my life, I want to see what others cannot see and know whatever that i cannot be known.

That is me, and I cannot hide myself from this fact that keeps glaring on me to do something and leave a mark on the sand print of time.

So help me God.

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CHALLENGES AS A WRITER AND SPEAKER OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

People still encounter certain issues or problem even with the languages that they are very familiar to the. One of the things I have come to noticed in term of speaking the English language and writing, is the major differences which exist. I do not like to write a lot but one problem I observed in any academic writing is the problem of punctuation usage. Most at times, my use of punctuation marks hard to me even though it might be very easy to others is the comma. As easy as it is , it continues to keep me wondering if my usage of it is proper, sometimes, I end up omitting it completely without being  aware of it.

The second difficulty I experience in leaning English language is the writing style or commonly referred to as formals. There are three basis styles used in academic writing, APA, MLA and Chicago style. This has constantly become a nightmare to me because I really get it all mixed up and do not totally understand the different rules governing each of the writing styles. I end up doing it wrongly almost every time, which has affected some of my academic performances.

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