Personal Statement Tour Guide - 1534 Words

It is mid-summer of 1968 and I was allowed to go back to Serbia to visit my friends and family who I have missed dearly since moving to America. Sadly my friendship to Elena has ended. I did not want it to end, but she decided to end it over a pointless reason. She ended our friendship due to the fact that I did not want here to come to Serbia with me to visit my friends and family, and for some reason she was upset about this. It’s nothing personal, it’s just that I have not seen them in a year, all I wanted was time to be with them by myself, and not to have to play â€Å"tour guide† with because she would want to sightsee and have me take her. Most of my time here has not been enjoyable due to me replaying are the last conversion in my head,†¦show more content†¦I’ve heard that it is beautiful, primary in the summer and what better way to explore a beautiful country than with your best friend? Now I am stuck in Rodina-Mat (Russia), where the ho t sun is most likely sunburning me badly. I know I seem clingy, but Brilla was the only real friend I have made in America and she knows that. I wish I could recant most of the things that I said to her, but I cannot change the past and I and do not want to be friends with someone that focuses on herself before someone else’s feelings. I do not want to be friends with someone as selfish as Brilla. My friends took me to the movies to try to cheer me up. They even took me to watch Ghosts-Italian Style that starred Sophia Loren, but it was no use, I was as sad as I was before I left Serbia. I went back to my old home where I could smell my mother making her famous Pljeskavica, a Serbian dish of different meats ground into a patty. It’s a Serbian national dish, but my mother makes so much differently than how it is usually made and somehow gives it sweet, tangy, taste to it. After I left Serbia, things have gotten better for my parents, such as my father got a promotion an d now runs a small part of the artillery factory that he works at. They were even able to purchase a television. Life has improved for them after I left, but they say that I still am not allowed to move back to Montenegro, because despite the new changes that have been made, Montenegro is still a dangerous place to