Wednesday, November 12, 2014


Makan Seraj

English 1301

11/02/2014

Winning the Lottery

There is a beautiful city in my country, the capital city and it’s called Tehran.
Tehran is the biggest and the most crowded city of Iran. This beautiful city is my home town. 32 years ago I was born and 27 years I lived in this city and country. Tehran is one of the most beautiful cities in Iran. It’s the home town of different people and different life style. Tehran is the center of fashion in Iran where you can see a lot of rich people with expensive and luxury cars, houses and apartments.
 

Photo of Tehran Shemran courtesy Wikipedia

Five years ago, I was informed that I have been selected between thousands of people from all over the world to move to the U.S by winning the green card lottery. The opportunity for every human being to live and work and study in one of the most beautiful, modern and civilized countries in the world. The chance was unbelievable for me and I couldn’t even think about living in another country by myself but fortunately I didn’t have the usual problems and difficulties of other people which is the language.

 

Moving to a different country with different life style, people, nationalities and languages is every migrant’s nightmare. But fortunately I have a flexible personality I started finding friend and socializing with non-Persian people soon, I tried to find and hangout with my American friends’ more than Persian people. This is the short story of my new life, short story of my five year new life. In this five years I had a lot of ups and downs. College was the most important thing in my head, I have bachelor’s degree in English translation from my country and my long term goal is getting my masters in MBA and finding a well-paid. My first job was working in a Lebanese restaurant, but I couldn’t stay there for a long time and I started working in retail as a sales associate. After four years, I became the sales manager and soon I’m going to get promoted as the store manager at Lacoste.




 Now I live with myself in a small apartment in Plano, on Preston road and 121 highway. It’s called Tribeca apartments. It is a big apartment complex with different units, big ones with a beautiful views and a patio and the small ones with a regular apartment view and without patio. There are 400 units in our apartment complex. There is one of the most famous apartment complex around here because of two things. The first thing is it’s very close to Walmart and Sam’s club. And the other thing is, there is a big and beautiful swimming pool in this complex which is very popular the pool parties that the residents have in summer.
 
 

           My apartment has one bedroom and it is not very big, I have a queen bed with two night stands and two lamps on top of them. There are two huge posters of Calvin Klein female models on my walls, one on top of my bed and the other is on the wall next to the door. My bathroom has two doors, one opens in the hallway and the other one opens in my bedroom. There are also two for my favorite things in my bedroom on the wall. One of them is an Indian face and the other one is an Indian axe. I decorated my apartment with all modern furniture and all black and white,
Hanging out with my friends Mike, MJ and my girlfriend Beth, going out shopping and going to my dad’s friend’s house for barbeque and small gatherings is my fun. Family and my parents are the most important things in my life, and the most fun place that I can stay is in my parents’ house with my mom and dad and my two sisters. Life is like hell without them.