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作文美国的环境 【篇一：美国学生优秀作文】 美國大學生作文範例欣賞 subject:harvard application 3 prompt: harvard, international experience: a visit to kenya a visit to rural kenya at the end of july of ? 95, i boarded a plane that would take me from my home in cincinnati, ohio, to nairobi, kenya. my parents had always wanted to take our family abroad, but when my mother signed a contract to work for the u.s. agency for international development in kenya, plans materialized, and we were soon on our way to an exotic year in africa. besides the farewells i had to make to my friends at home, i had few reservations about living abroad. what made it easy for me to come to africa was my eagerness to immerse myself in a new culture. i knew that i might never get such an experience again, so i was determined to learn all i could about the language, the history, and the people, of that far-off place. during the first few months of our stay, my family took various trips around the country. we watched zebra and wildebeest migrate across the serengeti, saw hippos floating like rocks in lake victoria, marveled at flamingos balancing knee-deep in a salt-lake. we climbed an extinct volcano in the rift valley. we snorkeled in the indian ocean and fed fish from our fingers. we hiked 17,000 feet above sea level to the peak of mt. kenya. and we studied swahili, the local language, every evening after dinner. but in late october my aunt came to visit for a month. she romanced us with stories of her experiences in rural africa working in the peace corps. the sharp contrast between the simple lifestyle she described and the one i was leading shocked me as to how un-african my life was. i went to an american school every day with mostly europeans and asians, which, despite being a unique experience itself, isolated me from the larger kenyan community. i was also living in a city, where shopping malls, italia