Cause and Effects Letter

Writing to Explain Cause and Effects
Drawing correlations

Dear Mother,

I decided to do study abroad in India this summer because I feel that it will expose me to an entirely different culture that is so far from our own. I know you are concerned about my safety and how I will react upon arrival. I believe your first words when I said I decided to go to India was "Isn't there a war going on India right now?? I am NOT telling your father about this!"
I will begin by reminding you how I had high hopes of one day becoming a journalist--mind you, I was sprouting these idealistic notions during the 90s' when journalism was at its peak during the golden era.

However, now that journalism has changed so rapidly, the direction of where it is going has left me confused and questioning my major. I think by studying communication and mass media in India, it will help me out of this yuppie-quarter life crisis situation that I am currently in right now. Being exposed on an international level will remind me of the importance of good journalism; especially by reminding me of the intense poverty still going on in the world. I know for a fact that after I come home from India, I will feel like a foreigner in my own country and that will lead me to begin questioning things again and taking on a whole new approach when I return for my final year in college.

Safety is a big issue, but I know I will be safe with my professors and colleagues. You took your own chances when you left Vietnam for America and I hope that you will understand my decision to take a chance on India and placing a gamble that it will eventually leave me into the future career that I had always hoped I would achieve.

Fondly,

Your second child