I used to be a very self-centered person, but in the past two years I have really changed. I have started to think about other people ______I think about myself. I am happy that I am becoming a ______ person.

I think my ______ started when I was at Palomar College. At first, I just wanted to get my ______and be left alone. I thought I was smarter than everyone else, so I hardly ever ______to anyone in my classes. By the end of my first semester（学年）, I was really _____. It seemed as if everyone but me had made friends and was having fun. So I tried a(n)______. I started asking people around me how they were doing, and if they were having trouble I _______to help. That was really a big ______for me. _______ the end of the year, I had several new friends, and two of them are still my best friends today.

A bigger cause of my new ______, however, came when I took a part-time job at a Vista Nursing Home. One old lady there who had Alzheimer’s disease became my ______. Every time I came into her room, she was so ________because she thought I was her daughter. Her real daughter never ______her, so I took her place. She let me _______that making others feel good made me feel good too. When she died, I was ______, but I was very grateful to her.

I think I am a much ______ person today than I used to be, and I hope I will not ______ these experiences. They have ______ me to care about other people more than about myself. I _______ who I am today, and I could not say that a few years ago.

One day, it was raining heavily and I didn’t have an umbrella, I had just_______a bus and had to walk back to my house.I_______walking in that direction, when I heard somebody shouting,“Sister,”“Sister.” I looked back and_______the stationery（文具）shopkeeper.I went to him and asked what was the_______.He said that since it was raining heavily, I could take a_______in his shop, have a look at his new_______and go home when the rain stopped.For a moment I hesitated（犹豫）,but the_______of getting to have a look at the pens made me nod.

To my surprise, I found that the_______was larger than I thought.The stationery shopkeeper offered me a chair and took out the pens for me.I_______a beautiful parker（派克）pen and had a try.It________so smoothly that I wanted to buy it with all my heart,________as expected, it was very expensive. The shopkeeper said, “I can give you the pen for ninety-five dollars________one hundred.” I looked up and thanked him for the________,but refused politely as it was________quite expensive for me. By that time, the rain had________,and after appreciating his________,I quickly walked back to my house.

After that day, the shop became my________place to hang out .The shopkeeper used to________me pens always at discount prices and very often also offered me tea.He had much information about all kinds of pens and other writing instruments.________both of us knew nothing about each other,we had a deep friendship based on our common ________.