This story is about myself migrating to New Zealand. 2013, our family moved from South Korea to New Zealand. I was only 10 years old (NZ age) or 11 years old (Korean age) when I came to New Zealand. The reasons why we came to New Zealand were to get better education and have a less busy life because I had to go to lots of academies and study more. I also had lots of positive thoughts about NZ like, there's less studying, nice people and I also thought that I can learn to be brave. That's what my thoughts about NZ were.
But not everything was easy. When I first went to school. It was very hard to understand that they were talking and it was frustrating. I also wanted to go back to Korea so that I did not get stressed about learning other language and feel like I'm left out. Fortunately, I met some friends that helped me a lot when I first came to NZ and couldn't speak English well. It is still hard to speak English as well as the other people and I still get stressed about my tests/exams and English subjects. I feel little bad when I get not many good test results but I try not to think about it.
When I hear someone saying that my stress is not even a big deal, I always tell them that it doesn't mean that I should not get stressed just because other people do harder stuff. In addition, I don't like studying or doing what people tell me to do but I thought that the blending to other people is the key to making friends. So I always remember to understand other people when I feel bad. My advice about migrating to a new country is to work hard, understand people and be patient then you'll get a better life and mind thank you.
Yukyung
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