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This is 'ampaman' from Cheltenham Seconday College.I have been in Melbourne for one and a half years.I study english as ESL with students who come from other countries.
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ReplyDeleteI am a year-eleven-student of Cheltenham Secondary College. I came from Japan and arrived here about one and a half years ago. I study English as a second language with other ESL students who come from many countries. I’m having fun in this class and it’s my favourite subject because we all share hard feelings of similar situation.This time, we decided to interview our friends or parents who have been migrants or international students in Australia. This article will inform and explore what I have learned in my writing and the interview will give me an understanding of the interviewee.
As my interviewee, I chose my Japanese friend, Miki who goes to the same school and has had similar experiences as me since she came to Australia because we also have the same guardian from “The committee of the international exchange ICC”, so I wanted to write an article about her which would be similar to my ideas and wanted the readers to understand more exactly what precious experiences we have had and to be interested in overseas. I hope the students and teachers of my school and others who are interested in the experiences of migrant students or international students who come from other countries and have spent various lives, may better understand the experiences of those students and their families.
Miki is seventeen years old and she left Japan on April, 2007.She left her home country because she had been interested in other countries since she was little and she didn’t have any high school which she wanted to go to in Japan. These reasons why she decided to come without her family were really close to my reasons, so I sympathized with her strongly when I heard them.Next, I asked her about her feelings about the decision to be an international student.Her answer was ’YAY!’ I felt that she was really excited for what’s going to happen in her new life in Australia.
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ReplyDeleteNow, I would like to write her answers to my questions about after she left Japan. Do you think that everything was fun for her as she expected? A new experience she has had in Australia is living with host family and it depends on the situation and host family: she can enjoy the experience or not really. As I guessed, she said that the greatest difficulty of being an international student in Australia is when she finds it hard to communicate to others in English. I asked her ‘How did you cope for the first few months in Australia?’She said “there was nothing special something hard such as home sickness for me.’ I was surprised that she didn’t get home sick!! I knew many friends of mine recovered from home sickness and I did as well, so I thought she was mentally tough. She likes both Australia and Japan, but she prefers Japan when she feels like shopping and she thinks Japan is more enjoyable than Australia, however when she looks at the culture, she prefers Australia because the people are friendly and they tell what they think straight out but basically, she feels there are many people who are racist against Asian people. She misses Japan when she wants to go shopping, when she has to take good care of her host family and when she eats unhealthy and awful food. I asked her for a piece of advice that she wants to give to future migrants or international students and here is what she said, “if YOU made a decision to come, no matter how hard things are, you can survive!”Finally I asked her “Have you regretted coming to Australia?”and her answer was “Never” then she added “I felt that I wanted to try Japanese high school sometimes after I came here, but I could learn about various cultures of different countries and the relationships between the people , so I think that my choice was right and I also think that I would have regretted if I had not come here.”
Throughout this interview I noticed that there were some differences between me and Miki even in similar situations. I esteemed her because she said that she has never regretted coming here as soon as I asked and she was not that delicate while I was fighting with home sickness. But we still feel bad and sad when Aussie students look down on us, ignore us or say bad thing to us because we are Asian. I hope they will understand us more and soon these things will have stopped.