Hello, I'm Joy Lee.
I'm from South Korea.
I came to Australia with my family 3 years ago.
It is nice to share "overseas students blog" with ESL students
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This blog site has been created for a class of ESL students completing their VCE studies at Cheltenham Secondary College. Our purpose is to develop practical skills in online communication, and to discuss the context 'Leaving Home: Identity and Belonging'. Throughout this year we have been writing and reading stories of leaving home and adjusting to new environments. We invite commentary from all interested parties, especially other students.
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My name is Jae Kyoung Lee also known as Joy from Korea. I came to Australia about 3 years ago. I'm 17 years old. I'm writing this article to help people to understand the experiences of migrants and international students and their families. To get more information, I interviewed Yoko and then I compared her experiences with my own experiences. The reason why I chose Yoko as an interviewee is because Yoko is from a different country from me so I wanted to know how our experiences are different and similar, also I’m not an international student, I could know how is a life to live in a foreign country as an international student.
ReplyDeleteYoko is from Japan. She came to Australia as an international student on the 3rd of April, 2008. I met her this year at Cheltenham Secondary College. She is in the same form as me, 11E. She came to Australia because she didn’t like her junior high school, she didn’t want to spend 3 more years at high school which is similar to junior high school and she also needed to learn English for her future because she wants to be a tour-guide which requires her to speak many languages. When she first came to Australia, she was excited with the expectation of what would happen in her new life in Australia but it wasn’t easy to live in a foreign country. Because you can’t speak English fluently, it’s hard to make friends. Sometimes local students ignore international students and some people started to look down on her when they noticed that she was an international student. She had some new experiences in Australia, living without her family, studying in English without friends. She didn’t like these new experiences because she missed Japan. In Australia, she felt that some of Australians are nice but some of them are racist. Sometimes they make fun of Asians and international students. There are some differences between Japan and Australia. Foods are one big difference. Australian people don’t eat healthy foods. They eat hamburgers, bread, chips etc. Compared to this, Japanese foods are much healthier like sushi, rice etc. The other difference is buildings. Australian buildings are lower than Japan because the land is so much bigger. Another difference is that Japanese people don’t like to say bad things straight to a person’s face but Australians do. Also Australia is multicultural so it was fun to see people from all different kinds of countries. Right now she likes Japan more than Australia but she will like Australia more if her family is here and if her English skill improves. She wanted to give advice to future migrants that migrating won’t be easy but there might be someone who can help and understand you. Do your best then you will be fine.
As Korea and Japan are similar, I and Yoko had similar experiences. We both had difficulties in English, we both miss our own country, and some Australians were racist. It wasn’t easy to live in a new country. We had to get used to new culture, new environment, and new people. Australians look down on us just because our English is not good and we are Asian. If they knew more about Asia, they wouldn’t ignore us anymore. We might be close friend. If we understand each other more, it might be easier to live in a foreign country.
Hi! My name is Deborah Kong, I'm in year 11 and I landed here, in Australia this year, it was a new life, which was starting. At first, i was getting used to Australia and the inhabitants; I was even starting to like Australia; but then nostalgia got over me, it started to affect my life. I was missing my country, and my family there; and my life became difficult. Lack of sleep hours and stress were accumulating but fortunately I have my mother, my brother and some friends around me.
ReplyDeleteI decided to interview one of my closest friends , on what she felt while coming to Australia. I wanted to know if whether she felt like me or not, about changing country, to move to a new country, which she did not know anything about. Her name is Jae Kyoung Lee, but everybody calls her Joy. She is an awesome person^^. She is 17 like me and she comes from Korea. She migrated to Australia 3 years ago. The first time we met was, my first day at Cheltenham secondary, it was also my first time going to school here, in Australia. It was also here first day in this school, this point was the first common point we had XD. Then we became closer and closer as we knew each other little by little. Another ironical thing was that I wanted to meet someone from Korea so bad, as i liked this country so much, and it happened that my first new friend in this country is Joy. At first, when her parents decided to move here, she was feeling happy and excited; as it was her first trip in an aeroplane and therefire, her first time overseas. The first thing that she noticed as she stepped out of the plane, was that the weather was marvellous, the blue sky was showing itself. It was all new to her, very different to Korea; and she was intimidated by australians; which made it harder for her to communicate with them.
Her parents decided to move here, to Australia, because they wanted to move to a country where english was the native language. So they moved here, their decisions about the country, was also made because she has a lot of relatives here.
The excitement that she had at first, faded little by little, as she came to Australia; because she encountered a lot of difficulties. One of them, was the english language, she found it very hard to communicate with others, using english, thus made it harder for her to make friends here. She also had to get used to have all her subjects at school, in english; as in Korea, they study in korean. Fortunately, she made some new friends at the korean school she attends. They helped her with english and also with school stuff. She found it hard to use english everywhere and everyday, and she started missing her country, Korea.
Some things that she was discontent and disappointed with was that in Melbourne, there is no snow, as she is a snow lover, it was a hard adaptation for her and she was very disappointed. Another point that made her new life harder was: to see that some australians are racists, she felt somehow a little rejected in this new country. The food too became a problem as she missed korean food badly, and even if she could get some here, it was not the same as she had in Korea; and she does not especially like australian food.
ReplyDeleteRegardless of all those disadvantages, she found some joyful experiences, for example, she had the chance to live in a house, as in Korea, people live mostly in apartments. She also met new friends from other countries, even some countries she did not know the
existence of, for example mine XD. She often misses her country, mostly when she thinks about her korean friends, when she cannot eat some korean food and I suppose during the season where it snows in Korea. But she puts in mind that her family and friends here are with her; that studies here are lighter than in Korea and also that she can go to the beach easily; she puts all of this in her mind to have the strength to carry on her life here.
ReplyDeleteI also asked her, if she sees herself here, later on, with her grandchildren; and her answer was: -maybe, if I cannot return to Korea, yes I see myself here, as I have my family here.-
ReplyDeleteThis piece of work was on Joy’s thoughts ans experiences in being a migrant in a new country, she knew nothing about. During this interview, I noticed that Joy and me, have several thoughts and feelings in common. One thing also that I noticed was that, our adaptation to australian life and the country itself, was made even harder, by one similar thing, ‘racism.’ Small thing, but strong enough to make someone change its mind and its good mood, to a negative one. But as every one know that, there are no advantages without disadvantages.
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