How I Changed My Life Forever

My move from South Korea to the United States was to this day the hardest, most stressful event of my whole entire life. At the age of six, I gave up the comfort of my friends, culture, and home to move to a country halfway across the world. Korea was everything I knew and loved. Having never set foot outside of the country, all my dreams and aspirations were set in Korea. Although I was a fickle child and my goals changed constantly, they all were intertwined with Korea. I was going to become a pianist in Korea and teach piano to students. Another time, I decided I was going to become a math teacher at the school I was attending. My view of the world was limited, but I was happy in my familiar, safe place. My move to America changed my whole perspective.

Seven years earlier, I migrated to Hawaii when I was twenty-three. I had flown away from my mother and my life in the Philippines. Like young adults and being rebellious, I wanted to live on my own away from my mother 's roof. I left the city life I grew up with in the Philippines in hope of a better life in another country.

I arrived in Canada on February 21, 2013. I was happy and at the same time sad because I didn’t know how to start a new life. The hotel that the immigration booked for us was downtown in one of the oldest part of the city. I got scared and thought Toronto was an old town instead of a modern city. We had only one friend in Canada and she was a full-time teacher and could not visit us that often. I felt so alone at the beginning. I spent my first week in Canada crying like a baby. My tears could fill a whole bathtub. It's so hard to start a new life in a country where you don’t know the language where you have no friends. But, my mom had made her decision and knew that this is the best place for me to study. I now realize that moms can make the best decisions even when they're under a lot of

My parents decided to move to Canada because they wanted a better life for her future family. They knew that life would be easier and have more in store for them in Canada. Before they left Hungary my mom was a teacher and my dad imported shoes from Italy.

By analyzing the examples above, a complete picture is formed to depict the status of Chinese immigrants in Canada. The Chinese immigration experience has had its own difficulties and obstacles. It seems that for every hurdle that the Chinese immigrants go through, there is another twist that prevents that individual from realizing the goals that prompted them to leave the China in the first place.

In the past, Canadian identity was dominated by the clash between English Canadians and French Canadians, and the close ties between the English-Canadians and the British Empire. However, with the gradual weakening of our ties with Great Britain, immigrants from Europe, Asia, and Africa have reshaped the Canadian identity. Immigrants built Canada into what it is today. From the Chinese on the Canadian Pacific Railway to the Irish on much of the work on Victoria bridge, and the Italians on the Bloor Street Bridge. However, immigrants face many problems when adapting into Canada. These problems can include cultural differences, difference in political values and beliefs, and discrimination. But what item can help immigrants adapt into

Moving to another country without knowing the language and culture at the age of 15, was one of the most important decisions that I had to make in my life. I left my mom, family, and friends because I knew that leaving them would prepare me to become an independent person. Moving to the United States gave me the chance to learn a new language, and a better future.

My experience of moving to the USA included a couple of steps such as preparing, arriving, and adopting. Moving to America was one of the most thrilling and exciting experiences I have ever had in my life. It all started after I graduated from high school. I had always dreamed of going to abroad to study in a better school to be successful in life. My dad was leaving me hints here and there that he was going to send me America for school, but I was sure that it wasn’t going to happen because getting a student visa was tough back then. However, that summer when I saw that letter in my mail from the immigration department of USA for an interview, I was speechless.

Moving from one country to another involved immense risk, and this risk was greater to some than others. After the war many men had wives and children to support. At this time, my grandparents had seven children and one on the way. My grandfather felt that is was a greater risk to stay in a country with no promise of immediate reconstruction and a very bleak future of instability than to go on to a new world, still uncertain, but of endless possibilities. Once everyone boarded the ship to set sail for Canada there was no turning back, but this is where some people started to second guess their decisions as the

Hard work is required to achieve and to persevere. John decided to be the first in his family to immigrate outside of China. In 1999, he immigrated to Canada. He faced many problems with language, coping with the different rules

It was one life-changing experience I was seven years old when I became grateful for the things that I had. I remember packing for this big trip my parents were planning for a year now. I precisely recall my mother telling me to go through my closet and pick clothes I did not use to give away, I didn't know why, but I didn't ask, I just did it. As the day got closer I remember my parents had accumulated a great amount of things to give away. I quite didn't understand why they were gathering so many things and for what reason.

A life-changing event is not something to be taken lightly. Throughout our lives, we encounter many obstacles and changes, some of which bring us joy and excitement, others of which may be hard for us to handle. When I look back on my relatively short life, it may, at first, be hard for me to think of an event that has truly molded and shaped the person that I am today. I have encountered several changes, but at the time, they felt like mere speed bumps along my path. Looking back now, it is easy for me to see that these changes were not by chance, but were placed in my path to form the person that I am today.

Firstly, second-generation immigrants do not feel connected to their homeland; instead their identity is tied to the place they were born. In a study conducted with Canadian-born Chinese (CBC) young adults, researchers claim: “migration involves constituting a sense of belonging in a new place while maintaining ties to the place of origin” (Kobayashi and Preston 235). This was concluded after many participants articulated a contested sense of belonging. When the old culture is abandoned, most often by second-generation immigrants, they do not connect to their cultural origins. Likewise, when the new

There are many different life changing events that can change your life. Sometimes things happen in people’s life and they can’t do anything about it. Changes can be good and sometimes it can be a terrible thing that results in a positive turn in one’s life. Change is a part of life that no one looks forward to. Everyone’s life changes at some point. Life is full of many unexpected challenges that will be thrown in your face at any place and any time. People learn and grow from every experience that they go through in life. Some of the events that have changed my life was losing my grandmother, graduation, and going to college. Changes come almost every day in my life.

An accident can happen to anyone at any time. It is so unusual and it happens because of our unwillingness and careless. I have heard news about people getting car accident in radio and TV. But this time I have experienced a nightmare incident in my life. I feel that everything happens for a reason .This is why my life has changed into a different one. Our life is designed in such a way that we have to learn various information as we grow up and we will learn by doing certain mistakes. Accident can amend your life in numerous manner: Realization of several mistakes, beginning of new sort of life, and lowers the level of quality of life.