Sunday 24 November 2013

My Problem

More and more people who were from different countries decided to move to Canada for a better life. It makes Canada become a huge muti-cultural country. However, most of the mew immigrant cannot adapt the environment or education, and there’re tons of problems which are waiting for them to figure out. I’m one of the immigrants who have come for several months, trying to adapt the life in Canada, and certainly the most difficult thing for me is the language.
  When I first came to Vancouver, I got lost in this unfamiliar city. All of my friends were staying in China, and the feeling of lonely almost conquer my life. I tried to get out of my home, and communicated with others to make the mood clam. However, I found there’s not a topic which can talk at all, because it’s hard to understand what they said during that time. English became the most difficult problem which puzzled me, and it also brought a lot of inconvenience such as: order a meal, buy the stuff, and even take the bus. Therefore, my parents sent me to a cramming school to learn some basic English which can communicate with others easily. From the school, I met some teenagers who also struggled in English like me, and I made some friends.
  Although, my English skills are good enough to live a better life in Vancouver, it’s still a problem to get a good score at school. The essays are hard to write and the books are bored to read. There’re bunch of strange vocabularies, and idioms which still persecute me. I always make silly mistakes in spelling and grammar. I write the essay in the way which I learned in China. Those things tell me that I still cannot figure out the problem of language.
However, I believe, “where there is a will there is a way!” I could get out of the struggle by the striving and insist.

1 comment:

  1. I hear you; you are not experiencing anything unusual for new immigrants. The thing is you are coming here relatively late whereas some students come in elementary school and have time to adjust to the new ways of learning and socializing. It's tough. I don't think I could personally move to a foreign country (like China) when I am 16 and then be expected to get A's in a language that isn't my first just to get into a university. I don't think people's expectations are realistic. But that's just my opinion. You just have to make the best of it and learn as much as you can and not beat yourself up if it doesn't work out.

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