Immigrating is an agonizing process that takes years to adjust. I was born in a small city named Johor Bahru in Malaysia, but I never really stayed there as a child. My parents moved to China to seek economic advantages when I was five years old. my parents settled in Guiyang, a city in the western great plateau with a population of three millions. my parents enrolled me in a local public school there, showing their intention for me to fit into the Chinese mainstreat society. I attended Chinese-langtuage kindergartens in Malayis,a but courses are nevertheless taught in a mixture of English and Chinese. It is a difficult and painstaking process to adjust in a …show more content…
This time, my family gave up Asia for North America. My parents paid thyeir investments to the Canadian government and were thus admitted to Canada as permanent residents. My parents enrolled me in public elementary school again. With my English learned in Malaysia largely forgotten, I have to start from scratch: reeducate myself and "relearn" english. Demographically, Canada has a large Chinese-diaspora population that mainly composes with recent immigrants from Mainland China and an older generation from Hong Kong and Taiwan. Unfortunately, I did not take advantage from this demographic factor, my school focused no one speaking competent Mandarin to communicate with me. I spent an excruciating final elementary school year unable to even do the most basic