Immigration
In most of my life, I have lived in Turkey. However I have
stayed
in different places; lived in three different cities. These were
friendly (sometimes unfriendly), lively areas of small population.
I usually spent my day around the
neighborhood where I daily
walked or did
activities in the same spots and saw almost the same
people and surroundings daily. I with friends played soccer,
basketball, volleyball and strolled throughout the streets of the
neighborhood. Almost everybody in the neighborhood or area knew each
other and in this neighborhood, many social activities were present.
Basically my time was often spent with friends outdoors doing
miscellaneous activities which sometimes involved new people.
When I first came to U.S.A., I felt many intense, and weird or
previously unknown feelings including extreme anxiety and uneasiness
and also thousands of thoughts of numerous types flooded my mind. Being
surrounded by and seeing people with numerous and various types of
behavior, culture, language, appearance, and socialization besieged my
mind initiating an instance of confusion, anxiety, new thoughts, and
sensations or mental atmosphere for the moment to be suppressed at the
moment. These were all part of the adventure which was begun by the
instance I stepped into J.F.K. I was looking around in a way that I had
never done before. My facial and bodily expressions made my thoughts
undecipherable or hard to explain or interpret given that I was
mentally in the darkness in which I could hardly stay stable, composed,
and active. Despite the presence of a nervous tension and stress or
pressure given the circumstances I kept calm most of the time.
By the time I started school in U.S. I was in 9th
grade. I was one of the strangers of the school rather than a normal
student of the school. Since I didn’t have a good English background
the range of the variety of my learning methods had to be large and
these methods had to be very effective for a fast catch-up process.
My experience was chiefly solving a puzzle that had many
missing pieces and partial-adjustment to a new world with divergent
systems of life encompassed by common life features and characteristics
or a common nature of living. However, I accustomed to certain aspects
of this lifestyle, but only partially as a part of my duty in society.
Naturally I haven’t acquired complete adjustment because that way
certain things that give me distinction or make the core part of my
character stay intact or as before keeping an unwavering, discrete, and
accommodating character. This whole experience essentially opened a
door to a helpful build-up and very diverse points of looking at the
world for me.
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