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Macaulay Honors College
at Baruch, Spring 2013Professor Els de Graauw
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Missing the Homeland
Jenny, a 20-year-old woman from South Korea, speaks about why she misses home:
I want to go back to Korea. No offense but I don’t like it here. I don’t like the way everything is set up. In Korea you can go anywhere by walking. On every street there are little stores. Where I live now you have to drive a car, I’m 30 minutes from the nearest store. Also the subways are much cleaner than here. There are also glass doors. The train arrives and there are glass doors to prevent people from falling into the tracks. Here it’s so dirty, and smelly, and there are cockroaches, and rats.
Difficulties of the English Language
Jenny, a 20-year-old woman from South Korea, speaks of her difficulties with learning English:
I didn’t even have friends. When I first came here English was my biggest problem. I did not understand a single word they said. And the kids made fun of me because I didn’t know English, I feel like they were talking about me but I didn’t get it. […] My mom tried so many things on me. She tried phonics, she tried vocab words, she tried movies, she tried TV shows, making me read newspapers, none of that worked. […] I was a total failure though. I started understanding English from school. I started talking to the teacher one-on-one. That kind of worked.
Making the Process Look Easy
Jenny, a 20-year-old woman from South Korea, briefly states why moving to New York City was easy for her family:
My dad came with a student visa and then he got a green card because his company sponsored him. So it was kind of a great thing for us. After like a year of arriving here we got our green card.
