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This is my story (마이 스토리)

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08-15-2009, 04:52 AM
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To start i wanna tell my readers its gonna be kinda long...
Im 18 and a Korean FOB(Fresh Of the Boat) and just graduated high school and living in Irvine.
well then here goes my story.

I was born and raised in Korea and after going to kindergarder(?) there my family decided to move to Peru (dunno y) and after about a year to Mexico..
In Mexico I first went to elementary school and was really scared everyone look very different to want my family and me looked like. and 6years later I graduated and moved to America. I was 11 and when I just got to adapt to the Mexican elementary, I had to go to a completely new American Junior high. I met new friends and got better at my first language (korean) and for speaking it too much I forgot most of the spanish. After a couple years, I slowly got used to the American lifestyle and graduated junior high.

My life started to complicate from then on.
In High School I saw my old friends and made new friends Koreans, Whites, African American friends, and even Hispanic friends. I was a freshman in high school and at the end of every school day, I had so much envy on the upper classmen that came to school in their own CAR! can you believe it!? their own car!!... from that day on I dreamed of the day in which I drove my car to school and my under classmen envied me

However this dream would completely break apart when I asked my parents about getting my drivers license when I got older just like the others...
I did not understand why they evaded my questions or why they didnt answer them... I turned 16 and was ready to get my licence... that night I understood why I couldn't get it.. Me, my family everyone was undocumented
and after feeling terrible for some time I put up to it. My senior year was the worst of the 4years of high school. Many friends drove their cars and even juniors drove... After the first semester I got used to it and decided to live my life just like it is now. I graduated high school with a 3.2 and now I really feel alone...
It was hard to live as a undocumented person and it still is.. specially here in Irvine less and less people want to hire undocumented people and applying for college is not that easy when my family need more money to live. Now I look for jobs and try to get a certificate for teaching the TOEFL (Its like a Korean SAT) so if anything happened I had something to work in korea.

Well thats my story
I hope it wasnt tooooo long..
thank you for reading it ^^
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08-15-2009, 11:13 AM
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lived in Mexico eh? what part? but anyways, welcome!
your story wasn't that long, interesting really.
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08-15-2009, 11:38 AM
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Wow, you've lived all over. Welcome! Stick around
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08-15-2009, 08:58 PM
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lived in Mexico eh? what part? but anyways, welcome!
your story wasn't that long, interesting really.
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thank you! hope to see you alot around here
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08-15-2009, 09:01 PM
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Wow, you've lived all over. Welcome! Stick around
Well yea kinda too many countries and so little time but anyways thank you!
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08-16-2009, 01:39 AM
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thanks for sharing your story!

I'm a Korean fob as well!
PM me if you need help on anything!
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08-16-2009, 03:52 PM
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thanks for sharing your story!

I'm a Korean fob as well!
PM me if you need help on anything!
nice! sure Ill make sure to ask you first thing!
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08-16-2009, 06:11 PM
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Hey! I'm Korean too but I came here when I was 2 months old. Nice to meet you!
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08-16-2009, 06:40 PM
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hellooo (:
im korean too ! i came here when i was 5 years old now & 19 next month ~ wow you live in california too, i do too haha
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08-17-2009, 12:49 AM
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Hey! I'm Korean too but I came here when I was 2 months old. Nice to meet you!
Nice to meet you too!
if you came here that young korean would be a second language for you rite?
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