My life in Adelaide, South Australia

Posted by Yuka as Hot Cities

On the 31th of August in 2008,I arrived in Adelaide, South Australia. I met my
fisrt homestay.She came from a immigrant family which came from South Africa.
She is nice to in most of time that I lived with her,but I changed homestay in
the end, because I couldn’t access the internet and couldn’t have tasty food. I
was really sad in the first four weeks when I came Australia. I couldn’t
understand much English, I couldn’t enjoy the TV program. I wanted to talk to my
parents so much. I wanted to have Chinese food with rice. I wanted to contract
to my previous friends and classmates. Sometime I felt I was really hopeless,
the homestay got upset me because I couldn’t understand her order. I had no
choice, I couldn’t only accept everything. I wanted to meet more people and
friends in Australia, but most of days I couldn’t only stayed in the small room
and played boring game to help me try to forget the time. I couldn’t see any
people even I walked more than 30 minutes on the road.And the cars passed me, I
felt I was so poor and pityful in the strange country. I couldn’t do lots of
things by myself, ’cause I couldnot understand English very well.On a Saturday,
I went to city alone. To get some Chinese food and access the internet there. I
found Aussie city was quite different from Chinese city, I was little bit
disappointed.

Fortunately, my school work was very good at the time, I
accumulated my English day by day by watching the news and reading newspapers.
Mrs Barrette was a important person to me. She was my first English teacher in
Australia. I like her and respect her very much. She was not the sort of
teachers I ‘ve experienced in China. She is a really teacher. In her heart,
there is none bad student. Everyone can be educated by her. Once she was upset
to me, because I didn’t do any homework. I found I should be a good student
after that, that was the only time she was upset to me, I still remember it
now.

I tried to change the homestay as soon as possible.Actually I
couldn’t too much for that, it depended on the teachers and department’s
staffs,but I still tried to write the letters to complain. The teacher Mary
dealed with the matter for me, unbelievable I changed homestay in two weeks. It
was amazing at that time, most students wanted for more than one month or one
term. I felt so proud of that I changed homestay so soon. Dad’s suggestion was
correct, to write a lot to complain.I was so angry with my agency, they were not
helpful at all. I don’t believe those agency since that time. The only one could
save me is myself. I had not other choice. I moved to live with a Chinese family
in Octocber.