The difficulties that a new imgrate might encounter

When you come to a totally new country, more or less, you must have encountered different kinds of difficulties, Some are long-term and some are short-term. Like Language and culture are long term difficulties, while jobs, resident places are short term, for you can find a job and a place to live sooner or later.

Take our family for example:

I should say we are lucky ones, we didn't have big difficulties. Before we landed Australia, my husband's friend helped us to rent a unit in Roselands. After we got off the plane, we took a taxi direct to the unit.

At that night, we have to sleep on the ground, because there was no furniture, luckily we got heavy blankets as matress. The next day my husband's ex-boss and his son brought us some furniture, a bed and bedding stuff, a tv and other stuff. Now we were almost settled.

The next day we walked out, wondered in the street, even didn't know how to across the street, where to buy food. Lucky our neighbour was a Chinese couple with a little boy. They offered us their chairs, and let us to call back China telling our parents that we had safely arrived, and the next day they helped us to connect the phone. They helped us to choose a car. Before we had a car of our own, When they went shopping they would take my husband with them. After we had our own car, they led us to some places, shopping centre, beaches and even Canberra. They told us everything to need to know and to do.

Now we have been parted for 2 years, for they have already settled in Perth, we miss each other and always have phone calls or emails.

We call them brothers and sisters, we are really like brothers and sisters. Our Chinese people believes in fate, I always thought, it is the fate let us to get to know each other and became brothers and sisters.

At that time, when we went shopping, everything seemed so expensive for us. We had no earnings. After most things settled, my husband began to search jobs, but before he got a chance for an interview, the ex-boss invited to a dinner and announced my husband as his companys’ group accountant. Then the day after the next day, my husband started to work.

After five years, we bought our own unit, no need to worry about being told that we needed to move out for the owner wanted to decorating the rented unit.

Not too much big difficulties for us, but still English is the problems for us, especially for me. We watch TV programmes to improve our English everyday. I learn English with my kids. And now I go to AMEP to learn English.

I said we are lucky dogs. Some are more lucky than us, some are not. But no matter difficulties are, you can overcome them at last. And we have government to help. For Chinese, there are also Chinese websites to help new migrants, to make friends. You can get or exchange any information. And on festivals you can have big get-togethers with the friends from internet.

So for the new migrants who are in difficulties, please don’t feel miserable, helps are always around you.