From Jozi to Cork- A tween's Story: My Journey Moving to Ireland
I was born in Johannesburg, and spent the first 9 years of my life living there, before me and my family moved to Ireland 3 months before I turned 10.
When my parents told me we were emigrating, I felt kinda nervous, and definitely sad because I had to leave all my friends and everything behind.
The things I was looking forward to the most were, a better school, not as much litter and pollution, and no taxis who beep for no reason, and drive like they have alcohol for fuel as though the cars are drunk.
The plane trip was long and boring and I had to throw up twice in those paper bags, which was not cool. When we arrived in Ireland it was cool and different, it wasn't scary and I wasn't nervous.
The best things here are kind people, and no criminals. At school the teachers are not mean to you. Instead of shouting and punishment they say, that's OK you can do it again. Yard time is not a giant field and we have to sanitise our hands every time we go outside or come inside. I prefer the later starting time [09:00] because I get more sleep there is more time to get ready and most days there's no rush. I also really like not wearing school uniforms, it's definitely more comfortable and easier to get ready.
The hardest part about emigrating was leaving lots of things I had been with for a long time behind. The things I miss the most are my friends, Chris, Jordan and Cooper, and some family like Granny Judy, Odin, Gary and Bunga.
On a scale of 1 to 10 I would give living in Ireland a 7. The only downside is living in a house with my younger cousins who are super noisy. Whenever I go downstairs my ears hurt, when we move to our own house it will get a 10 out of 10.
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