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From North America to Poland [17]
So yeah, I lived in Ontario for my whole life. I recently moved to Poland with my parents (I'm 15), because they wanted to move back, family purposes. They speak fluent Polish, and their English is also really good. I, on the other hand, speak fluent English but my Polish is somewhat, well, crap. I've been living here for 6 months and with all due respect, I hate it. I can rant and rant for hours, but I won't list the small details.
I moved here in August and started school in September. My parents and the principal told me that I'll be going to one class lower, so everything wouldn't be too hard. I thought that they would treat me a bit better than average seeing as how the students knew that my Polish isn't that fluent. I was wrong, really wrong. I've gotten in to fights every other day, I broke two metacarpal bones in my hand from fighting, yeah. The kids there were disgusting, seriously. Not to be a dick or anything but they didn't use deodorant.
I had enough of that school so I switched to a more educated school, and went to a class higher. Most of the teachers at the new school didn't give a sh*t that I was from Canada and they handed me work the second day. I had a history test the fourth day that I came to that school. What the f*uck?! I was clueless, so I told myself to not stress and just don't write a single thing. Teacher started yelling, blah blah blah. I got my parents in the next day and they sorted out
half of the stuff. Aside from that, the kids were better, but the learning level was just way too high.
Now on to the streets, people would be total as*holes. I do dress a bit different (Skinny jeans, my hair is a bit long, and I have an accent. From my point of view, I dress like any other kid in Canada). They would just stop what they were doing, and star at me, it drove me nuts. And when I would ride my bike (I BMX, like tricks off stairs and handrails), the older people would freak out, not when I'm doing tricks, just when I'm riding by on the sidewalk. God.
So after those six months of being pissed off, and being somewhat miserable, we decided to move back to Canada. I will miss this country a bit, seeing as how I made some awesome friends. There were ups and downs with this new experience, but sad to say, there were much more downs. My flight is on the 23rd and I'm really stoked on that!
The reason I made this thread was to see if anyone my age, or anyone older has had the situation. Lots of replies would be nice.
P.S. sorry for any typos, I'm currently packing and I wrote this quickly.