My self

My name is Mnar Shay and my name is from  the bible and my name created by my mother. I was born in Thailand near the  border with Burma.  The  place is call Klo Pa refugee camp. When I was six months old I had to move to another camp called Thailand Mae Ra Moe refugee camp and I  grew up there. In the refugee camp we had 7 sections and each section have 500 houses. It had a river, playground, school,hospital, bridge and offices. I went to school there. The school in the refugee camp was not much beautiful. The school is made of by tree, bamboo, and the roof is leaves. The school classroom didn’t have a  computer, cafeteria bus and the student usually walked to school. I didn't have friends who spoke a  different language. We only spoke the Karen language. Every day the school starts at 8:40 Am and finishes at 3:15 Pm. The boys had to cut hair and the girls couldn’t  cut theirs. I came to the U.S on March 26 2013  11:00 Pm. Before I came to the U.S I thought it would be like having many friends speaking the  same language, not cold, and the city would be really clear no apartment houses and I would see my old friends. I also thought there would be have forrest, a lot of rivers and mountains.

Then after I arrived  in Philadelphia  I was surprised. All of my ideas are changed  and wrong. There were many people, a lot of cars and the some streets were dirty and dusty. I saw playgrounds parks, beautiful big school and large builds. It also have people speak different languages and handsome girl and boy. Then after one month or two I started school. The school was hard and my face was hot and red. Because I didn’t know anything  and I saw a lot of people and they are spoke different languages. I got a roster I looked at it but I don't know what is was? After I ate breakfast I saw one person he spoke Karen and I  got better because he helped me. In the school I had a lot of teachers  they  talked to me and helped me with many things. They all had good qualities and were intelligent. The teachers  don't hit the students here and always help students. After one year I felt better and happy because I have a lot of friends and I can talk to my teachers. Now I also felt happy because I can read and write and I also did a lot of volunteer work to help people in the community garden.Helping other people helps me too. I live with my parents and two sisters. They go to school and my  parents  work hard. They work 5 days a week. My parent feel happy because the children have good education,opportunity and good teachers. Also this country has enough food, clothes and places or new house. My parents also understand more English and job in the U.S. But sometimes my parent miss their family, friends relation and the place they were born. Because they want to see their family and they have lived far away for many years ago. If I am able to read and write and translate to my family or other people so can make my life better in the U.S. I also should have good job, have my own house, have good health and continue to  go to college, study and have good friends. In the U.S have a lot of opportunities,  good education, schools and famous colleges. So I feel happy to come to the U.S and have new good friends and teachers.

In my country many different people come from the other countries. When I was in 6 grade I saw one teacher she spoke English and she is old. She came visit our class then talked to our students. I am so happy. She is from another country. Before I came I had to leave my friends, classmates, teachers and relations. Some of my friends and I talk to everyone left in Thailand. I use phone and computer and FaceBook to talk to my friends and family or relation. In my first country I was not feel safe and we had problems. Because we didn’t  have fire stations and the fire cars to protect our country. Also yearly the rivers flooded and sometime created damage. I have a lot of freedom in the U.S. In my country I didn’t have freedom like here. In the U.S you can do many things and be what you want to be. You can go to school at 1 grade to 12 grade for free. But in my country I had to pay money. The students are in my country they had to cut their hair and wear uniform everyday. In the U.S student don't have to cut hair. In U.S you also learn a lot of things. I feel proud to come to U.S. We also have free speech, and religions. The weather in the U.S is really pretty and beautiful. In U.S when the season move to other seasons the tree look beautiful and amazing. But in my country I had three season and the one I didn’t like was the rainy season because there was  a lot of rain the streets had mud. In the U.S the season I don't like is winter because it is really cold and I always feel sleepy or want to sleep at school and house. But the in the U.S there are trees and the place is beautiful. My dream is I will go to college and drive and learn computer and computer code.