487 Sunik (Uzbekistan, Age 15): English

Sunik

Age 15 Uzbekistan

Hi My name is Sunik and my memoir is about my immigration story when i moved to USA it was 2011, july 21 when i moved to New York i was kind of afraid and little excited. The reason why i was afraid because I didn’t knew how to speak english and i was worried that when i go to school how i would understand understand teachers and others and because of in my country some people said that if you walk around the streets in U.S the gangsters will kill you or something I knew it wasn’t true but who knows i was kind of worried and the reason why i was excited because it was my dream to come to U.S.A and when i was in Uzbekistan i had so much friends and i was happy too. When i was about to travel in 07.21.15 i was really really sad because of my grandpa and also my friend because i knew i would miss them and at first time my father said we would move to U.S i was disagree and at the time i had no choice and i learn about U.S.A and it was really interesting and i decide to come to U.S.A because it our family if one family member is not agree with something we don’t try to do that thing.  My grandma was really sad she was crying when we were in UZB last day we tried to calm her down but she was really sad and also as well as my grandpa he was kind of sad too he was like my bestfriend i used to tell my secrets he was really cool when my father asked my grandpa about my secrets he was like it’s our business don’t worry about it and my dad laugh at us to make my grandpa tell him the secrets but he was really locked.

Finally it was time to travel first we went to other state is UZB which is Tashkent and after that we traveled with the airplane to russia we traveled 4 hours to russia we waited 4 hours in airport to get ready the plane and than we traveled 9 hours Russian to U.S.A New York JFK airport.

We landed to New York it was really cold inside of airport  our baggages didn’t come to new york for some reasons my father was so pissed for that and when we get out of airport it was so hot no one didn’t knew how to speak english than there was a guy said do you guys need taxi but we did not understand but the word taxi is same as our language and my father said yes and we were about to move the cops showed up there were like 4 cops cars than they arrest the taxi  driver because of he was working illegally we were scared.

The cops were talking to us but i can’t quite remember  what he was saying my father said

“Speak russian” and the cops understand and called over the russian cops said are you guys new here than my father said “we are” and they were speaking in russian and the cops said this taxi is illegal don’t ride on this taxi is than the cop call over the new york taxi the yellow lincoln showed up and we went to my fathers friend house and i liked it except the thing happened in airport.

I was really bored about a month then i went to ditmas I.S 62 middle school we lived in family friend house about a 3 months i was 11 when i came here and i was 6th grade it was really fun school than we moved to another apartment we lived there about 1 month with other people it was  2 bedroom apartment and we lived 2 family in that apartment and we got robbed they stoled our laptop computer and about 3 thousand dollars after that we bought a our own house we lived about a 3 years on that house my father was a designer he made a draws a cool picture on a wall than my mother worked in a uzbek store than we went back to uzbekistan we’ve been there 3 months and came back to U.S.

We are still living in that house we bought like 3 years ago and here you go 3 years passed already we are really happy to live in new york now i’m a 9th grade i’m going to international high school at lafayette its really good school i made a lots of friends my teachers are really nice and this is my immigration story hope you enjoyed.