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    The student discusses adjusting to transferring to a new school in the Philippines after living in Thailand for five years. It was challenging to make new friends and feel at home. Over two years, the student has adjusted well and now considers the school their second family. The student expresses gratitude to those who accepted them and hopes those still seeing them as an outsider will realize they are just one of the students.

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    One of You

    Being a transferee was hard. It was the second week of


    November in 2017. I had just arrived from Thailand, where I
    spent a good five years of my very young life. After a short stint
    at a public school in Davao City, my father finally decided to
    enroll me at Surallah Central Elementary School and SPED
    Center in the middle of School Year 2017-2018. I knew
    absolutely no one at first, and I had to start making new friends
    and getting familiar with my surroundings.

    Being new was a challenge. Sometimes, I felt happy


    because I was slowly able to gain friends. At times, I felt sad
    thinking about my friends in Thailand that I had left behind.

    But then I had to adjust to my new life and learn to move


    on. I needed to focus on my studies if I wanted to succeed and
    move up to the next level of my formal elementary education. In
    fact, learning was my main purpose of going to school, not
    having a good time with friends, although socialization was also a
    necessary part of a student's holistic growth and development.

    I have been here for more than two years now and I can
    say that I have adjusted quite well. It now feels like I have found
    my true home, and life is easier. As expected, there will always
    be challenges, like having to deal with bullying, or preparing for
    difficult exams or homework assignments. However, I can say
    that I have become a strong person who can rise up to all these
    challenges, thanks to my parents and the school, which I consider
    my second family. Both have played a great role in shaping me
    into the person that I am.
    To the people who accepted me and have been very good to
    me from the very beginning, my heart is filled with gratitude
    towards you for making me feel so loved, and I think being loved
    is everybody else wants. To those who still consider me an
    outsider, I can only hope that you will finally be able to see that I
    am just ONE OF YOU, my fellow students. We are equal in the
    eyes of the school notwithstanding our economic status,
    scholastic background, or upbringing.

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