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In a small apartment located in the heavy suburbs of Seoul lived a small family of four. The oldest child was a teenage boy named Chan-Yeok. He had a younger sister named Seo-Jin, and they both attended the local school and Hakwon. Each day they awoke at 6:30 A.M., and began their usual schedule. They showered and put on their school uniforms, dark colored and very modest. They were mostly Navy blue with small patterns of red weaving in and out of the tips of the sleeves, with insulated polyester for the cold months in Korea. After they got ready, they began their usual path to school, which considted of walking and taking the subway. The thick crowd of a metropolitan area made it increasingly difficult to fight their way to the subway. As they approached the school each morning, the two departed from one another, each being in a separate class. Chan-yeok walked through his school greeted by almost every person he came in contact with on his way to class. He loved all of his friends, and his life wasn't so bad either. Currently he had the highest scores in his class in Math, Korean, and science. He was very smart, and he was very talented at the cello. As he walked into class, he was proud and confident, knowing that this day would go well just as all the others had been going. But as soon as he got home, the news hit him. When he walked in from school, his parents seemed like they were hiding soemthing. As they set down for dinner, he started to pry about their strange behavoir. They seemed tense, although something bad had happened. After dropping small hints to his parents to let him in on the news, they caved. 'We have to move to the U.S.", they said. Chan-Yeok was surprised, thinking it was only a joke at first. "What do you mean?" Chan-Yeok asked. His mother replied "Your father has gained a high position at the university of Alabama, we are going to have to move their for him to work." Chan-Yeok was stunned. He could speak barely enough English to get by. How was he going to go to school there? He had so many questions, and so many arguements, but he had to follow his parent's orders, and within one month, they were on the day-long plane ride. It was the middle of the school year, in December. Chan-yeok's first day of school was devastating, with him confused as to what everyone was saying. He was a loner, and people stayed away from him mostly, besides the teachers, who had an obligation to try to communicate with him. He was a stranger in a strange land, that he knew nothing about. He could barely speak, and with everyone avoiding him, it made it increasingly difficult. His first week was a mess. With no new friends, and a pile of homework he could barely inderstand besides math, he felt stuck. By the second week he bagan to adapt, but was in a state of depression. He needed to learn English, and learn it fast, because without English, he couldn't get anywhere. By the third week, he dilligently began to study English, learning common phrases and important words/ sentence structures. At lunch one day, he was sitting alone, trying to decipher an English book, and he did know half the words. Giving up went through his head, when suddenly an American guy came up to introduce himself. Chan-yeok was in a state of mental paralysis, and stuttered a simple "hello". The guy could see that he wasn't very proficient, so he did most of the talking. He introduced himself as Chris, and told him he had been living in Alabama all of his life. He invited Chan- yeok to his table of friends, where Chan-yeok was finally included. As it turned out, Chris was in five of Chan-yeoks' eight classes. Soon enough Chan-yeok began to teach Chris some Korean, in exchange for some english lessons. By 4-5 months of living there, Chan-yeok became much more proficient in English, and soon became good friends with chris and others. Because of Chris' kindness, Chan-yeok was able to practice his English, and make new friends in America. Although his first few weeks of school were some of the hardest weeks of his life, he soon was able to break free of some of the barriers that kept him down. The rest of his life in America were some of the best years of his life, and he stayed friends with Chris even after school.