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[hyovans]

I don't really remember the exact day my mom told me I was going back to Singapore. I'm not really sure how I reacted, probably excitement. Back to civilization, back to a comfortable way of life, good schools, korean church, I was pretty excited. I remember the night we flew in to Singapore. It felt surreal. Suddenly leaving behind a way of life I

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[tripletxtreme]

Did you ever get flak for being a foreigner, like " that kid from Cambodia", or " the Korean boy"?

[hyovans]

hmm i think it was more of an internal pressure. like i just kept telling myself that I was a different person because I was Korean/from Cambodia. i didn't really like telling people I was from Cambodia because I didn't want people to think I was some country bumpkin, but I think I'm kinda over that now. hmm TBH I think people didn't treat me any different (in a bad way) just cause I wasn't like "one of them".

[anonymous]

Since you moved from country to country, and spent a long time in cambodia, how come your academics were not affected? You still managed to get into good sec sch, jc....You are still so smart?, analytical, good at language and writing...

[hyovans]

Uhmm I don't know really. Probably my mom's influence. She has a big thing about us kids always reading. I remember in Cambodia, she made us do worksheets for Korean and got home schooling material so we wouldn't lag behind in English. And on top of that we were pretty bored most of the time and there were plenty of childrens books (which were donated by other people) that we read to kill time. And I guess that kinda developed a love for reading in me until today. I'm not sure if I'm really analytical or anything cos my thinking gets pretty muddled a lot but... my personal opinion is that books helped a lot.
And that's what I believe in, that books really make people interesting and wiser (or smarter) in general.