How to overcome the immigration crisis: tips and personal experience
'05.07.2020'
Source: Yandex Zen
One of the most important stages of adaptation to life in a new country is overcoming the so-called "immigration crisis", says the author of the blog "Queen in the USA" on Yandex Zen.
Immigration is a challenge to yourself.
Getting out of your comfort zone is what many immigrants experience.
Loss of comfort at the household level: problems with stable income and balancing spending and income;
at the social level - the language barrier, the difference in mentality;
on a personal level - distance from loved ones, a decrease in self-confidence and strength to overcome difficulties.
Immigration is a litmus test where your flaws and best qualities will be exposed.
Sometimes you will not recognize yourself, paradoxically, getting to know yourself again. You will realize that you are capable of much more than you thought. You will find out that your powers are almost inexhaustible, and where they ended, a new source is hidden. But one day (or many times) you will be stopped by the thought: "I'm tired, I want to go home."
At this critical moment, you need to go as during a blizzard: in small steps, thinking about warmth. What steps did I go?
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Compiled lists. The first is a list of things I've done. How many have already shoveled, how many difficulties have passed. The second is what I can be proud of from the period I lived in the USA. Both of these lists all the time hung in front of my eyes on the refrigerator. I refilled them every few days.
Every day I devoted half an hour to an hour to my favorite activities: I drew, read, watched films, lay in the bathroom with foam, cooked delicious, walked on foot. She put all things aside and devoted time to herself.
I brought comfort in the apartment I’m renting. I filled the space around me with things dear to my heart, home decoration and decorations that I like. Made an island of safety in the middle of an alien world.
The negative spilled out. In safe ways. I went out into the mountains and screamed there at full throat, scattered unbreakable objects at home and scribbled paper. And she wrote a lot, constantly complained to a notebook about hardships and hardships.
Communicated with loved ones. Video calling has been my best friend for the first year. And now, after 3 years, every day I talk with someone from my family or close friends in Russia.
Saving up money. Yes, they are always in short supply. And I set aside 1, 5, 10 dollars, as soon as such an opportunity appeared. When I saved up a thousand dollars, it seemed to me like a million! Because the weight of this amount was all my efforts.
From the second year it began to become easier. Now it’s already nice to turn back and say to yourself: you are cool, you could all!
Anastasia Kara's original column published on the blog «Queen in the USA on Yandex Zen
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