Post number 12

My Life in Three Different Countries

By: Salwae Sheen

My first country is Burma ( a country in southeast Asia ). I was born in Burma and I grew up and spent my childhood in Burma. first I had a peaceful life in my beautiful village surrounded by fields and forest before Burmese troops attacked my village. we had a house and farms. Every day I went to school and played. I had to leave Burma when I was ten years old because of the civil war.
Then, I moved to Thailand lived in a refugee camp. I spent 18 years of my life in a refugee camp in Thailand. I completed grade ten in the camp but I didn't have a chance to go to college or university. We were supported with food and housing but we were fenced in with a barbed-wire fence and we didn't have freedom to go out of the camp.
On May 2008 I came to the U.S for my children's destinie and also for me to get a better job and freedom. It is a big and developed country and every thing is new for me. I face many different problems such as language and how to get a job. The biggest problem for me is to find a job in the U.S.