I recently made it to a new country where I’m studying and hopefully will migrate to. It’s been a while since I last talked here and things then were very difficult for me. Thank you for your support then I really needed it. It’s still difficult to be honest but I’ve been doing so much better here. It took me years of seriously looking into and over a year of getting legal stuff lined up and doubling down on savings.

I’ve gone through a divorce and watching multiple good friendships dissolve over long distance. I’ve been fighting with bureaucracy every day, I don’t have a phone plan or internet at my home yet because of it. Without a phone plan I can’t connect to the internet to translate stuff or get directions anywhere when I’m away from the school wifi. I miss my cat but for now he’s being fostered by really good people who love him.

But I’m here, I’m away from the US, I’m making it work every day. I already know a lot of basics about what I’m choosing to study here so I’m spending most of my effort early on building new relationships and helping other students learn. I’m project lead in our current assignment which isn’t something I thought I’d like but I think I’m actually not bad at it. I’m really proud of what I’m doing in part because it’s so difficult for me and I’m pulling it off.

  • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zipOP
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    12 days ago

    I visited for the first time just a few months before moving as a last minute “I should probably check in person if I’ll actually be able to stay sane here”. It was me and my best friend for a couple of weeks, we’d previously gone to Taiwan together a year or so before too. So even knowing we work well together it was still a wild time running around here trying to not be too overwhelmed. The first day after I moved here I fucked up a bus route and wound up crying on the side of a highway trying to figure out how to get back home. I didn’t have a bed until day 3 we just slept on the floor and used jackets for blankets. It’s been overwhelming for sure this is the most wild thing I’ve ever done in my life but I wouldn’t have it any other way

    And yeah I’m working so hard to get on a phone plan. There is a lot of stuff that needs to happen for it. Basically it is get a residency permit, get an ID card, get a bankID, use that to sign up for a phone plan. I have my residency permit and I’m halfway through getting an ID card. It’s a lot of spend a couple days gathering papers then shipping information off and waiting for 2-4 weeks to see what they say