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- First Impressions
Individually or in small groups students complete this simple Comparison
Chart based on Borany's first impressions of life in New Zealand in those
first few months at the Refugee Reception Centre at Mangere and in their new
home in Porirua.
| | Cambodia | New Zealand |
| Weather/climate | | |
| People | | |
| Houses | | |
| Food | | |
| Clothing | | |
| Language | | |
| Shopping | | |
| School | | |
| Culture | | |
| Other | | |
- The person I really am
The following phrases are all used by Borany to describe
what she thinks and how she feels about being a refugee.
Students organise the phrases into a letter from a refugee explaining what
it is like being a refugee in a strange land.
- I feel embarrassed about being a refugee;
- it's very important for me to keep my culture;
- (most) New Zealanders think refugees come from under-developed countries;
- I lost everything - my house, my country and most of my family;
- Sometimes I feel like a person with nothing at all;
- I felt different from everyone else;
- I felt very alone and cried a lot;
- I found the language very difficult;
- I often judged what people said in the wrong way;
- I worried about doing the wrong thing;
- In Cambodia my father had been at university, now he was working in a
factory;
- I don't think much about Cambodia but it's always inside me.
This material has been produced by UNITEC Institute of Technology
under contract to the Ministry of Education.
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