moved somewhere new where i don't know the slang and i feel like i'm learning a whole language

First week at a new school where I don't speak the language well yet. Ate lunch alone again. It's fine. It's not fine.

does anyone else feel homesick for a place that doesn't exist anymore

Made a friend at my new place. First one in three months. Small thing. Huge thing.

i translate for my mom at every appointment. i'm 15. sometimes i just want to be the kid.

How do you handle it when your parents compare you to your cousins all the time?

Caught between two cultures and feeling like I'm not enough of either. Anyone get this?

Taught my friend a word in my language today and they kept using it. Made me happy.

I'm the translator for my parents at every appointment and it's a lot for a 14 year old. Just needed to say it.

Wore traditional clothes to a school event even though I was scared people would stare. A few asked and it was actually nice.

Being the translator for my family at every appointment is a lot. Nobody asks if I'm okay.

Made a friend at my new place who also just moved here. We don't share a language but we share lunch. First one in months.

moved schools mid-year again. i've gotten too good at the "new kid" walk and i hate that.

New country, new alphabet, new everything. I aced my first spelling test here today. Small but it's mine.

My parents want me to be a doctor. I want to make music. We don't really talk about it anymore.

I speak two languages at home and neither one at school. Sometimes I feel like I don't fully belong anywhere.

how do you tell your parents you want to do something creative when they only see it as a hobby

Made a dish from my grandma's recipe and it tasted like home for the first time since we moved.

said a word wrong in english today, someone laughed, and i've replayed it about 400 times since

New to this country. I understand the words but not the jokes yet. It's lonely in a specific way.

my dad and i don't talk much but he fixed my bike without me asking. that's kind of his love language

Spoke my first language with a stranger who spoke it too. We both lit up. Missed that sound.