Migration/Immigration Assessment - Final Copy

“Boom!,” that was the sound of my Math book after it fell to the ground. There were only five minutes before the class started. I was in 6^th grade at AIS and it was nearly end of the school year. I was staring at Maria, my best friend. I heard her telling other people that she would be moving to the U.S. I was so shocked that I froze for five seconds.

“Are you really moving?” I started with a question, but my mouth couldn’t talk normal.

She nodded her head slowly. She explained that this country was making her to have push factors and America made her have pull factors. The push factors were lack of services, lack of safety, natural disasters, and persecution. There were traffic jams and accidents on the streets. There were so many rains and flooding everywhere. There were also storms. People also threw trash on the street. The pull factors were more wealth, good climate, better services, safe, less crime, and less natural disasters, better education, polite people. She said America was a rich country, they had lots of wealth, the climate was also good. Services were better than Vietnam and it was safety. I chat with her sometimes and I asked how is her life right now? She said there were also positive and negative effects. She said it was a shelter place, because there were many securities. But she was suffering from strain of school works, it was making her miserable. I think her life isn’t that bad, she lives in a rich family that a lot of things are affordable. She also said that she wanted to get into Harvard, that’s why she wanted to have a better education. She went there 2 years now, but I still miss her. The good thing is she comes back to her homeland every summer, I can hang out with her on those days.