You’ll see, you’ll fall in love with this place in no time.”
The playground was big, and that boded well. I had always
dominated playground politics. It was an international school, and I
discovered that about seventy percent of the student population were
from South Korea, which sounded like a magical place. My mother had
told me that there might even be other students from England. Having
someone from England in class might make me feel a little closer to
home, even though I was hundreds and thousands of miles away. But
it turned out to be Korean friends who took me under their wings and
made me feel at home.