The question of moving abroad deems to be one of the major life changes which a person can experience through their lives. There are countless people who decided to change everything — their home, their friends, their families, their environment, their lives. People who never went through this process, might think “Was that a good choice?”, “Is it worth it?” or “Leaving behind all of the things worth it?” First, let’s point out, I’m not writing about life or death situations, where if you don’t leave your home you might be killed. It’s not about having a choice, it’s about survival. The ways to adapt in new environment is an another major rhetorical question. One story is to travel and enjoy the living in another place, but the other story is to leave all chains and completely move yourself in the new place. In the articles “My Story – Women Who Moved Abroad Series: Stories on How they Improved Their Career & Life” by Hannah Teslin and “Living abroad: The struggle is real” by Vinshu Jain, the authors share in detail their struggles in adapting to a new environment after their migration abroad.

Trips, travels for education and vacations are always entertaining and fun but when it comes to a real migration things change. When you are leaving all your connections, things and roots you lose something for yourself. Your life changes drastically. When you live in your home place for all your life you form some kind of a terrarium, where you adapted. Everywhere you look around have the people you know, where you every day wake up you see the same clocks on the wall, the same kettle you use to make a coffee, with still closed eyes you going in a shower before the start of the day, and as it goes in. When you leave your terrarium, you lose all of it. The environment which was adopted by yourself for decades can’t be achieved again. You lose a part of yourself in a moment when you take a seat in the airplane. In the article “My Story – Women Who Moved Abroad Series: Stories on How they Improved Their Career & Life”, the author speak of how she was adopting to a new environment and how she faced the struggles of doing it. You don’t know where you are, you can’t understand the people around because they speak different language, those people have a different culture. Some things that where normal at your home might be inappropriate in the new place. These things can be related to speech, handshakes, how you throw garbage out, and many other things that are where common in your old life but the people in your new live see them inappropriate or weird. However, Hannah Teslin was never alone in her new experience — she moved to her boyfriend, so there always was someone to support her in the end. The author of “Living abroad: The struggle is real”, faced a harder reality. He was the worst example of hothouse plant. All his childhood he was greatly cared by his parent, and when he moved to a new place he wasn’t able to act by himself. Everyone around him was unique and intelligent, while he was standing and understanding what is going on around. When you form relationships in adulthood people act differently, the seek for profit rather than pure friendship. No one is going to help you, you got no friends or family around, you are absolutely alone, that’s how Vinshu Jain felt himself.

In both articles authors share how complicated it can be to change your life. But the authors in them have one difference. Whether they where alone in their experience or not. Vinshu Jain uses Pathos to describe how he struggled to survive in a new place. While trading his article you feel yourself that he have a lot of problems adopting to a new environment. “The loneliness of living independently in a foreign land hit me hard. Real hard. I broke down a lot of times. In fact, I still do. I will shut myself out, cut communication from everyone else, and just sit and cry.” Hannah text has a different style and tone of writing. First of her article is rather an interview than an article. The technique she uses the most is ethos. She is trying to show the difference between the way she lived before and now. When you are reading her interview you don’t feel the pressure which you had when you were reading Vinshu’s article. “However, to this day I can’t say being an expat is easy, I am very frustrated by the different mannerism people to have, how I never feel like I fit in, and how some things which are done here just don’t make sense to me.” The tone of speech is enthusiastic and warm rather than stressed and tired compared to Vinshu’s article.

In conclusion, “My Story – Women Who Moved Abroad Series: Stories on How they Improved Their Career & Life” by Hannah Teslin and “Living abroad: The struggle is real” by Vinshu Jain vividly convey the authors’ emotions, struggles, and experiences during their journey to a foreign land. One experienced critical losses while changing his environment, and other experienced cultural differences in the foreign lands. Both articles offer relatable insights into the authors’ diverse experiences.

https://hannahteslin.com/expat-life-and-tips/the-story-series-how-woman-who-moved-abroad-advanced-their-career-post-1

https://medium.com/@jainvinshu94/living-abroad-the-struggle-is-real-3fdc35f69ebc