I am Momoka Kim. 17 years old. Momoka means fragrance of peach blossoms. After the long snowy winter, people see the peach blossom and cense the fragrance. They know spring has come. Living in the small country, Japan, far north from the metropolitan. Sapporo is a city I was born and grown up. I was like a little rabbit in the deep snow, nobody can see, nobody knows where I am. I jumped and jumped, but my footstep sounds erased by the soft snow. I am invisible existence. No friend in the winter filed. Nobody knows where I am going, and I do not know where I am going either.
Since kindergarten to 7th grade, I was in the small community in Hokkaido, Hokkaido International School. Surrounding an almost same friends, same people, growing up together. They are almost same us myself. They behavior is almost same or easy to imagine what they will do. For instance, if there a new person, we together meet the person. We surround the person, everybody starts talks to the person. In this condition, nobody has mention, no need to get nerves, no need to worried, if the person will like me or not. I was always happy, just like protected by the shield, small community. My life is fine. I started to feel uncomfortable by surrounded small community. I eager to have wider perspective. I move to Japanese school one year. With asian face, Japanese name, I have no trouble there at school. Year by year, I started think about my future. With my dream to be a beautician, talking with many people and giving them a beauty and comfort. I will see many people, different races, different ages, different backgrounds, as a customer. I started worried about that I need to see more people and experience more. I pushed myself into "much wider environment where we can see many different races, disparity of wealth and so on. I transfer the school to Canada and went there by myself and pushed myself stayed with host family. In Canada, I was called "redneck",I became a target of discrimination at school. First one year, I survived with no friend at all. Because I was a little snow white rabbit in the snow filed, shy, introverted, and no communication with others at all. I was sad and lonely, felt very cold in Canada where I knew nobody, nobody knows me, nobody can not see me. Because I was shy. I did not talk anybody. I did not listen to anybody. I became aware of that I am the person who owns very popular hair salon, people keep coming not only to have nice hair done, but also have me there life partner to share their life stories. Behaving "most popular and warmest hear salon owner and in the popular magazine", I became good listener and good speaker. I became popular in the school that made me fruitful school life in Canada.