Surviving in America: A North Korean Refugee's Story of Resilience and Bullying in US Schools My name is Kora. I have lived in the US since I was 5. My mother abandoned me in North Korea to live with my aunt and uncle when I was 2. I was all my aunt had after my uncle died and she decided to give me a happy life. She saved up all of her money and paid to send us into south korea. After a few years there she realized it was only a matter of time before we would be found and she. Took me to the US. We have lived here but in a bad financial circumstance. She is helped by the government because she is mentally disabled but not too severely that she can't take care of me. I go to a large public school now in Danville Wisconsin. Its my junior year. I have been going to this school since I was a freshman and its by far the most weird. The kids here are violent and there are fights nearly every day. In my grade there is a very violent group of boys that Ihave been bullied by since the first day. They are a group of guys who don't cut there hair ever This link (and.listen) is not approved. Submit this link for approval to metal. They hangout across the street from me at Jason's house. Jason has always bullied be and treated me like shit. I occasionally tolerate him when Iwanna buy some weed off him but I'm usually bitter towards him. Tomorrow is the last day before winter break and I'm anxious to get out of school. I spend most of class playing with my hair that I just got cut as a Christmas present from my sweet neighbor Dianne. …and then things took a turn