Think about a time you started something completely new and different. Maybe you changed schools or moved to a town or even visited a new place. Share your opinion: what was the hardest part?

The hardest part was adjusting to new people around me. All of a sudden, I was surrounded by strangers, people I didn't know at all. We moved to a new town where we knew nobody. I felt lost, lonely and uprooted. I didn't have one single trustworthy person I felt I could refer to. Everybody was nice to me, all the new teachers and the school principal and my classmates. They had to be nice since I was new. But they kept their distance and they weren't really interested in getting to know me better. I began to panic and feel desperate, fearing loneliness and rejection. I though I would always be a stranger to them, a person that doesn't belong here. This was the hardest part of the move for me, I didn't mind the change of the geographical location at all, what bothered and upset me most was the distance I experienced while making first time contact with the locals.