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Yu finds home at San Gabriel

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At the age of four, junior Jiaxin Yu has moved to nine different schools. Yu’s experiences in the different communities have shaped her into the person she is now—giving her “social [with] people skills.”

Yu started out in her elementary schools in the San Gabriel Valley (SGV) area: preschool at Washington Elementary, kindergarten at Wilcox, first grade at Dewey, second grade in Rice, and third to sixth grade at Sanchez. Things started to change when she entered the seventh grade at Temple Intermediate, and in eighth grade, she suddenly left the SGV and moved to Tuffree Middle School, which located in the Orange County. In ninth to tenth grade, she continued to stay in OC and attended Troy High School.

“I moved to Troy because my parents had a shop over there and they were creating more branches of their shops,” Yu said. “My parents also wanted to [move] and for me and my brother to have a better future.”

In her new environment, getting a cup of boba was not easy and there were not a lot of Asian people. Yu had difficulties adjusting. However, these were not the only problems Yu had to face.

Even though she finds moving to different schools to be “really fun,” it is also sometimes “rough because [she] didn’t really fit in with the kids and would have to make new friends every time [she moved].”

Although Yu was in the girls basketball team at Troy and made close friends, she still missed the SGV. Whenever she visited her friends in the SGV-which was nearly every weekend-Yu would find herself having more fun within the two days at SGV than she did in the OC. She felt that all her close friends were not in Fullerton, but in the SGV, and Yu dearly wanted to graduate with them.  

To show how badly she wanted to move back to the SGV, Yu made a sacrifice and left her parents and brother in Orange County to live with a relative in San Gabriel.

“I stay with my grandma and every weekend I would go visit my parents or they would come down here,” Yu said.

Yu is now attending San Gabriel High School (SGHS), her ninth school, for the 2017-18 school year, where she is finally with her closest friends. Yu plans on attending SGHS for the rest of her high school life and graduate with them.

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