New to the Parish: Tiantian Wu arrived from China in 2016
“I had this idea [to emigrate] a long time ago, maybe 15 years ago. My college in China was English education so that’s why I wanted to learn English in deep and I realised I wanted to move to English-speaking countries,” she says.
Wu’s plan was to move abroad to study, before returning home and resuming her job as an English teacher. “It was very dark and I had never driven on really dark roads because in my country, everywhere is really bright, and with the trees overhead, I thought I was in a forest. I was so scared. I stopped my car and cried, I was outside a pub and two men came out and were like ‘you did great’. I just followed Google maps and continued home.”“I didn’t have any connections so I tried many, many times and then finally I got experience about how to do the interviews and how to make Irish jokes.
I think Irish people really like when other people make them laugh. Chinese people, when we get together, we don’t talk a lot about funny things “I made loads of friends here, mainly Irish people. They’re very friendly and they like drinking. I’ll tell you this joke, some people told me ‘Tina if you don’t drink, you cannot make friends’. But I don’t drink any alcohol and I do make a lot of friends,” she says with a laugh.
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