“When I first arrived, the translators at factories, hospitals and public institutions were almost nonexistent. If you got sick in catching a cold or scratch a part of your body, then the doctor can see it, but if the illness was inside you and you didn’t know how to express your symptoms it was a real problem, we were like a child without knowing anything.”
“In Peru we had a different life, even though we were not rich, we had a life, we lived everyday and enjoy with family and friends, the first time when I came to Japan I could not sleep well, I missed my family, got depressed, loss more than ten kg, I suffered a lot”
“I regretted leaving Peru for the first months. Besides, I could not communicate with my family for the first month. I do not know how I survived, it was a different context, day by day with hard work, many hours in factories, and after coming back to the dormI was alone again”