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Petition Letter: Hi there I am Yunhao, a second-year international student from China. I have been through a tough period in which I cannot fall asleep before 4 am, which led to the absence of most of my courses in this semester. Hence, that¿¿s why I am writing this letter.

Stories began from last semester. It is the first time I have ever stay in a foreign country for such a long time. I joined a group of people from Canada, Hong Kong, south Korea and Taiwan. It was fantastic in the first place. However, then there were conflicts based personal or political interests. Some people in my group start to hate me. South Korean guy treated me as air; Taiwan guy started to slender China and its government, sometimes in front of me; After he apologize, he went next door to mock me where I can hear it exactly. They created so much mental pressure and bullying to me. I have to stay with my Chinese friends who are also discriminating targets. Other two Chinese friends named Jackson and James and I always work out together; although a friend of my Jackson, who named Samuel Liu is not that adorable. I do not like him in the first glance.

During summer vacation, I feel happy and proud of making European friends during summer school.

Since the experience I have had in Beijing is amazing, I want to make friends with domestic students with a status of being able to do myself, I joined sailing clubs eventually, because I had sailing experiences in China. However, many of the people group together, so when we tried to decide which two people were on same boat. I always had to join others. For why I got left behind, it was because most people are close-minded and not willing to listen to me talking about China.

Back to the houses condition: People in my house constantly play computer games at Saturday night. I played with Samuel and other two. However, here was one time I was really tired, and it was hard to say no, because I did not want to be left behind. However, I got dry eyes while I was playing it. I felt: No I need to quit. I cannot gain any pleasure while playing with them. Samuel always blamed the strange guy in our team. Moreover, there was no coordination at all. In real life, Samuel always like to step on the ground hard, and he liked laughing and screaming like a kid. It is annoying he can completely disregard other people¿¿s feelings. I tried to state that he is domineering in real life. However, while we are discriminated because we did not speak English in the game. Samuel did not say anything. I felt it meant he liked to bully the weak and afraid the strong, which I do not like.

Until mid-term, I was still attending classes. I signed up for a trip to Montreal on QUIC when semester started. I met a girl from America, and we are travelling together. Anyway, I post some travelling pictures on wechat. When we talk about it in the house, Samuel said, I thought that¿¿s a random girl you found on the street, and you just drag her to take pictures with you. I did not take it seriously in the first place, but it came across my mind later in an unexpected way.

Due to roommates kept staying up late, I did not want to see or talk to others. Basically, people lived in first floor talk until 12 or 1 am. Then it¿¿s Jackson and his girlfriend who would take showers and speak in the washroom until 2 or 3 am. Under these conditions, I need personal space badly and a little noisy would me not fall asleep also make me angry. I basically slept around 4 or 5 am, sometimes 7. Then got up around 12 pm, play some computer games by my-self, have a bowl of instant noodle or simply have nothing at night. I did not know to react when I saw others. I would be unhappy and angry. While the campus is too far away ,it is expensive to have take-out or go to restaurant every meal. It was impossible for me to make my own meals, since others would not really show concerns.

Then I HAD A PHYSICAL FIGHT WITH Samuel. I took a shower before going sailing, but I left my phone in the shower. Then Samuel took a shower. I knocked the door and tried to tell him I need my phone, can he close the shower curtain and let me in. he did not agree. I wait for like 5 mins, he opened the door and give me my phone.
Before I left, I decided to go to him and tell him I was unhappy about him.
He: For people like you, we have already put enough tolerance to you, I am not like you, I DRY MYSELF AFTER THE SHOWER. Do you remember that mattress, that mattress became stink because of you. It was totally because of you who did not dry yourself in the tub.
I: did you put a camera in the shower So you knew who dry themselves or not And what do you mean people like me So ¿¿your¿ people are noble then
Then he insisted on I made the mattress stink and kept saying people like me. Then we had a fight, no punching, more of wrestling. I was actually expecting this fight no matter I won or lose. I was on the ground, he did not punch me because he was afraid of me calling police. When everybody came, Samuel was busy telling his side of story. By these times, it came to me, oh this Samuel never took me as equal at all. It reminded of the time he mentioned he thought that American girl is just random, because he did not believe ¿¿people like me¿ would have girlfriends, not to mention a ¿¿white girl¿. That made sense that he would naturally figure it was me who made ¿¿the mattress stink¿. Well, for a person who¿¿s not richer than him and not cater to him I assume that was how he find me strange.

After weeks of not eating and sleeping irregularly, I went to live in a hotel for two days.
A significant conversation took place between my parents and me. I never told them before. In the first place, my mom cannot understand me. Then there were some connection problems, I cried, because I felt being abandoned. Then we began to realize that many of my personalities can find a trait on theirs. Like I want people to be equal, because all my mom¿¿s family was like that, and they have a pretty straight-forward personality. My father always thought too much. He would also think a sentence until mid-night. I was sent to best school in my city always while I grew up, it was never a lack of spoiled kid around me. They were richer than me, or at least they expressed that they are richer. I never liked any of them or join them. My rich uncle who has a big company used to give cold-violence to me and along living with them made me realizing a huge differences between people of different classes. I was always told to stay inside when uncle¿¿s friends coming no matter how hungry or thirsty I was which literally beyond my boundaries of tolerance. Also, my father went lunatic at the dinner which was before my cousin (son of rich uncle)¿¿s wedding. I was the one who stabilized him and sent him to the hospital under the age of 16. By that time, my father is a patient, so I was abused by my uncle in being ignored and such, and because people have ranks, so literally everybody listened to my uncle, since he¿¿s the boss. After that, I just have a subconsciously status that I would get into ¿¿fight or flight¿ every time I met rich and spoiled kids. Samuel reminded me of those and made harm to me.

Thus, what I am going to do is: raise my self-awareness. When I met the same people and being angry about it, I would ask myself: why would you feel that way It partly contributes to your parents¿¿ personalities which are within gene and unchangeable. Secondly, you are the one who took all the shit from your uncle and got abused which is clearly not your fault. Therefore, you have every right to feel anger, but it simply no need to. Plus, I am going to live alone next year, so it can eliminate lots of troubles for me. Also, I need to watch myself from making East Asian friends, since I have such a straight and equal personality, I find myself more getting along with western people. So basically, that¿¿s all. I mean I feel bad of not attending classes not sleeping regularly not eating regularly. But, hi, on the other hand, I knew what kind people I should avoid and how I should avoid them in my later life, those are precious experiences, isn¿¿t it

After all, that is why I want to drop both of my classes due to the absence of classes, which is caused by roommates¿¿ problem and the past trauma that came along with it. It is really hard for me to write this article without my counselor¿¿s help