At home I lived within a community, where my personal bonds with different people such as my family and my friends were very important because I could trust them and share my worries and feelings. When I first arrived in the new country, people’s faces were strange and unknown to me and I missed the sense of security that my family and friends provided. Even if it was not always easy and I had to choose well my real new friends, I started establishing new relations with different people, which was very important because now I have expanded my social network and this has brought me closer to the host country.