My New Home?

To me, home was a beautiful place called Hong Kong. Until one day, the government system proposed the extradition bill, and then the political situation started going downhill. And more people have been arrested as the authorities have also banned any commemoration. Soon after, the beautiful place that I once knew and called home altered very quickly as China took away more and more of the citizen’s freedoms in Hong Kong. After all, China’s ambition to take full control of Hong Kong goes back many years from the moment the trading port was ceded to the British in 1842, the expectation was that Hong Kong would one day be a part of China once more. On March 15, 2019, the protests started. People were graffitiing on the China flag and throwing Molotovs at the police. Later, these protestors stopped, but the China government didn’t. Therefore, many people started fleeing Hong Kong to different countries, such as the UK and Canada, to escape the government of China. But even after everything that has happened, including leaving my grandparents and relatives to start a new life in Canada, Hong Kong is still my home. Now, unfamiliar with my new surroundings, when can I possibly call this place home?