"I became hyper-aware of the fact that I was an immigrant"

K's parents drove the family's moving load from Ukraine to Finland, almost five-year-old Aleksandra Topchii got the red Seat Cordoba in the back seat. From there, he looked at the string of street lights and thought that moving abroad is great.

A year later, she turned six and got a pink sequined dress from her parents, maybe from a flea market. Wearing it, he got to see the piglets at the neighbor's farm, where his father worked. It was a wonderful and wonderful day.

After starting school, my view of Finland, myself and my family began to change. At school, you heard about other people's summer vacations, cabin trips, boat trips, parties and grandmas.

"It wasn't like I was told I didn't belong, at least not often. I started comparing myself and noticed what others had and what I lacked."

There was little money and life was therefore uncertain in many ways. The mother, who worked as a university teacher in Ukraine, could not get a job at first, so the whole family had to live on the father's small income.