Hi, I understand you very much. I am extremely quiet person, plus a foreign graduate. When I started working in this country I was terrified. Being quiet and language barrier didn’t help. But nursing is a kind of job that makes you learn communication skills fast and I wouldn’t believe 5 years ago that I would still be a nurse and love it. It actually changed my personality a lot, I love working with people. I am in ER now and patient flow is very high, plus lots of doctors and other nurses around, we have a good team. Most important are your colleagues, if you have good people around it will not take much time to adopt. It amazes me how much I changed. I am still quiet, but at my job nobody would say that. You don’t have to change much; it will happen without you noticing when you learn your job and get confident. Just give it a little time and don’t be hard on yourself J