Moving from Nepal to America and being pounded with a language that was so unfamiliar from what I had been hearing all of my life was a literal nightmare for my ten-year-old self. While I first landed at the Chicago Airport, I had no idea that I was beginning a new life in a new country with people who looked, sounded, and behaved so differently than me. This experience is something that I now look back on and realize how different it was for me to relate to. The first day of middle school was a complete shock. I was seeing kids my age being in a relationship, this felt very weird because I hadn’t even had a single thought about dating anyone at that age. It was embarrassing to roam around the whole school and still not figure out where the
