In this article, Saira Shah speaks extensively about being Afghan and living in Britain. She remembers helping her father cook many Afghan foods, and he would tell her stories about Afghanistan. He said that stories are not the same as experience, the stories are just facts, and explaining feelings. An experience is feeling what happens, a story can never replace an experience. Sometimes, when Saira and her father were in the kitchen, they tried to make their own meaningful experiences and plan trips to Afghanistan. Her father says that the stories that he tells her are her community. She wants to go to Afghanistan, her father doesn’t want her to go, he says that she has enough of Afghanistan where they are. I like how this immigrant family,
