Coming to the USA was a huge change in my life. It was a lot of firsts for me. I got in a plane for the first time, left my state for the first time, and saw white people for the first time. Yes, I was ecstatic; well who wouldn’t be? America was portrayed as a land full of honey in my country, Nigeria. But I was scared too; I had to leave all my loved ones behind – my best friend, my closest friends, my grandmas, my juniors, and even those I just say hi to. I left a familiar place to come into a strange land; a place where I knew no one – except for my family of course. Before I came here, I was in my last year of high school, so I thought I was going to be placed in 12th grade and then go to college, but life had other plans for me.
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