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My greatest challenge in coming to Wichita from my home of origin Last year in 12/25/2016, I came from Jordan to Wichita. Because I got married and my husband has been living here for 10 years, he working and studying here .In the beginning I was very surprised about a lot of things, such as the way of life, the lack of population density and also all houses are far from each.
One of hardest things, my English was weak and I have difficulty dealing with people and understanding them .the people here in the US are speaking very quickly and their English is different from the English I learned in my school in Jordan because we were studying British English. Cultures and languages vary from place to place. I faced

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