The bell rang as I frantically ran through the narrow school hallway. It was my first day at an American school and I was hopelessly lost. I was born and raised in the small town of Asmara, Eritrea. At 15 years old my family and I made the arduous ( life changing) decision to move to the United States, the land of milk and honey (opportunities). Moving to the U.S meant that I could pursue a higher education and get a step closer to my goal of having a future career in medicine. *Insert.. talk abou the board of education in the second paragraph However, this was the farthest from my mind as I continued to run past different classrooms, trying to search out mine. My big move to the U.S was not starting out as I hoped. As the first few …show more content…
This experience pushed me to join a group called Liberty’s Promise, a club for helping immigrant students help better adjust to their new school. Soon after I joined I was elected president and decided to organize a group visit to the Board of Education. A couple of my club members and I visited the Board of Education in our county on July 14th, 2015. Our purpose was to share our stories of the difficulty adjusting to our new school and the lack of help we received. We proposed a couple of solutions to ensure that no one would ever find themselves in our situation when they moved to the U.S. One of these solutions included running an orientation program presenting basic information needed for immigrant students to thrive academically. This experience was nerve racking, terrifying but at the same time exhilarating. As a student, I had always thought that I held little to no real power to change anything that I saw as unfair or wrong. However, this event completely shattered that thought. I am proud to say that I and my companions’ speeches helped jumpstart plans into starting orientation programs for other immigrant students as well as