By: Dana Sepulveda
I remember my first day like it was yesterday, I was so nervous and thinking “what I was thinking when I wanted to come here?� because everything looked so different for me, the people was nice all the time but It was the first time that I realized that I was alone there, without my friends, without my family and I just hoped everything goes good in my experience. First thing that I could realized it was the way that you relationed with other people, hand shake, and I was just kissing everyone but they never respond that.
Then in a short time of period I could make friends, that help me in so many ways, trying to make myself comfortable in all places and showed me around Knox, well what we could find here, bowling nights, mc donalds and others towns. I didn’t think about the possibility to have this strong relation and friendship with them before I came here, i hope we can never stop talking because they were part of a big part in my life.
There is of course other kind of friends, that ones that only joke about your nationality, make the job more difficult, hit me all the time, and what else? Oh, make me happy. Because I think that friendship more than support each other, be by your side all the time is have a good time together and make you laugh more than any other thing and without it this experience wouldn’t be more interesting, and I can tell that I would never forget it. And of course I could never trust on them.
Track gave me the chance to meet new people and so different than others, but besides that I am the slowest in the team or I couldn’t never have a first place, more than that is all the time that I spend with them, all the good moments that I could never forget, the help that my friends gave me trying to make myself better than the last place that I always get in raices, it never worked. But I am happy to feel that I tried new things, and I am so sure that I would never run again.
Prom was something that I could never imagine before, something that I only could watch in movies and see all the dances there but had been on a real one with friends and special people is important because more than the party they made that moment real for me, they lived with me something that is going to be with me forever and I am so glad that I could spend time with amazing people.
My first orientation in Indianapolis made me realized how the world can be so small, how different is the people in so many ways and feel that they were in the same situation as me, how I could talk with someone about everything was going on, and trying to share every detail, there was very especial connections and strongest relations. This experience gave me the opportunity to meet so many people from other country, all part of the world and at the moment I am still talking with them, helping me in so many ways.
My teacher of Art, Miss Bishop, I think that she was one of the most important teacher in the high school that support me and help me in every idea that I had in mind and that made me think that they really take care of me, some of the teachers were really worried about my situation and how I felt when everything happened in my country, and I will be always keep them in mind. But no one like Se単or K!!!!! I think that he really changed my experience at the moment that I toke his class with all his jokes and advices for me. I did listen to him, like I never listen a teacher before and I hope he still loves me!!
There is only one thing of I think I would like to change, the fact that I just came here for one semestre. Meet all this people and they became so important in my life it makes me feel sad in some way, they are part of it now and at this moment I just want to keep them with me, every laugh and every advice that they gave me and that time that I was just frustrated the help that I received from them was the most important thing because when you are alone in one place with the fact that only one people can listen to you is something that makes you feel better. In some way they changed something in, and I don’t want to say goodbye.
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9. Just be yourself.
10. Never trust in American boys!