MY EXTENDED FAMILY

BY DEBBIE CHIBUZOR

When I arrived at Principia College, I had to face a drastic change from what I was used to. I'd grown up in a city, and all of a sudden I found myself in a place which seemed to me to be in the middle of nowhere: lots of cornfields and no street noises or anything similar to the city environment I was used to. It felt so different to wake up at school and not be surrounded by all the members of my family or my friends. I knew nobody at college, and everyone seemed to be different from me. And even though they were all very friendly, it just didn't feel the same as being around people I'd known all my life.

In 2005 I moved to the United States from Nigeria. I had never lived away from home before, not even in a boarding school. But at 19, I left home to attend Principia College, knowing I could not go back home for two years.

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