IT'S NOT AS EASY AS IT SEEMS
Leticia Meneghetti, 2021
When people look at me, they only see a regular girl with brown eyes, but they do not know what these eyes have seen, or what my heart has felt. I would hope that they would want to get to know me before they made their assumptions of who I am. It’s more fun if you make everything up and live your life believing in your own lies about someone else’s life.
Having to leave the place where I grew up, my family and friends, was not easy in any aspect. Before you can say a word, try to imagine yourself in the same situation, going to a foreign country where no one speaks the same language as you. It is pretty hard. Until this day my heart still hurts when I think about the people that I had to leave when I came to the United States. I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to see my friends and family again, but I still have hope.
Every day I know exactly what will happen in school. Teachers talking about how the students need to do their homework, taking notes, reading, solving equations, while trying to understand and do all that in a different language. However, what I got used to the fastest are the weird looks that people give me, the whispers saying that I do not belong here, and the judgment coming from someone who doesn’t even know my name. Pretending that I don’t listen has become a habit by now.