My Life Of A Woman - 1708 Words

Pokharel 2 February 1st, 2009 -the day my family and I landed in the great United States of America, I flew in hearing about it being the land of opportunities and of freedom. I hated everything about Nepal. I hated the patriarchal system that was very much alive. I hated that being a girl meant one day being someones wife, someones mother not someone who was college educated and following her dream. I hated girls were expected to be light skinned, pretty, and well mannered-everything I lacked. Therefore when I flew in, I was ecstatic about living in such great place, a place I did not know much of but it seemed like paradise because I had known about Hillary Clinton- a woman who endured so much as a woman but still kept on flighting because she lived in a country where there was freedom to pursue anything one liked-even for a woman. Every immigrant has stories of them struggling as a minority; I believe that my parents were burdened with most of the struggles, At the age of eleven, hate was merely a word that I used to describe broccoli. I did not know there was a deeper meaning to it until I started school in the US. My first public school in the US was New York City school system. New York city is one of the most diverse city in the state. It represents almost all ethnicity so, when on the first day I saw students formed in a group based on their ethnicity I was surprised. What was even more surprising was the fact that the these group seemed to never interact withShow MoreRelatedMy Life As A Woman871 Words   |  4 Pagesthat I was different from my other siblings they never had the same problems as me, I never understood why. Since, I could remember I always threw away my Barbie dolls and stole my brother’s cars and action figures. 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