summersaad

Who ever thought that the experience you regretted the most in my life would someday make you feel very fortunate? You see it all started when my dad got a new, and better job overseas. In a country I had never even knew existed. A extremely small country named Qatar. Being a young girl in middle school with all the friends I grew up with. This news was the most appalling news I had faced in my 13 year s of living. Lets just say that moving to the middle east was extremely horrifying. But little did I know it was only about to get worse. When we finally moved there and settled g and my 3 siblings were all enrolled in a American system school that had students from head start to 12th grade all in the same building. That’s where I faced the most racism and sexism a 13 year girl could see. Not only was I being discriminated against because of my brown skin but I was also being discriminated against because of my sex. Here I am an American girl who has never encountered such behavior, never been in any sort of situation like this. not only was I dealing with just having move across the world but now all of this? I thought I would maybe join some sport teams to make new friends and socialize but unfortunately basketball was only for boys. Soccer was too. So what was there to do? That’s when depression kicked in. I couldn’t step outside my house for some fresh air without being bothered somehow. At that time I didn’t feel like there was any reason to continue living. The most disturbing thing I believe was the 4 year olds using the n word and all these other racist and degrading terms. The children weren’t to blame. I blamed the parents who as, responsible, adults should set a better example for their children. This is how they’ve been raised, that somehow they were superior to everyone else. Everything there parents say, they say. Two years later my parents decide that its best that we move back, because education wasn’t good at all. Now as I look back I’m actually glad that I got the opportunity to move and experience a whole different world I never knew existed. You see before this life changing experience, I used to take the small things for granted. But who’s to blame? I didn’t know any better. And I share this story with as many people as I possibly can to show them how the small things we take for granted in America, like ladies having the same rights as men and everyone being treated the same for granted.