I had just gotten into a car, in a foreign country, with two strangers. As the car slowed down, I looked out of the window. I saw a run down house surrounded by barbed wire. I thought to myself: “this can not be where I am spending the next two weeks of my life.” My new host dad and I went through three gates leading to the house and we finally reached the front door. It opened up to a...

I chose schools that were in big cities,...