I Am Rovina Mansour

Hello, I am Rovina Mansour and I would like to share a short story about my life and my beliefs. I was born in Cairo, Egypt. I came from a conventional family who lived in a beautiful house together. I went to a Private Catholic Christian language school where we took all classes in English and had to speak English with our teachers and Friends. I was born as a Coptic Orthodox Christian like my family. My life was good and I never thought that one day we will move to the United States and will wake up and find myself in another world with people, that don’t speak the same language as I do, have a different culture, beliefs and traditions, and that I would be in the place where I would always just see in the movies, not in real life. There were those questions that I kept thinking and thinking about which are: How is it
Is it going to be really tough at the beginning to make friends? Am I going to be able to communicate with them? I didn’t know the answers to my questions until that day came which was the first day of school (8th grade). I didn’t really know the answers to my questions before that day because when we came here, I didn’t have the chance to know people since I was always with my family or friends who speak in Arabic.

And now there came the first day of school, after 40 minutes waiting at the bus stop for my bus, yes, I went to the bus stop 40 minutes early ( excuse me I am new here, What do you expect?!). After I arrived at School, I was really lost and didn’t know where to go and I decided to take a big step which is ASKING FOR HELP!!. I didn’t expect that I would do that, but I actually did and the person that I asked for help was really friendly and that was a good start. So, I took the opportunity to introduce myself and vice versa. We talked for a while and I never regretted asking for help because it turns out that we ended up being good friends. The bell rang, which indicates that I