THANDO My father will be gone for a few days. I actually wanted to talk to him about something; I have been preparing for it, but today when he came and asked me to talk to him, everything I wanted to tell him just crashed in my head, and I was blank, pretending to be okay. I am not okay. A lot happened in the past year, and I wish I could say I don’t regret most of it, but I do. I became greedy and made a couple of mistakes. Now I am going to live with it for the rest of my life. I cry about it every day because I had to leave my home to live with my actions in a foreign country and deal with everything alone. It was so hard, but I survived not only for myself but for the people around me too. The United States was nice to me. The people there were so welcoming, and I quickly got

