It is difficult to say what we have similar in mine and Zitkala-Sa's experiences,because her situation was many years ago,and it was different life and rules.But I think that there are some things that there are the same.
First of all,she had problems with language.She did not know English at all.Of course I can't say that we had the same problems,but when I came to USA my English was very bad,and it was difficult to communicate with people.It is very hard to live in new country with different language,and specially study,but just first time. Because I improved my English and Zikila after one year "was able to express somewhat in broken English".
The biggest different between ours experiences is that I went to another country for studying by myself,nobody made me to come here. And in Zikila's situation it is different.She had not got another choice,sha had to go to Quaker missionary school.Of course it is difficult to do something that you don't really want to.That's why my life in college is more interesting and happier,than her.But it is the same in our experiances that we did not know what will be in our school,we did not anothing about their life and their culture.As an example we can see in the reading that when Zikila had breakfast they did some things that she did not know.Sometimes it is happened with me,I did know where to go,what to eat,what to say.
As I said before,that my experience and experience of Indian girl were in different period of time.And there were diffirent rules,more severe that nowadays. But now, after this reading, I don't think that my experience is not bad.It could be worse,if I compared with story of a girl from reading.
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As you said our experiences are different than hers. We can assume certain things but in fact it's different because nobody pushes us to come here. It was very hard from the beginning but now we can feel better because at least we can let others know about what we are thinking and what we feel in broken English.
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