When I decided to go

Grade Levels: High School, Middle School Types: Lessons Questions: How should we teach about migration?, Who are the young people we are educating?

When I decided to go to the US

To meet my father for the first time in my life

I felt…

Happy and loved

I started to cry and couldn’t control my emotions

I will always remember this ordinary day, one of the happiest days

Of my life…

~Girl from Brazil

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