When I look at this picture of myself, I realize how much I've grown and changed, not only physically, but also mentally as a person in the last couple of years. Less than one month after this photograph was taken, I arrived at Boston University in Boston without any idea of what to expect. I entered my freshman year of high school as an innocent "Non-English speaker" girl from Albania who was about a thousand miles from her home and was a new member of the American Life. Around me in this picture are the things which were most important in my life at the time: reading books in English so…
