Simone Giertz

And I moved.

Sorry, 10 to 16-year-olds listening to this.

But like, I just can't believe I did that.

And yeah, I didn't speak the language.

I got placed in like a small city with almost no foreigners.

Yeah.

It was just a constant audience of people staring at you because they haven't interacted with a lot of foreigners before.

And yeah, it definitely.

And then after that, I moved to Kenya and.

I think that was one of the reasons why it was so interesting to move to the States because people were like, oh, isn't it like hard with the language barrier or the cultural difference?

And I was like, this is nothing.

And I could speak the language, like I could speak English well and I could kind of pass as an American even just as I moved here.

And it was such a relief where I was like, wow, I'm like an undercover foreigner because I got to a point where I realized like it doesn't matter how good my Mandarin is.

I'm never, people are never going to,

fully accept me here so yeah and you moved you uh went to kenya you've spoken about this after your parents got divorced yeah when did i talk about that i didn't realize i told that story i know i know so many things what do you think this is is it from when i have my amazon echo installed yeah i yeah so i came home i came home from china first time i was there for a year and

It's one of the most turned upside down days of my life.

I spent a year there and I was so excited.

I had really rough year and I was so excited just to come home and like be a child again.

I remember thinking and just like feeling like I belonged.

And then I,