Hi.
Welcome back to eat your crust podcast.
I'm Crystal.
I'm Jisoo.
I'm Jenny.
Jenny is one of my really close college friends, and we thought that it would be really fun to bring her on this week to talk about a pretty unique experience that.
That not many of our friends have ever gone through.
So Jenny actually came to the states in 8th grade and did a homestay program in Wisconsin.
After that, she actually switched to boarding school in Pennsylvania.
So we thought that it would be fun to kind of hear about, like, your experience, what it was like immigrating over to the states by yourself at such a young age.
Yeah, I feel like there's so many questions that immediately come to mind when I think about this, but the first one that I have to ask is, like, how did you go about the decision to come and stay at a homestay, and what was that whole process like?
So I think for me, I was just a little too young.
I was 13 years old, so I was just too young to decide, oh, I'm gonna move across the country to like us.
So it was more so my parents decision.
So in Korea to go to college, there's, like, a very rigorous process where you study all day, every day for years to get into college.
So my parents didn't want me to go through that and wanted me to have more free lifestyle so that I can explore the world and decide what I want to do.
So that's why my parents decide to send me here.
And I was just like, oh, cool, I'm going to America.
So, yeah, that's why came.
And actually my brother came to America first.