Morphing into a rainbow of people and cultures
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Seven years ago, I stepped into a place I now call my second home, with people I now call my own 鈥 Shanghai American School. Despite its name only mentioning two countries, I have met and befriended people parading dozens of shapes, sizes, ethnicities and beliefs, all of whom have become a small part of me.
When I first landed in this foreign land, I was still tanned from four years on the beach of Ipanema, and I bore a head of long, silky hair, draping like silky tassels down to my hips.
But as my bronze coat began to wear off, a new identity sought its way into me. I was no longer just a Chinese girl tinted by the salty, boisterous air of Brazil 鈥 I allowed myself to be soaked in all sorts of colorful cultures, from friends with ethnicities ranging from India to Belgium. I morphed day by day, into patches of shades of white, brown, yellow, orange, pink, each representing the personalities, cultures, ideas, that I was exposed to, and the way people鈥檚 words and actions made me feel.
Now, as the classrooms seem to grow smaller, and the people around me grow bigger, I find myself fulfilling larger community roles such as taking part in the student council, honor societies, and pursuing new hobbies like track and field that I never would have thought to attempt seven years ago when this was just a new school. Today, I proudly call it my school, with people who share my interests and accept me for who I am.
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