I finally graduated from high school and been rewarded with a full scholarship in dentistry in the United States. I was surfing the Internet when my dad came to me at midnight showing me a SMS he had just received from the Ministry of Higher Education. It was the happiest moment in my life. Finally, all my hard work and ass kissing paid off.
I didn’t hesitate, not even a bit, about moving out to live by myself. As a matter of fact, I was so excited about it that it had overcome all other emotions. I felt like I was being reborn again in a more wonderful place. I loved Kuwait and all the fancy life I was living, but that wasn’t the way for me to learn more about the world and myself.
Nothing during the whole moving process was easy. I had to struggle on doing everything! I had to fight to get into the university that I wanted. I had four choices and only one of them was appealing to me, Virginia Commonwealth University, which all graduate dentists had recommended.
My letter of acceptance from the university stated that I was going to start school in the middle of the fall semester; I had to change that so I wouldn’t be late for school. Long story short, I spent so much time cleaning after some irresponsible and lazy employees in The Ministry of Higher Education. Later on, I had to suffer during my flight to the USA due to lack of luck, -Click here for more information about the incident-.
On the 14th of August 2005, I had finally arrived to Washington, DC and “Jum’ah”, the embassy driver, was waiting for me at the airport. And that was when my real journey has started.

To be continued…

8 Years ago…
I was only a 12 years kid when I started realizing Kuwait wasn’t a place to study and build myself. I couldn’t see myself studying in such corrupted and diseased environment. On one hand fundamentalist Muslims were making life impossible in Kuwait, and on the other hand I was fantasized about living the American dream! And that was when I made my decision to study abroad once I’m done with high school.

2 Years later (High School)…
When I started high school, my friends were busy on everything except studying! However, I was what I like to call an “Undercover Nerd”. My life was extremely boring, but I was enjoying it.
My schedule was fixed and restricted. I made a rule for myself not to leave the house on the weekdays! It was a littlie bit intense but It helped me focus more on school. On the weekends I was a normal human being, playing soccer, going out for dinner, and enjoying good movies.
As I expected, high school was so challenging and hard. I ended my first semester with a 3.50 GPA, which was a shock, since it wasn’t competitive enough to get the scholarship that I wanted. Then, I realized studying hard wasn’t enough to get a good grade. Kissing asses was a mandatory to get the grade you deserve! I gradated from high school with a degree in hypocrisy and ass kissing!
When I first started high school, I still didn’t have an idea of what I’m interested in. One day I wanted to be an engineer, and in another day I wanted to be porn star! I haven’t figured what I wanted to be till the day I applied for a scholarship at The Ministry of Higher Education. At that moment I realized I wanted to be a dentist!

To be continued…