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…