Adjusting to a new school, no matter how social you are, will always be tricky. Having to remake your entire life that you’ve been building up for so many years from the very beginning is a tough and tiring process. That’s something that freshman Sasha Woods has to deal with since moving to Millard South. However, her case has a heavier load to it than that, because not only did she move schools, she moved all the way from Germany.
Woods first moved to Germany from Florida when she was three years old and continued her life from then on. She attended a military base school, where she was taught English and German simultaneously, and had eight classes a day, unlike her now four block schedule at Millard South. She stayed there until she was thirteen years old before her dad, who’s in the military, was stationed in the U.S. This meant that she had to throw away the life she had been building up for as long as she could remember.
She was unhappy at first but knew that the only thing she could do was accept it. “It was very hard adjusting, [and] I was a little depressed for a few months,” Woods shared, “but, you know, life goes on.”
Woods continues to share how most of her family lived there and how most of her friends were now gone, which were some of the causes as to why she was so upset when she had first moved.
Despite leaving her life behind back in Germany, her life in the United States has still been fun and entertaining. She has found enjoyment in school activities that she wasn’t able to do/didn’t have the time for in her previous school. “I’m in marching band right now,” she said. “I was also thinking about joining the swim team.”
All the comparisons between the two countries had me wondering what made each place unique, so when asked about the difference between Germany and the U.S., she responded with, “I’d say it’s pretty different [from the U.S], there are lots of festivals and traditional places that you can go to, but honestly, it’s usually the same stuff.” She adds on later that adjusting to the lifestyle of the United States wasn’t too bad because of their similarities.
While her time in the States hasn’t been a negative experience, Woods has expressed that despite all the new opportunities she’s met with, she would still like to go back to the place she called home.
“My life was just better there,” she stated. “It was more comfortable for me.”
