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Farima attended school up until she had to leave Afghanistan. Before the Taliban entered her community she was waiting to be accepted to a university in Afghanistan. \u201cWith the Taliban we thought it [education] was not possible for us anymore.\u201d She is now working on her high school diploma. She started her senior year of American high school September 2022 and is set to graduate in June 2023. Farima stated that the schools here in America are more more different than Afghan schools. American schools mostly only speak English while in Afghanistan they speak languages such as Dari or Farsi. Farima noted that schools in America are more developed than they are in Afghanistan. \u201cHere [in America] they\u2019re working with you\u2026 giving us a lot of support and trying to find ways to teach so we can learn easily.\u201d Farima said. When she completes high school Farima would like to become a nurse. \u201cWhen I entered America, I get to complete my studies, to achieve my goals\u2026 I am happy to be here and continuing my education.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Farima concludes \u201cI would like to tell you that we had a life, we had an education, and we had a family back home. We left everything behind, now we are here to start from the beginning. All the Afghan families who are now in America, in different states, in different cities, and especially here in Pittsburgh are trying to make their life new, like a second life for them. They have to learn a language, they have to continue their education and also, they have to be very, very patient because a new life will take a long time [to adjust to]. It\u2019s not easy, it will not happen in the blink of an eye. We have to be very, very patient. We have to study to earn something good and to be a good addition to society, and that is our goal. We hopefully will achieve that. We are living our second life here.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Farima is not only a high school student, but a wife, mother, and refugee looking to give her little family a better life. Farima, 19-year-old, and her husband are from Afghanistan and have lived in Pittsburgh for over a year with their son Mosawer who they welcomed in August 2022. The couple married a year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[15,13,7,16,14,6],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-profiles","tag-hello-neighbor","tag-people","tag-pittsburgh","tag-profile","tag-refugee","tag-refugees"],"yoast_head":"\n