The Newcomer’s Notebook
Everyone’s a newcomer somewhere. Here’s what mine has looked like: a family of three, figuring out America as we go.
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“The unpolished chapters of starting over”
7. Not Starting Over, Starting Right
Some newcomers arrive with a plan already intact. Mine had to be rebuilt. I came to the US in 2023 with a bachelor’s degree in.
6. Scenes We’d Only Seen On Screens
We spent the holidays between two cities we’d only ever seen in other people’s photos – a few days in New York, then Washington.
5. Road To The Smokies
For the Fourth of July weekend, we finally did the thing we’d been talking about since we got the car – a proper road trip.
4. Our First Day Out
The city waited outside our door. We had no map, no plan – just the urge to finally step out and see where we had landed.
3. Days With Nowhere To Be
We finally got the keys. After weeks of hotel rooms and hunting, there was a door that was ours – rooms we could fill with our own rhythm.
2. The Quiet Of The First Days
Home, at first, was a hotel room. Two suitcases in the corner, a kettle that wasn’t ours, and that strange in-between feeling of having arrived.
1. From Hyderabad To A New Sky
It started with a form. Then another. Then the wait – that particular kind of waiting where you refresh a portal like it owes you an answer.
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