My Story

When I was five, my family and I moved from Denmark to North Carolina because of a job offer my dad got. Although I was only five I remember vividly the fear of leaving my friends and family behind and going someplace new. We packed up the house and sent some of our...

Immigration Story of my Dad

My father made a drastic, life-changing decision to emigrate from his native country of Turkey to come to the US. He came to the United States when he was 20 years old. He decided to come for his graduate’s degree at NCSU just after finishing his undergraduate’s back...

Claire Komischke’s Story- Hannah George

Claire Komischke was born in Mannheim, Germany, but at the young age of seven years old, she moved to the United States with her family when her dad was offered a job in Cary, North Carolina. Her family didn’t know how long they were going to stay, so they went into...

Ella Jones Story – Maddy Walker

Ella Marie Richard, a Canadian from St. Antoine, New Brunswick, was born August 28th, 1943.  She is the 2nd child and the oldest daughter of 14 children, 3 boys and 11 girls.  They lived is a 2 story house with 3 bedrooms upstairs with bunk beds in the hallway. Her...

Alberto’s Story

My subject is a family friend, Alberto Scherb.  When he was 24, he left his homein Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico to come to the United States.  He worked for a company called Flextronics, and when he told them that he was going to switch companies, they offered him a...

Alex Zoetmulder

Eric Zoetmulder was born in the Netherlands in the small town of Aerdenhout on December 23, 1970. He now lives in North Carolina with an American wife and three kids. Eric first left the Netherlands for Canada, living in Toronto for an internship for about 11 months....
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