"And it was a shock for me coming here I left all my friends like you have to understand I was a teenager and when you’re a teenager, friends are the most important people in your life. So I left all of them behind including my best friend, which I grew up with....9 months after we were here, I started crying, that I wanted to go back to my country (Italy) but then it just got better because you get use to it, you stick with your relatives more, although my cousins where younger than me. I would play with them and baby sit them. You get older and met a boy and you fall in love, and you get married and then you start your own family but the teenager years have been little tough."