Immigrants have to figure out how to live in our culture, especially when they have school children who have American friends. A big struggle for some of them. - - Donna Poisl
Article by: ROSE FRENCH, Star Tribune
Teferi Nigatu dreamed of this Christmas for years. It's the first one that he, his wife and six children will spend together in the United States since arriving from Ethiopia.
To celebrate the holiday, they've trimmed a tree, exchanged gifts and "played Santa" -- traditions they didn't observe in their native country but are embracing in their new Minneapolis home.
"Every person is waiting until the last day, wondering with great joy what is in the [gift] box," said Nigatu. "It's full of excitement, the waiting. That's what makes me like Christmas [in America], because there is excitement in the patient waiting."
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