Culture shock: Adjusting to a new life in America

Every immigrant has a story, this is about a high school student who moved to North Dakota.    - - Donna Poisl

 By ABIGAIL WU | Century Star

BISMARCK, N.D. — The foreign halls are filled with throngs of people. Peals of laughter echo off the walls as friends chat while trekking toward their next class. As she glances around apprehensively, she cannot help but feel slightly mournful for the past, for the familiar.

Junior Zhang Jie moved to Bismarck from Nanning, Guangxi, China, in September.

"There's 60,000 people here," Zhang said. "And in the city I'm from there is 6,000,000 people."

Zhang moved to Bismarck with her mother, Meiying Edin, to join Charles Edin, now Meiying's husband.
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