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My classmates are from all over the
place, from Southeast Asia, the

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Middle East, Europe, and some of my friends our
Korean, and some of my friends are from

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the United States and some of my friends
are from Thailand, and there's people who

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are from two different countries. I have
friends from all over the place and

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I love that, it's so great. At SSIS, the campus is really connected.

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You see people from every grade, kind of
getting together and knowing each other,

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everybody shares a common ground, we
become a kind of family.

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You know I might be kind of weird and you guys might be kind of weird–once we got past that and

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we found that we all just like being
integrated within the community and

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doing the things that we like to do,
that's how I became friends with the

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people that I'm friends with. It's a
great thing we have going here: everybody

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is really accepting of each other and
their backgrounds and there's always

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this respect that everybody has, no
matter if you've lived here your whole

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life or if you moved here six months ago.
International students have this

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understanding because they've been there, they've learned to accept people

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from everywhere, they've had this
experience of traveling to different

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countries and learning to respect others
cultures and I find that that is really incredible.