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Outsider Looking In Experience

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When I first moved to the United States I felt like and outsider looking in because I was born in West Africa Ghana and for a foreign moving to a whole different country u are bound to feel like an outsider looking in. for me I was I didn’t understand the American system so I lost most of the time and I didn’t ask any question because I was too shy to ask and I did not have any friends to interact with to show me my way around the system so that made me feel like an outsider looking in. I still feel like an insider looking in some situation, walking in a new class and telling people that am African and not knowing what there responds will be. But I learned a lot for these situation now I know how to interact with people better and it help

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