"You Are Not Alone" — The Message that Carried Me Forward
Chaeyoen was raised at Dongmyung Children’s Center and came to the United States as a YANA Study Abroad Program student in 2018. She started attending Rutgers University in Fall 2023, majoring in Psychology. The first time I stepped inside an American school as a foreign student, everything was foreign to me. Language barriers, cultural differences, and the diversity of students were overwhelming. I felt lonely and frustrated because I couldn’t express myself in English to fit in. This...
