If having a teacher with pink hair, having people jabbering at you in a language you don't understand and reading books about a dog named Spot who only runs around with two little kids named Dick and Jane is paradise, then Maria is knee deep in it. Paradise sure isn't what she expected. She had expected wonders and excitement, not fear and stomach aches every single day. She hardly ever sees her parents these days and she certainly doesn't understand this English everybody speaks to her in. She misses the familiar. She misses her grandparents. She misses being able to talk to people and she...