This is a true story about a middle school girl who experienced a high school life at Woodbridge High School in Irvine, Orange County, California.

Before I immigrated to America, I was almost gone through the half of the first semester in 9th grade at Kwangshin Middle School in Korea. When I transferred to Woodbridge High School, because of the strict regulations on the age limit in Irvine Unified School District, I had no choice but to skip the 9th grade and start my new years of high school as a 10th grader.

I had much difficulty in adjusting myself to the new life in...

Looking back at my first month of high school in America, I remember everything I did was full of awkwardness and uncertainty.

Adjusting myself to a new environment in America was challenging and became a lifelong experience that could make me stronger.

After I came to America as a foreigner, I made countless mistakes but I tried to ease myself by saying "Time heals everything." I gave myself time to adjust and tried to use time productively.

This book is about how I have led the culture club at an American high school as a foreign student who was just a fresh...

It has been almost 17 months since I immigrated to the USA, ever since then I experienced various kinds of things and I became a much stronger person.

I have made countless mistakes in making friends because of cultural difference and learned that I should keep a space between friends, be polite to them, and wait until friendship become stronger and deeper.

This book is a story about how I become a good friend to others and my special experience of making new friends at Woodbridge High School, Irvine, California.

I think you have almost the same questions I had...

This book is about my volunteering experience for NKinUSA, a non-profit organization for North Korean refugees and resettlers in America. I hope my story would encourage you to join the volunteer service for North Korean refugees and defectors in America.

My interest in the unification of Korea and the human rights of North Koreans have begun since when I was the 5th grader in Seoul, Korea.

The DMZ tour that I took as a student reporter sponsored by Korean White House and the conversations that I had with my grandparents and grandparents-in-law greatly motivated me to...