pretty good. I had studied it since second grade in Russia. So English was actually not the problem. It was just more of a cultural experience, and particularly of the deep south, because the south is different. It's not like the rest of the United States. So I can only imagine what it was like for you to be arriving at a high school like that, and also for those kids. Like how they probably stereotyped you in their head. I mean, did you have a heavy Russian accent? Like fill us in a little bit on that. Like what was the cultural experience like for you and for them? Well, I'll tell you a quick anecdote. So we didn't go straight to the United States because our immigration system is, unfortunately, a mess. And we actually initially immigrated to Canada. So I was in Toronto for about a year, and then my dad ended up getting a job in Chattanooga, and that's why we moved there on an H1B visa for him. And my first day in school in Chattanooga in Toronto is actually pretty easy to (6/57)
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