Allison: “I first met Adea when she came over to ask to play volleyball with me. I was excited because we both had played volleyball back at our high schools. Then she began to tell me her story. She had a younger sister and an older brother, and a while back her and her family left their home country of Kosovo. She said it was because there is no future in Kosovo, and when you graduate there are no jobs or ways to support yourself. She said that you can go to college and get a good education and you would still end up cleaning bathrooms for a living. They started by moving from Kosovo to Macedonia, and then began their journey through many countries including Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, France, and finally Hungary in search of a better life. Her ultimate dream was to come to America and see New York. She wanted to become a nurse, but was frustrated because at the refugee camp she could not go to school. She was bored because there is nothing for her to do. In France she had been able to go to school and learn subjects like Math, but her family was arrested and told to come to Hungary after five months of living in France. In Hungary she did not feel accepted and did not know what to do with her time. She told me that her parents said they had to go back to Kosovo, even after all of this effort to find a better place to live. She did not want to go back, but she had no choice.”