How do you feel about your accent?
I was fourteen when I came to the US. I wasn’t immigrating then. I was spending a year in Oklahoma as a foreign exchange student. From Moscow to Oklahoma! Kansas and Oklahoma to be precise. I spend the summer in Wichita, Kansas, attending a language school, and then moved to Oklahoma, where I was placed in junior year at Enid High school. Why I was a junior — I have no idea. I was a lot younger than most kids. In both Kansas and Oklahoma I lived with a host family.
Before America, at my Russian school, we were taught British English. In America of course I had to…