00:15In my country, you have to have a
00:18still confusion before Malaysia.
00:20I was afraid in my country for not being safe.
00:24The reason why I'm not showing my face is because of my safety.
00:48I can see light, shadow, colors.
00:54I can see blue, white, green, sometimes red.
01:01I dream like an excited person because when I dream, I see everything very clear in my
01:09dream.
01:15My life back home was with my family who was doing everything for me.
01:20But I was more dependent because there is no special education.
01:25As a woman, you are not allowed to think about your career.
01:30I didn't appreciate that because as a human being, my dream was to learn how to live with
01:38everyone, not to be just dependent.
01:42Being blind in my country for me means seeing the world by the window, but not being able
01:50to do anything for myself.
01:58I came in this country, I have no family members.
02:04I was afraid of not understanding the language at all, and I had no idea about New York.
02:13I did not plan to stay here at all.
02:16I was still thinking about returning back to my country.
02:24When I met my counselor at the commission for the blind, she said the commission is going
02:30to help me to learn how to navigate by myself and to go back to school and to get a
02:38job.
02:40Among all those things that she said, the most exciting things for me was learning how
02:48to use the cane, because all my life I could not move from one place to another place without
02:55being guided.
02:58That represented giving me my freedom.
03:02I decided to stay here.
03:13I'm in school every day, Monday to Sunday.
03:18My major is science.
03:20I plan to be a psychiatrist.
03:25Islam is my light.
03:28It's a guide for me.
03:29I go to the mosque almost every Friday to pray.
03:35I'm most grateful for being alive.
03:40I am grateful for being able to read and write.
03:45Being able to read braille.
03:48To feel the words, the spelling.
03:50I'm so happy when I'm reading braille.
03:55I don't have everything that I want to have, but at least I'm seeing where I'm going.
04:03I'm seeing my dream.
04:05I'm seeing the direction where I'm heading to.
04:09America felt me my freedom, my safety.
04:13They helped me to make my dream true, to make my dreams real.
04:23mysteries
04:29mets
04:30earth
