Priscilla Graduate Student University of California at Berkeley
I am a native of Chicago, but both my parents are West Indian immigrants who came to the U.S. in the Seventies. In 2003, I graduated from the University of Chicago with a B.A. in Comparative Literature. I decided to go to Germany in my junior year of college, because I had been learning German since junior high, but I never really had the opportunity or the money to go there. The summer of my junior year, in 2001, I received a Foreign Language Acquisition Grant (FLAG) and I went to Düsseldorf,...
