Many people have been lucky enough to get to know Savita from Pakistan, who is attending FHS this year. She is ready to share any information you want to know about her country. Also, she has been giving us a taste of her culture by painting henna tattoos on students and faculty.
Savita is from a town called Gilgit which is in the north of Pakistan. It’s a beautiful, mountainous region with a chilly climate. Her school in Pakistan is very large: there are fifty kids to a classroom (and the classrooms are the same size as ours!). After school, she attends a religious school. She is an [Ismaili] Muslim, and attends classes for her particular sect. However, she goes to her daytime school with all different sects of Muslims, as well as Hindus and Christians. There is fighting in the Middle East as we all know, but Savita tells us that it is greatly exaggerated by the media. The borders are where things are sometimes violent, but Savita has never seen any violence occur. She has traveled all over Pakistan and has seen almost all of the northern part of the country. She shared that it is a difficult process to get into the U.S. as a Pakistani person. The visa process is long and expensive.
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