-: The living experience, the fact that I felt
so well integrated into this community,
the feeling of belonging and the feeling
of a tight knit community, family thing.
I think that made me super comfortable
during my year in Penn State,
and that helped me when I preserve my relationships
and my friendships with everyone.
The students who are with me at that time,
who are not scattered all over the world,
but also the people who are still here at state college.
Faculty, staff, students, and that actually encouraged me
to remain in contact with everybody,
and it did pay off because we started a corporation
with Penn State my NGO, an NGO I co founded in 2015,
where we were able to send five Tunisian students
here to Penn State Law on scholarships.
So there are five other Tunisians this year
doing their LM's and hopefully there are four or maybe more
others that are coming next fall.
So, the living experience being in
a welcoming environment at state college,
that definitely was, it had a very big impact on that.
It wasn't just a place where I
got a degree and went back home.
It was somewhere I belonged for a while, and I still do so.