Right now, I am planning on transferring to either NC State or UNCC to study at top sports management programs. I am currently playing Division 2 soccer at Belmont Abbey College, but I feel like I am called somewhere else. I want to use a soccer ball to connect to families that are from similar backgrounds as me. Just like how my compassionate, loving, and caring coaches have mentored me, I want to mentor those kids as well. From there I realized that I wanted to help those kids. They were rundown and some families were living from paycheck to paycheck, and kids are influenced by bad people around them. From there, I have learned all about life with a ball at my feet.Īs I looked back on my experience in the refugee camps, I began to look at the neighborhoods around me. I became involved and played for a non-profit Christian soccer club organization called the Charlotte Eagles. As the years go on, I began to search for me what my goals and dreams were. Everything felt so new but from the beginning, I knew that I wanted to help people. When I was 7 years old, In 2009, we moved to the United States after years of waiting to be approved by the UN. We would go down to rivers to skip rocks and swim or even hike the mountains that surrounded our village and chased waterfalls. I had friends that I would hang out with every day to get our minds off of the harshness of our lives. I have seen all the horrors from rape, to murder, and the evil that is in this world. I remember starving most nights and all we could eat was rice. In the refugee camps, the United Nations only came once a month and they weren't enough to keep us "comfortable". My family had been in the midst of the longest civil war in human history, the Karen Conflict, which no one knows about. I am a refugee kid from Thailand and I have looked at War in its face.
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