Excitement and a touch of nervousness go through Mazenah Mouhrat’s mind as she prepared for a very important milestone: her first day of high school in Canada.
“Think my first day at this high school, I’m not going to sleep,” she said ahead of last Tuesday’s start to the school year.
“I feel excited to meet new people, it’s like a new life.”
Mouhrat, originally from Homs, Syria, immigrated from Egypt in October of 2023, and has now started high school at Westdale Secondary School in Hamilton.
She said she’s most excited about making new friends, which she does everywhere she goes.
“I love to meet new people,” she said. Here’s how she plans to do it.
“Maybe I’m just going to go to them and ask them ‘what’s your name?’ ‘Do you want to be friends with me?’ or ‘do you want to eat lunch with me?'”