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On the Saturday of October 22, 2016, I went to Zahra’s apartment after a lunch meeting near campus. I took public transportation through bus route 24 then route 15 to East 12th Avenue right off of Colfax Avenue. It took a little over an hour to get to Zahra’s apartment, luckily because her apartment is only five minutes walk from the bus stop. Zahra and her husband both came down to welcome me and let me in. Then we had a conversation about both of our lives and cultures in the living room for about two hours. At the end of the visit, she was surprised that I took public transportation to her home and was nice to walk me out of her apartment complex and told me how to get back to the bus stop.
The trip back and forth with public transportation was common to me, because I live without a car for the first three years I was in the United States. When I started my first job in Chick-fil-A, I had to spend an hour and half to travel to the store that would only take fifteen minutes if driving. That was the first job opportunity given to me in the United States and I could not appreciate more, so I took the bus for the first week. After travelling there for three interviews and for first couple days at work, I told my parents that I could not make it without a car and they eventually bought me one. With that experience, I really understand how difficult it is to try to be on time when you have to make a transfer in the middle, and how the long trip on the bus or light rail can

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