Katarina has had many successes in America, we know that being an immigrant is challenging.  Katarina, like many of you reading this, has shed many tears during the uncertainty, struggling through times of lack or loneliness or the pain of just not understanding the US education, immigration or housing system or just getting lost on the subway system.  On multiple occasions she had to ask for help and Katarina says people were always willing to help.  But you have to ask, she admonishes.  As immigrants, sometimes we are too proud or ashamed to ask for help.  But it is impossible to succeed in a foreign country without support.