"Well, Dad, I need help. Can you support me to go to America?"
I promised him that I would be the best girl, I will come back, anything they wanted after that, I will do it for them.
He said, "Well, but I can't do it alone."
He gave me a list of another 15 men that I went -- 16 more men -- every single morning I went and visited them.
They all came together. The village, the women, the men, everybody came together to support me to come to get an education.
I arrived in America. As you can imagine, what did I find?
I found snow! I found Wal-Marts, vacuum cleaners, and lots of food in the cafeteria.
I was in a land of plenty.
I enjoyed myself, but during that moment while I was here, I discovered a lot of things.
I learned that that ceremony that I went through when I was 13 years old, it was called female genital mutilation.