Jonny's Mom

My most vivid experience of being culturely different was the first time I sat down and talked to my best friend Jon's mom. Her name is Sherri and throughout the years we have got to know each other very well. Sherri loves to cook for us so when she would I would sit in her kitchen and talk to her. She would ask me about school and girls and what not, she always was so amazed by how the girls act in America. Sherri was born in Iran and was taught to cook and clean. She was arranged to marry Jon's dad when she was 19 years old. They soon after moved to America. So Sherri never experienced the freedom that children and young adults experience in the western culture. When I would tell her about the girls that I hung out with or the parties that Jon and I would go to she would just be in awe. She would laugh about it and joke with us but I could tell she didn't like how open the girls were allowed to be with the boys in American culture. I could always feel that she was uncomfortable when those conversations came up.