Ilona Shaoul ’28

Ilona Shaoul is a music composition major from Vermont. She also lived in Germany and Canada as a child. She has always loved writing, especially in the form of songwriting and poetry. She is grateful for the opportunity to share a piece of writing that discusses matters of the immigrant experience, a topic she feels closely tied to because of her expat past and her two first generation immigrant parents. Ilona would like to thank her professor, Nicole Colwell, for pushing her to share her essay with the greater SUNY community.