Kianoush Behinaein, 16, was born on
November 10th, 1998 in Esfahan, Iran. Kianoush came to Roanoke, VA when he was
four years old with his mom, dad, and sister, Ofegh, who was 12 at the time. They
mainly moved to the U.S. so Kianoush and Ofegh could go to college because in
Iran, college was not an option for them. When Kianoush first came to the US,
he nor his family knew any English. “After maybe six months I was fluent in
English,” says Behinaein.
Soon after moving to Virginia he switched
between Grandin Court, Raleigh Court, and Highland Park throughout elementary
school, then went to Woodrow Wilson for middle school, and is now a junior at
Hidden Valley High School. “At my old school it was acceptable to make fun of
people because that’s just how we joked. When I started at Hidden Valley, I had
to change how I acted towards people because it was different here,” says
Behinaein. Now in his third year at Hidden Valley, Kianoush has comfortably
adjusted.
After
leaving Iran, Kianoush has only returned once when he was nine to visit family
and relive some old experiences. The Behinaein family stayed in Iran for one
month over the summer of 2007. “The first two weeks I was there I had food
poisoning from expired ice cream so I couldn’t do very much,” says Behinaein.
After recovering, he hung out with his family, went some of the parks there,
and went out to eat quite often. Kianoush says that besides the pizza, the food
isn’t very good.
by
Rachel Wills
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