our group has read about 10,000 essays this week. the essays are all immigrants in ma. here's a list of the countries they're from (that i can remember)

ghana, spain, dominican republic, haiti, vietnam, thailand, peru, argentina, moldavia, kazakstan, russia, congo, china, japan, puerto rico (not really a country, but not a state either!), congo, sudan, columbia, bosnia, india....not one mexican or canadian. go figure.