This is an incredible story. I hope it inspires young girls everywhere who have had to leave their homes behind and emigrate to other countries.
This is a Business Insider article republished on MSN (so anyone should be able to read it).
TITLE: "At age 12, I signed myself up for online astronomy classes under my mom's name. 14 years later I became the first Mexican-born woman to go to space."
"...in the classroom in the US, I would sit for hours and hours, but everything was nonsense to me because I didn't understand English. I started to fall behind, and was also made fun of. Knowing you're bullied but not knowing what it's about because you don't understand what they're saying — it just feeds into it more.
"Learning English became my number-one priority. If I was going to learn about space and science — which I'd always been curious and passionate about — I knew I needed to master the language. Everything in my life needed to be in English, from the books and articles I read, to the TV shows and movies I watched. I only spoke Spanish to my mom, who still hadn't learned English at that point."
Read the full article on MSN