My name is Shaana, which I have been told means grand in Hindi and beautiful in Yiddish.
My mother is a Gujarati from India raised in Kenya, my father is a Swiss Hungarian Jew raised in Zurich. Both were educated in England, which explains how two polar opposite worlds came together, fell in love and decided to create one world.
I was born in Kenya with pale skin, jet-black, poker straight hair and green eyes, but strangely enough looked Oriental. I was this genetically interesting concoction that looked neither Swiss nor Indian.
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My genes decided to continue changing and turned my green eyes brown and my straight hair wavy. I still didnt look like I belonged. The Japanese children in Swiss pre-school spoke to me in Japanese, my babysitter spoke to me in French, my family spoke to me in English, my neighbors spoke to me in Swiss-German and the movies I watched spoke to me in Hindi.