49 Voices: Tsolmon Damba of Anchorage

Tsolmon Damba of Anchorage (Photo by Anne Hillman, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)This week we’re hearing from Tsolmon Damba in Anchorage. Demba is a nursing student from Mongolia who arrived in Alaska nearly seven years ago to attend UAA. She says the city is not what she expected.
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DAMBA: When I first came to the U.S., the first city I went to was Anchorage, so I was expecting really tall buildings like in the movies (laughs). I felt like I was in the countryside. It was