I’m Sharifah, known as Helen or Helly to my best friends, aged eighteen. I’m mixed American and Omani. My mother is American of Irish, Scottish, English, German, and Norwegian descent and my father is Omani, making me 50% Arab and 50% European in ethnicity.

My parents are divorced and remarried. I live with my mother and stepfather and visit my father and stepmother on the weekends. I have three siblings—two brothers and one sister aged 15, 9, and 14—and nine step-siblings, eight which I have not met. We have 3 cats—Miguel, Jesse, and Spiros—and a dog named Princess.