My husband, Mustafa, and I left for Portland Oregon in the States in January 2021 – in the middle of the pandemic and only three weeks before the US closed its borders. I had just resigned and didn't even get a chance to say all my goodbyes because of lockdown restrictions. It was still exciting when that plane took off.
Mustafa is Turkish. He is an independent filmmaker.
I was in a happy bubble for the first couple of months here,
