In Mexico, students either need to walk home for meals or buy food outside the school, wrote the immigrant, who used the name N. Lira in a Quora thread.
"Imagine my surprise on my first day of school in the United States," she wrote. "The first class consisted of letting us watch the news during breakfast time. What!? Breakfast time and TV at school AND the food is free? I was almost too shy to get my servings because I didn't want anybody to think that I was taking advantage of the situation.
"And at the end of the day I didn't have to walk home under the blistering sun. The school bus was free! And — drum roll — it was air conditioned," she continued.
"I could hardly believe how everything was so neat, organized, overflowing, free, shiny, comfortable and all I had to worry about were my grades! I was in school heaven. I often fantasized about how amazing it would be if my classmates from Mexico could experience the same things."