You know, when I first arrived on this campus, it was with little money, fewer options.

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When I first arrived in SV, Ayn Rand was the big thinker, though she was long gone from the corporeal world.

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After several weeks of getting around on foot and the Metro when I first arrived, I did what most newcomers to Copenhagen do: I bought a bike.

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When I first arrived in Europe, Beckham was one of the players that I modelled myself on - but his shirts do not yet hang on the wall.

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"Obviously, when I first arrived it was something completely new and it took me time to get to know the racecourses and to get to know the different style of racing, " he said.

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Before leaving, I'm shown a video of the babies back in 94 when they first arrived in Italy and I begin to understand the incredible force which has lead these people to break the rules.

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Captain Frank was the first new friend I made when I arrived here.

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When I arrived at her house this afternoon, her first priority was to introduce me to her mother, who was sitting by the fire in an upstairs drawing room.

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"I identify with the eggplant, " says Guan, recalling how isolated he felt when he first arrived in Australia.

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Stepping onto the white sands of the deserted beach, crunchy with fragments of seashell, I get an inkling of what New Zealand's first European settlers must have felt when they arrived in this tropical Eden.

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