What motivated me to photograph Americans in Haifa was my intense curiosity to know why others like me made the decision to come here. I wondered how they were managing in Israel and if their new lives would appear similar to mine now. Before starting the project, I was sure that every American I would meet garnered the same bittersweet feelings toward our home country and the lifestyle we left.  I pictured in my mind walls of red, white and blue paraphernalia as well as sentimental items -maybe family mementos that they could not live without.