Hoping to pursue a career in fashion, senior Hanna Abuzeid is working towards opening her second clothing store, this one in the United States.

“I’m going to community college to study ultrasound but I’m thinking about opening a fashion line,”Abuzeid said. “I’ve already opened this store back home.”

Abuzeid has a boutique type shop back in her birth country of Jordan and has family and friends back home running it for her. She doesn’t design the clothes in the shop but she decides what’s in and what’s out.

“The shop sells clothes, accessories, shoes, nail polish and makeup,” Abuzeid said. “I’d say it’s kind of like JCPenney with a little bit of Sephora.”

She is planning on spending her summer back in Jordan to get the shop completely up and running before returning to St. Louis to attend Maryville.

Though she wants to start her own fashion line, starting in Jordan and then moving to the U.S. after, she prefers to chose outfits instead of sewing and designing clothing.

“I bought the fabric and just sewed the pieces together,” Abuzeid said. “I wore the shirt that I made, it was too tight but I thought it looked good.”

Abuzeid has taken both Fashion Merchandising and Clothing 1 and 2 to help her get ahead with her designing.The fashion schools in Jordan didn’t reach her expectations because they were more focused on the appearance of the clothing, rather than making them useable in real life.

“It really mattered what it looked like on the outside not anything else,”Abuzeid said.

After school is over she does want to move back to Jordan to be with her friends and family since she’s been staying with aunts and uncles in the states and misses her parents.

“ I am going to miss a lot of things, my friends, the teachers, the beautiful things here,” she said.

She does want to eventually come back to the states though to start to branch out her store world wide.