Dear frens,
Well once again convey my well wishes for A's recovery.
Many times I think I should have studied my Undergraduate in Nepal. At least I didn't had to work as hard as I have to in US.And also all the good time you guys have, even though you all are in school, and still manage to score good grades gets me jealous. But as they say everything happens for good, hopefully it'll all end well. Well if you take enough credit hours your degree is planned for 4 years, but since most of the students work though college here it's becoming more and more impossible to finish it within 4 years. That includes not just South Asian students but also US citizens. Everyone has to
work for there daily expenses. And we also loose 3 to 4 months of the year for travelling or working during summer.
My fourth year is coming to end, I should have graduated if I was in Nepal but I still have a lot of time to graduate.
Well as they say: Graduating college in 4 Years is like Leaving the Party at 10.
These few years I believe I have experienced a lot of things. I presume it's because we are at the peak years of our life.Lot of good news followed by bad. Good news is that we are still doing good and pursuing our careers and all seem to be almost there. Bad news is that though these years we have heard bad things about people we know (fellow students). For starters- my fren B(excellent student and sportsman) from Galaxy drowne couple of years back saving a girl. I guess half a dozen fellow Nepali students killed in car accident. My dad's colleague's wife died during Tihar. I have seen a good fren of mine infected by terrible disease here C. a fren and a brother has
recovered from a different disease D. Fellow student died in houston couple of days ago with some form of disease. I am hearing about a Nepali girl diagnosed with cancer now. And now the news about A's accident. I pray to god to bless us all.
I didn't want to write a letter about all this but I guess I got drifted away(as my life has) and just trying to reflect back in the past. I just hope the crazy dreams once seen by all of us as a naive kids comes true.
Well I wanted to tell you that I did not think your last e-mail about santi samghauta was JPT. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Seemslike I can't seem to get into the actual spirit of the news from nepal. It feels distant as my own country.
The way we hear it out here is "Oh! there was this big ANDOLAN in nepal to remove king", but only after hearing from friends whowere there, how they spoke out and went to March against the king did I really got chills down my spin.
And now I was though glad to hear about Peace Accord, I didn't actually realize how big of a deal was it. Hearing you talk about patriotic things in your last e-mail got me into groove "JAI NEPAL". The part especially about how happy you were and that you went out and took a ride all over ringroad to celebrate and that you spent
all night SINGING PATRIOTIC SONGS (euta pura rat DESH ko nam). WAHhhhhh.....
I hope you are right. I so wish as you said , now we only get to hear about development in nepal instead of all the blood sheds news when we turn pages of news paper.
I don't want to be sceptic at this point but I did still hear about forceful recruitments and some clashes. I asked about it to one of the brother here (of course more knowledgeable than me), and he said since we have been infected for so many years it does not just dissolve there will still be few minor things but certainly a big Thing has prevailed in our country.
I don't want to be one more example of Nepalese who are big in words but not in action. I hope god gives me wisdom and strength for good of my family frens and my country.
I also love this country i'm living in. I am at the library and looking outside these big windows I see trees all over and a nice sky. They say americans are not as social as we asian but they are wrong, the best thing is that people here are really helpful and friendly. Something that we Nepalese are loosing. I have drifted a lot towards there culture, but sometimes I think in the process I might loose my real identity. I as a non resident nepali, I might not be an american nor nepali. (GHAR ko Na GHat ko).
Well I'm running out of words so I'll talk to ya'll later.
Take care.
