Paperboat Sailor

She asked from the window, "Is this library, miss?" One of the teacher and I was inside the library and the teacher said it is. "Can I come in and look at the library?" she asked. She was a young girl, holding a little baby. The teacher said she can come in the library, and she entered. She lived some few houses above the school and was there today to collect scholarship fee of her brother-in-law, who was in class 3. The teacher whom I was with asked to look at the baby and took the baby. While the teacher was looking at the baby, she was walking all around library looking at different books. The 2 months young baby was so small, but cute. The baby was coughing and had a little problem breathing. The mother, took out a book from the shelf and started reading. Amazed by it, I wanted to know more about her. A girl of class seven, fell in love with a boy and they got married. The girl was just 15. She came to live with the boy in his village. The boy had no par

I could hear the sound of Marshyangdi river in the silent night before I sleep and wake up to a beautiful view of Annapurna. It's not been more than 2 months that I am here and there has been two rapes and a murder near this place. A cheetah entered our village in the middle of the night and scratched a goat. ( Just scratch, coul dn't take it away ) This is the place I live in, Badagaun, Lamjung. And I am currently teaching in one of the community school of Marshyangdi gaupalika. Well, people here and people from other different places ask me how Lamjung is and how I've been doing. It's either to please the people here or make the people of other places feel jealous, I say Lamjung is good. Ramro cha. Ramailo cha. But it's not the ramro or ramailo I care about. All I want is my children to get more exposure to the real world and increase their quality of education. However, this place has been a mixed feeling to me. Sometimes it's like all WOW! I love this pl