Small Improvement...........

Sometimes a small achievement also gives a lot of happiness. Today I am checking the copies of Second Terminal exam and feeling really very happy. Not because all my students has done good but because they have improved a lot. Though some are still fail, today when I am checking their paper I can find their correct answers what they used to do mistake. They have started writing five paragraph essay, letters in a very impressive way. This has made me so happy that I can't wait sharing. 

Magic of 'Magical Math'

“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.” 

These are the lines of my best writer Paulo Coehlo, and I do love this statement as well, since I also had a challenge: a challenge to change the  context, to do something better, to move on, and to utilize the maximum of whatever I have got and to receive more than what every one dreams about. 
I remember the day, when me and Seetu knew about our placement school as Jyotidaya, most of the people said that it was a much easy place as the student of this school know better than other schools' students. And even we expected the same but when we started teaching there, we came to know that our grade nine students even didn't know the meaning of some common English words and even were poor in Mathematics. We wanted to do something bigger and better and also inspired our students for the same. And finally after seven months, we became able to do something extra in our school, which was our first effort in our school, first effort by our students and even we are proud to say that among the fellows also. We became able to hold a 'Maths Exhibition' in our school. 

Students preparing their materials

Surbir sir observing our students' performance in our demo exhibition

But the journey was not easy: teaching the students each and every new things not only the terms of Maths but the way of behaving, conversation, mutual behavior during the exhibition was not really easy. And today when three of the schools' students along with their teachers came for the exhibition, our students made us proud. They did it so well. They seemed so confident. Even the teachers of other schools came to us and congratulated us for our success. They were curious about 'Teach For Nepal' and its work. And the most important part was not only us Seetu and me but our whole school supported us. We were helped by all other teachers. Without them we would not become successful. 

Though we had so many problems even in management, in communication, in subject matter but our children learnt a lot today. This day helped them to learn by heart all those things which we were not able to teach even in those six months. So what our children did today made me really very happy. Our 'Magical Math' really showed magic today..................

Reflecting the Tour to Pokhara.............

As it is said, we all are the actors of the director God. 'God', I don't believe him much, but sometimes we are   tend to believe it. It was seven years back, when I was reading in grade nine our school had organized an educational tour to Pokhara and Gorkha, where I was keen to go. But at the last moment due to some inconveniences, I had to cancel it. And it became the dream places of my life where I never got an opportunity to go during these times. But recently, I got the opportunity to go with the very place with my grade nine and ten students. So I just couldn't guess, how it happened. 

I must say as it was a new place to me, my students were new to it and even my co-fellow Seetu was new to the place. That's why we were so eager to go and all were behaving like a kid who was going to visit a new place. Though it was right after our festival 'Tihar', we were more that 30 who were attending the educational  tour. Though it was a short tour we tried to visit most of the places like Sarangkot, Davi's Falls and different religious and historical places, had the experience of  walking on caves and many more. This three days visit gave all the teachers and students an opportunity to mix with each other more well, know more about each other. Staying outside from school and managing the teens is really a difficult task but we didn't have to face much problem because our principal sir was with us. But sometimes it becomes quite difficult to handle them.

The tour is really a memorable visit of my life as we had to climb many ladders and hills to reach our destination. Feeling tired but not being able to take rest as we had few time to visit, sitting inconveniences in the bus and the taps that run out while bathing at the hotels, are some of the things that I can never forget. These would become the funny but good memories in my life.  

The visit was not a dream come true to me but also to my grade nine students as they had been saving money to go to this tour from their grade seven and got this opportunity. So here, I am concluding that I think  God is not directing me but my amazing kids who didn't let their hope down and became persistent to fulfill their dreams lead me to my dream place which I longed to see and yes, it is really a beautiful place of our country. My kids inspire me to move on continuously towards my dream too... 

Sunrise from Sarangkot

Miru and me on Mahendra Cave

Taking rest after walking out of Mahendra Cave

Enjoying parks of Pokhara

Inside the bus, showing our new hats..........hehe

Our students on boat at Phewa Lake

At Gorkha Durbar Square

Dance: a different way of bringing change................

It's sometimes difficult to decide what is right and what is wrong? What to do and what not to do? and it's even much difficult when we have to decide and do right away on no time. The same thing happened today. I may be taking this small issue as a vague or may be I am right to think about this way now, I still can't decide but what I did was what I thought right at that moment. 

 After two days of training I went to school with enthusiasm that I am going to make them learn in a new way and had also planned a game shared us by Christine Stone at the training as I already knew that today they are not going to be in the mood of reading lessons as today we were scheduled  'Tihar Special program' and 'Farewell Program' for the S.L.C. graduates of 2069. But when I reached school the scenario was different. Everybody was busy. Every teacher, every student preparing for the stage, doing dance and singing rehearsals. As there was no any sign of taking class, I started helping students for their speech and anchoring. Then, finally the program began with few student for whom the program was actually designed for I mean the ex-students. Those students who were present also were not really concerned about the program. They were just siting in the stage and gossiping with each other no matter who is doing what and who is speaking about what? But at the mid of the program all of them arrived and again same thing happened. They were sitting infront and gossiping and they were not taking notice of what their juniors had prepared for them. And I was really surprised to see that none of the teachers were responding. The juniors learn from their seniors and if they do that our juniors will also follow that. I didn't know what to do announced from the stage to them not to talk at the program but have a look on what their juniors had prepared for them as I knew that it took couple of weeks for them to rehearse and they had put lot of their effort and time for that. So this was not getting out right on me. 

Grade eight students Lasata and Preeti anchoring the program

Grade eight students Ashish and Kiran (speaking infront for the first time) giving farewell speech

Then, the program formally ended and our student had organized a concert where at the beginning only few of the students were dancing and Seetu and I were also requested to dance. In the beginning I was not in a mood to dance but later I found that some of the students were hesitating to dance, so to boost them up I along with Seetu started dancing. Dancing, is what we can say has no any mistake but in the context, where the students and even teachers think that dancing infront of all and in a remix songs is undisciplined is a problem. And at that moment I felt like stopping because I could see some eyes staring at us in such a disgraceful way, some of the people backbiting about our activity, then again an instant thought popped up on my mind that this is the time to bring some change in the attitude so let's not stop and we kept on dancing. After sometime a group of girls followed us and after sometime there were so many girls dancing with us. And one of the girls of grade nine came to Seetu and said, "miss I think you should be disciplined".

Did we do the right at that moment? or we just went against our culture. I am still not getting the answer. But at that moment I thought it right and even my students enjoyed it. So I am happy that  I brought smile in the face of some of the girls whom I had never seen smiling all these months.

Grade nine and ten students preparing for the concert

Students enjoying the concert

Seetu and Me tired after dancing

Getting Inspired from Christine Stone

I have a few traces of memories how my father taught me the first letter 'A' of an English alphabet in my small patti, blackboard with a chalk. At that time I never knew how important was it to learn that letter. When I wrote the letter I was happy not because I learned to write a letter but because I was successful in completing what my father had told me to do. Later, during the school days too, we never thought about the purpose of learning in our lives. We just went to school so that we could fulfill our responsibilities. What if the lessons that we learned at school were filled with joy it really would change our perspective of going to school. And today, I felt that joy and this changed my opinion about going to school or to be more straight, my point of learning English language. 

English is an international language so we should learn it. It's important and so on... 

I never had much interest in learning English until I reached grade six and met Chankhey (I think all the students of 90s know him). When I used to open the book and see smiling monkey doing his tricks all over the pages of the books, it used to make me laugh with him and at the same time learn with him which later on became my passion and now I enjoy reading thousands of pages written in English. Not only this it made me love English language and it's rhyme. So I even joined Humanities majoring English Literature and right now I am doing my masters on it.

Until today, I had never thought that one day I would meet the person who indirectly motivated me to learn English in such a joyful manner but today I met the person who was behind me all the time,  Christine Stone, the person who imagined 'Chankhey' and developed the curriculum of English that I learned at my school. Stone, who is now in her early 70's is packed with energy. We had two days training with her at TFN House and her experience and extraordinary life really mesmerized us. 

She joined us every day with her Heaven ( her lovely dog). I found her so humble that I can't explain. An educator, teacher to all levels who prepares curriculums, writes childrens's books, consults for government and private schools and helps just about anybody who asks, also helped us with her teaching materials and answered all our queries.  Living here 30 years, she knows so many things about Nepal that we being a Nepali don't know and speaks Nepali in such a beautiful way that no one can imagine. I became surprised when she said during our talk, " I have nothing with me except my dog and a bicycle." Really she has devoted all of her life in teaching selflessly. 

She really inspired us not only when she was guiding us but also during her informal chats. Christine first went to Gorkha District for five years at a government school, then another five in Pokhara Gandaki Boarding School. She reminisces that her best experiences were reading to students evening-time. In Nepal nobody ever read stories, but with a stack of Ladybird books Christine ignited fires. By the end she was reading classics like Les Miserables; even teachers asked her to read to them too. And I am happy that I got the opportunity to learn from her and even meet her. She is really a role model for me. 

Christine Stone, who loves Chankhey so much is sad as it has been removed from the new curriculum of grade six books and is going to be removed from grade seven next year. But I do hope that though it's going to be removed but the students like me who had become inspired through her book will never let her down in the classrooms where we would be teaching and always make Chankhey alive among us sharing his tricks and stories.

All the photos of Christine that I had clicked got deleted by mistake , so searched this one from  Fulbright blog

I am not teaching but learning................

Whatever we do, the first is what we always remember, either it's a first day at school or a first day at college, first day at job or the first salary. Every time first is much valuable word and even the most memorable one. Here also I am talking about 'first'. But it's slightly different. Here I am going to talk about my first day at school but it's as a teacher. Though it has become five months since I am going to school but I always remember the first day as this day has led me to the context where I am today.

As every teacher expects that their students like them and treat them well.  I too wanted that. And I was little more as I was from a different background so far. Working as full time television journalist for three years at Biratnagar, I had never even imagined that I would go to a village of Lalitpur not for the news but for the sake of knowledge. So in my first day I woke up early, managed all my materials as today I was going to do an introductory game, dressed well as I had heard that children love the teacher who dress well and went to school. I was exactly on time. With little bit of nervousness and a lot of excitement, I stepped onto my first class. Everyone greeted me some with confusion on their face, some with joy and some stood just still without any reaction. I started giving my introduction and asked about them as per my plan. But suddenly my eyes went on to a boy who was quite taller than other fellows of grade seven, who just sat quietly without saying anything and without involving in any of the activities. I went near him and asked his name, he didn't speak a word. I thought that he didn't like me so he has no interest on talking with me. That made me sad.

Next day, I again went near him and asked about him. Again I had to face the same silence. A student next to him shouted " Miss, he is not going to speak. His shows same behaviour with all. His name is Anish: Anish Rajbahak." I asked them why? They didn't have any answer. And one said, " he had failed his grade seven last year, so he is with us now." Then I felt that may be he is upset from his failure. So he doesn't want to speak with anyone. But I wanted to hear his voice. I wanted him to speak with me and share what is in his heart. So when others were out of class, I went near him and said, "please speak to me, I want to know more about you.' He just kept quite without any reaction.

Few days later, I saw him playing so joyfully with his friends. He seemed happy. I called him and gave my hands for friendship saying, "let's be friend and talk with each other. Don't take me as your teacher but as your friend." Without speaking any word he passed me and sat on the corner where his seat was. I just didn't know what to do. One fine day one of my friend's who is another fellow of Teach For Nepal, Sushant, gave me a banner about autism, which had information about what is it and what we should do to those children. I had heard about autism several times but had never thought that it has so many forms. And even Anish could be autistic. Then I interrogated more about him to his friends, other teachers and who knows him well and also found out that he was very good in Mathematics but very poor in languages. He couldn't speak. And this was the most difficult situation for me as I was his language teacher.

Then I searched about what autism is. What we should do to these kind of children? and also took notice of his behaviors. I found out that he likes to be called good boy. He likes putting his names in happy cartoon faces and with stars and we made the classroom environment full of stars,  motivating students by giving smiley faces and so on. Then he started showing improvement. He prefered to stay more with some of his friends and I told them to help him in his study also. They also helped him. But still there was no sign of positive change. May be he was grasping language that I was unable to feel as I was impatient to make him speak. Later on he gradually started showing changes. He started participating in role plays, then started to read books and even started to speak confidently in an assembly and now after four months he has started raising hands to answer, which I had never expected.

I know this is wrong to not to put higher expectation for him as every teacher has to have the higher expectations for their students as much as possible and I am sorry for that and nowa days I expect more and more from him and I am now habituated to see his progress.  May be some may say I am being centered to Anish but I had heard that first you should find out your hardest student and make him understand well so that your other students will join your path anywhere in the mid and I am doing the same and it's being beneficial as well.

Though this is the first time I am teaching but what I feel is every child is special. So we must treat every child in their own way respecting what they are and who they are and Anish as I know is special and I am so happy to get him as he makes me learn that patience is the most important thing in life and change is not spontaneous but a gradual process so we should keep on putting our effort, one day we will get success. Hats off to all my teachers and also to those who are now a teacher. They all are the spark of change in the society. And now I come to realize the meaning of what Aristotle said,"Life, Art, Living. Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them: for these only gave them life, those the art of living well". And well, in my case, I am not teaching rather I am learning the art of living.

Thank God, I didn't miss it..................(Reflecting TFI Visit)

May be it was just a month ago Bada Dashain, I was striving to get the bus tickets to go to my home towards Itahari. I struggled a lot and got one ticket towards it and it was on october 4th. As soon as I got the bus ticket I came to get the information about our official visit to New Delhi to broaden our knowledge and get something new from them. The idea was just blooming up and we were not totally confirmed whether we would be going or not? and I was in a dilemma whether to cancel the ticket to home or not but finally even on the short notice we confirmed our journey with our belief 'Sense of possibility' and the value of the journey was 'Be positive' as we were sure that the journey would have many problems as it was a 36 hour long journey as we were going there through bus and train. But there was some belief inside that yes, we can do it. We gathered at TFN House and headed towards our destination on a bus to Kalanki where next bus was waiting for us to take us to Rupaidiha (boarder place between Nepal and India).

Our packed luggage at TFN House

Picture before heading on the journey for memory

Everyone was curious as well as nervous as it was a very long journey and even for me it was long though I had traveled long distances via land transport this was going to be the longest of all. And when we reached at  Kalanki a bus which had been reserved to pick us and looking at the condition of bus we started to tell each other 'Be Positive' as all the seats of the bus was wet. Though it wasn't the fault of anyone we had to face that because the day before the very bus was used to transport goats to Kathmandu and was washed for us but as it was raining the bus was still wet. It was no use of complaining as we didn't had another option. And as we were using our brain how to sit, Prabin dai (who is the best example of positivity among us) came with some plastics and gave us to put above our seat and Rojee came up with the idea of putting the clothes used for bus window shades above the plastic and we sat over it. Though it was difficult but we managed. Isha and I was sitting on the second last seat of the bus where as Rajan and Bindu were next to us and we must say we four were the person to face the most difficulty at night as the roads were not so good and we were bouncing like a ball. And not only us Krishna dai was the person who was unable to get seat and had to manage himself on a very difficult seat where there was not enough space to put his legs and I was amazed how he managed himself there. Next day we had scars on our knees.

Rajan, who has the hobby of taking pictures on different poses, wanted me to click this pose for him inside the bus

May be around 9 am we reached at Nepalgunj.  From there we used horse carriage and rikshaw to reach Rupaidiha boarder from where we started to hear the Hindi language, though it Hindi is not the new language for us but it was quite awkward to listen it being used in common and there we came to know that the bus on which we were planning to go had broken down. So for some hours we waited for the bus and after that started searching for the other options as we had to catch the train at 7pm to New Delhi from Lucknow otherwise we would miss the train. 

Riding on horse carriage

Ravi jee and Amrit dai crossing the boarder 

Ruphedia boarder 

Means of transportation that are available at the boarder areas of Nepal and India 

Waiting for the bus to Lucknow, after crossing the boarder

Then, we came up with the option to go to Lucknow by hiring three sumo jeep and taking the shortest route to Lucknow and we headed towards the journey. Though it was congested, we enjoyed travelling through it as we could view the green fields along the stream. And it was no different than the terai region of Nepal. So I was missing my home a lot as  the landscapes were similar. Some roads were good whereas some where very terrible then, approximately after four hours at 6 pm we reached at Lucknow, the capital city of Uttar Pradesh, India. And it was similar to our capital Kathmandu. The same garbage around, pollution, narrow streets, no traffic rules and so on. 

View from the jeep

Lucknow market

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Roads of Lucknow

Unloading the jeep at Lucknow train station 

Lucknow train station 

We had some time to freshen up at the train station and at 7 pm we got into the train and after the uncomfortable night at the bus, we felt that the journey on train so cosy, where at least we could sleep comfortably. Next morning at 6pm we got off from the train and got to new that it was Old Delhi, not New Delhi and our bus was waiting us at New Delhi. So not only us us but TFI members had to 'Be Positive' towards us this time. But when they arrived to welcome us they were too humble and kind towards us. Then we got into the bus and were taken to the host families where we had to stay with for the next three days.

TFI Fellows and Hosts receiving some of us

 TFI hosts were taking our friends one by one and I was being nervous that who would be my host and how she would be as I had to live with her alone for three day. How would she behave and how her family members would react, that were the questions coming up in my mind. Then, my name was called, along with me Seetu and Dilu G, were also called and we found that our host were living in the same area. So we were quite happy that we were at least going to meet. Then, there came a girl Sonal Agarwal and she was my host and as Seetu's and Dilu G's host were busy she was going to them also. Then we headed towards her home via metro. And this metro drive was really lovely. Then we first left to Dilu G's host's house and then Sonal took Seetu and me with her and later we found that Seetu's host was very busy so she told whether we could sit together or not? We were very happy to accept it as we were also wishing the same thing. Then, we were introduced to the rest of the family members, and most of the all there was Chuku, niece of Sonal who was so cute and became friendly with us instantly. 

Chukku, niece of our host

Me and seetu taking rest at Sonal's room

Sonal Agrawal, TFI Fellow and our host

Sonal Agrawal, TFI Fellow 2013, born and grown up in Delhi has completed her engineering form Delhi College of Engineering and before joining TFI she voluntarily worked for the slum children which motivated her to join TFI and she is happy about her decision also and after two years she plans to continue her further studies. She is a very polite girl who was so good to us. She had planned all the things for us what to do, where to take us for visit and so on. Staying with her was really the best thing for us there. As she had an appointment with her doctor that day she made us meet with another TFI Fellow Garima so that we would not feel bored and Garima was another good lady to stay with. She was a CA and was having a reputed life but was unsatisfied with it. So she joined TFI and now she says that she is happy and satisfied from her life and after two years she plans to go back to her profession again with happiness. Then, Garima took us to different places of Delhi for visit like Delhi Haat, India Gate and Central Park. We talked with her about her kids, about her plan and how she manages in the worse situation and how is TFI helping her in her classroom and so on. We chatted a lot. She was very open to us. 

Inter-college drama competition being held at Delhi Haat

Food stall at Delhi Haat

Trying some Rajasthani dishes at Delhi Haat

Enjoying with Garima at India Gate Park

 At the evening, we again met with Sonal and went to Old Red Fort where there was cultural dance program on the occassion of 'Dashara' and there we met Sonali and Shristi with their host families. The program was awesome. Sonali who was sitting next to me was sharing with me the importance and value of their every cultural dance that was being shown. I was so surprised that how could she know every details of her culture because we don't know much about all our cultural dances.

Cultural dance at Old Fort of Delhi

Shristi and Sonali enjoying the dance performances

After the program we returned to our home and then planned for the day after. Sonal told us to go to the 'Compassionate Daily' program, the program where the students of one schools exchange their letters and gifts to the students of another school and make friends and this was organized by some previous TFI Fellows who had now opened an NGO, working for children and this program was mainly organized to boost up the confidence of the students. Next morning we went to Yog-way Community School where Sonal is working as a Fellow and this was the only community school where TFI Fellows were working as others were the public school and also the school which had the highest number of TFI Fellows that is seven. TFI had a different strategy that it had given TFI Fellows to each sections of a class so Sonal was the grade teacher of grade 3 section A and Shruti who is her co-fellow was the grade teacher of grade 3 section B and they were teaching the kids which were taught by TFI fellow in grade 1 and 2. So their kids were the best in the school. And their work was to make them more confident. When I saw Sonal and Shruti talking about the school and kids on their way to school I remembered Seetu and me doing the same. The problem of the school was that there was no play ground and Sonal gave us the information that even the students can't play at home so they try to make them play different games inside classrooms and fun in the most possible way. The classrooms of TFI Fellows were filled with chart papers and the students were interactive. When we went to the next school, we found that even those grade three students taught by the TFI fellows were far more better in English and interactive than the students of grade six students. We also did different activities for the students and made them play games. And here I was missing my own kids. I was thinking whether this kind of program would be fruitful for our kids or not? Will it be possible or not? 

Sonal and Shruti discussing their lessons on the way

Gifts made by the grade three students for exchange

Teaching the students to write letters

Sonal, praising one of her kids

Students writing letters to their new friends

Student asking permission to answer

Student interaction program

Making the students play games

Motivating the student to introduce herself

TFI students on the left talking to her new friend

TFI student interacting with other new friends

After the program we went for dinner and then left for Lodhi garden where we had interaction program with other TFI fellows. There we shared our ideas, experiences, dreams for our children and our plans. Then we returned to our home. 

Next day as per the schedule we had to go for community visit but as our host didn't have leave we had to go to the school again. And that day we observed all the classes of TFI fellows of that school and their teaching methods. They use so many resources to teach their kids and also they shared us with some resources which we could use in our classrooms. The TFI who were in their second classroom had such an exemplary classroom, everything was managed and rules were set but the first years fellows were still struggling to set up the rules in their classroom. So I kept them in their place and felt motivated as well as hopeful that everything will be fine in the coming days. 

Walls of Sonal's classroom

News collected by students

Sonal teaching about Ozone layer

Deegant, TFI Fellow teaching Fraction in his classroom

Then, we headed to our next program where TFN fellows were sharing their experiences. At first I felt that we were sharing our experiences with ourself as there were very few TFI fellows but when Deegant, TFI Fellow who was hosting the program shared the fact that most of the TFI fellows had already left Delhi to celebrate the festival at home, there were only few of them. And those few fellows had planned so perfectly for everything we did that day. We shared our experiences where as they shared with us their resources in their resource mela. After that we met Shaheen Mistri, CEO of Teach For India who was so inspiring. She shared her story with us and answered our queries. I found her very motivational. 

Seetu sharing her experiences as a TFN Fellow

Shiheen Mistri, TFI CEO answering our queries

Shiheen sharing her story

After that we went to Ram Leela program which was being held near Sonal's house on the occassion of Dashara and Dilu G was along with us. We enjoyed different games as well as varieties of Indian food their. We had a lot of fun there. 

At Ram Leela Mela

Dilu G's first experience of 'Break Dance' in Ram leela Mela

Then, the following day was our day that means we TFN fellows reflected our visit till date, Then we had time with TFI alumns and students team. The students were so inspiring and forward. They were answering our questions so diplomatically as if they were matured and TFI alumns answered most of our concerns about the achievements that they got after joining TFI and even what we can do after the fellowship. So this visit gave me motivation as well as hopefullness. It gave me some new ideas to deal with my kids and I must say an opportunity to learn more. Then, we went for the poetry session where we were told to share our poetry that  we have written or the poetry that has touched our heart. 

After that Sonal and her friends had planned a dinner for us. After that we returned to our home. And the next day we exchanged our gifts with her and left to TFI office with our luggage and then made some groups and went to explore Delhi where me, Seetu, Rojee, Rijuta and Isha went to Kutub Minar, which is one of the nice place to see the archaeology. Then left for shopping with Sonal. After that we bid our final good bye to Sonal and then returned to TFI and left to Banbasa on bus to reach our home where some of us felt sick and next day we crossed Sarada river and reached Mahendranagar. Here got to listen Nepali language which gave us the homely feeling. From there Milan and me departed from rest of the others for our home to Itahari whereas others left on the bus to Kathmandu and the next day passing the whole night on bus like a bouncing ball we reached our home in the afternoon. 

Visiting Kutub Minar

Shopping with Sonal

The journey, though was short gave me the experience that I had never experienced. And came to realize that a little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. Not only the interaction with TFI but even this journey gave me a motivation because this was considered impossible journey in the very time when we had just imagined but now here when I am sharing this it has now become a part of my beautiful experiences where I have gained a lot. So thank God, I didn't miss this trip........................................This is the most beautiful Dashain that I have ever celebrated. A journey full of experiences and knowledge from the starting of Ghatasthapana and a victorious end and blessing of my parents at my home.........