Juni's Journey; From Chapagaun to Germany (Story of Transformation 22)

There she stepped on her dream land...
The journey of thousand miles begins with one step. And when she was there enjoying the views from the window seat in her first ever air travel, I was reminiscing that baby step we were making four years back.

When my messenger popped up with her message sharing that she has reached Germany safely, my eyes were watery but it didn't flood (haha). I had a sense of accomplishment and I was tapping my back. It seems it nearly took a year to process her land there on her dream world. But, reflecting back, the toil started a long time ago. Here, I would like to share the part of her journey from where I met her. I hope her journey of transformation would definitely inspire others.

Though I don't have all the photos of her journey, I hope to give a glimpse of some. 

First day of our class in 2013 when we had started our class
with painting our names on stones. We wanted us to be strong and colorful
as the name on that stiff stone to project that life is hard yet we need to shine.

There, she is with her name. :)

We realized that we were poor in English vocabularies, thus we started 'words chart'
where we would write the words that we would write the difficult words with their
meanings and paste it on the wall and read it everyday.

She has always loved dancing. This was her impromptu dance that
she performed during the farewell program of Elizabeth, a volunteer teacher.
I must acknowledge her performance. :)

Her first presentation in front of the mass. We had participated in a leadership program
organized by Gen-nep, a national youth initiative where students from different schools of all over Nepal
had participated. I remember Juni really being nervous for her presentation because we were the only ones who
were representing community school and she felt her English wasn't as good as other students. This was also the first timeshe was staying outside her home for the first time. We were there for three days and when we look back participating in this event build a sort of confidence in her. 

She was always in the front whenever it would be about the environmental issue. She had also formed a club to work for the environmental protection of her village and  used to organize different awareness programs. 

With in our few months of teaching, we were aware about the psychological problems our students were going through because of various problems that was in the village. Thus with the help of psychological counselor, a friend of Seetu (my co-fellow), we organized  a training and there was Juni brainstorming the issues they are facing with her classmates.

                                                                                                                                                                                               

Juni had always loved travelling. This was shot on our short hike they received as their reward for their good performance in their class. Juni was trying to plan how they were going to share the food they had brought from home. Juni in action...haha :D

During the group activity in one of our classes.

We used to have a lot of act outs in our class. After completing a story book students used to perform in the class. This was one moment when they were acting a story.

Juni, explaining about the cube she and her group had made to
Peter, the correspondent of 'The Guardian' on Math's Exhibition at her school. The event was organized to enhance the practical skills in Math and to make the students interact with other people confidently in English.

Juni had always loved anchoring. 

Addressing her friends about her goals on the day of farewell from school. She had topped her batch.

Juni was among one of the volunteers who worked hard to bring students
 from the rural village on an educational trip to Kathmandu under 'Big Brother Big Sister' project of Teach For Nepal.

That was how she kept busy on after her SLC.
She participated in different activities.
It was just after her performance in 'Miss Indigenous Heritage Nepal'.

This was the day when we had gone for the interview of UWC.

On her journey to Germany. Her first flight. :)

With her roomies. 

With her classmates at Robert Bosch College

Belonging to a lower class family, the journey she had covered throughout is amazing. Leading an independent life has always been her dream when her family was compelled to run through the hard earned money on foreign land. With all the hard work when she has finally achieved one of her goals of studying on a good college, I wish her a very bright future ahead. What I have is the trust that she would excel in whatever she would do.  I would love to write more about her good works even in the coming days.