Turning Point of My Life

Kewal Timsina

Turing Point Of My Life

There are different turning points in different part of everyone’s life. Turning point that I am going to talk about made my life positively better. There are many turning points in my life but the major turning point of my life is when my parents decided to move United States as part of the Third-Country Resettlement Program started by UNHCR for the refugees in Nepal. Comparing to the background that I had and education that I got, its fairly coming united state was my turning point.

I was born and raise in Bhutanese refugee camp in Nepal. When I was living in a refugee camp in Nepal, I wanted to ride a plane. Every time I heard the sound of the plane flying in the sky, I used to stare at it until it vanished in the horizon. As a kid, I used to wonder how it would feel to ride a plane. And also I always dreamed of driving a car but the fact was I was one of the poor refugee kids who lived in refugee camp who dreamed big. Life in the camp was more than disappointing. We were live in overcrowded conditions where more than five people in family share one small hut. We also receive clothes only once a year, and we have to do low-paying informal work so that we can increase our diet, buy extra clothes, or get higher education. Our house was made of bamboo and thatch where we never knew when the wind would blow it away. And I also remember sticking pieces of paper to the thatched walls during winter as an attempt to keep the cold winds out. In our family we were given certain kilogram bag of rice for fifteen days and, with no gas or electricity available, we would cook our meals using either a charcoal briquette stove or solar cooker which was given by UHNCR.

Education is highly valuable in our community. I have started going school at the age of six. While in camp, going school is not an easy journey for me and many other kid’s like me. We have to face many challenges like, where we have to walk more than two and half mile to get school. In a rainy day, it would very difficult to go school because path was too muddy and slippery. We were given education by “CARITAS NEPAL”, and also CARITAS NEPAL provide books and many other materials that is used for educational propose. In camp they taught us many subjects include English, Nepali, social studies, mathematics, science, accounting, economics, health & population and vale education. We also need to learn our national language Dzonkha, which