Now I am so tall April 2012

Students from a children's home in Kathmandu share stories of how they got there, and where they want to go.

Rabina Regmi
One day in Tihar [a Hindu festival] my mother told my daddy, “I will go meet my brother to get tika.” But my daddy disagreed. My mommy was angry with my daddy and she took me and my brother and we went to meet her brother. When we were in the bus in one place there was a clash between the Maoists. They threw a bomb at our bus, and at that time we were in the front seat. My daddy didn’t know we were in an accident. 

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Urgen Sherpa  
After a year, her mother went back to Sikkum to take Urgen to Kathmandu. When she came to Kathmandu, she was only three years old. And she joined a school called Bright Horizon Children’s Home. She grew day by day and she reached eleven years old. To her surprise, her mother told her that her father was back. She was excited and shocked. Then she began to live in a family whose members were her father, her mother, and only her.

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Devimaya Tamang
My hobbies are to play guitar, drums, flute and basketball. My aim is to be a doctor. But it is so difficult to be a doctor. In our school I have so many best friends. My best friend’s name is all, because they all love me. That’s why I feel so happy. And then, my unhappy life story is when I was in my village. Then, my stepmother scolded me daily and beat me. But now I feel so happy. Sometimes, I sit in the window and look outside and sing lonely. I feel very shy to do anything. 

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Rita
One warm morning, a cute little girl was playing in a beautiful garden with birds, animals, and butterflies. Her name was Cristi. She was born in a small village in Nepal in 1996. She loved playing with animals in the garden, watching the moon at night, and she loved to stay in a peaceful environment reading novels. When someone disturbed her while she was reading, then she got very angry. But she hid her anger inside herself and gave a smile to them. She had a great dream of being a good beautician, a great basketballer, and a perfect doctor. 

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Kisan Limbu
Once upon a time, there was a boy whose name was Kisan Limbu. The boy which I am going to write about is me. I was born in 1996. There was a happy family of mine. My family is so poor too but happy. The head of my family is my father and my mother is so pretty and kind. But she is so strict, but she loved me more than her life. I had only one brother and he loved me so much. He was not just my brother, he was my childhood friend too. He saved me from bad guys. I am afraid of myself because I am a bad guy.

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Deepak Timalsing
My mother is the greatest mother in this world. But I hate my father. He always drank a lot and quarrelled with my mother. My father and mother were divorced when I was in junior kindergarden in 2002. That time, my family was in big trouble ... If I had any superpower I might make a machine which can read the mind of every living being. So, I am not so sad about my life because I have such a kind-hearted mom, she always teach that we must support the truth and I’m so afraid of the dark. And she always be with me when I need help. And I only want to teach a lesson to my father.

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Laxman Shahi
It was a very very interesting day for him because he was going to Kathmandu. He wished to be there. Then when he and his father were waiting for the airplane, he got lost. Initially, he was interested and caught up by the amazing airplane. He stepped his leg towards the airplane. He was observing the wings, wheel, and other parts of the airplane but suddenly a monster-like creature picked up him and dropped him far from the airplane. That was a worker/controller. When he turned back to return, a line of closely built houses puzzled him. He was astonished. He lost his way. 

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