By Shweta Katti | Revolutionary & Bard Student
Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you are enjoying your holidays because I am enjoying it a lot with my friends at Long Beach, CA. All of my friends are home with family...but of course Kranti cannot afford a plane ticket for me to visit my family for two weeks. We tried to talk to some airlines to see if they will give me a free ticket but nothing worked out. But it’s okay because now I am staying with my friend whose family is Indian. They are really nice they also contributed me money for my tickets to California. It is beautiful here, but most important, it is sunny and reminds me of home! :)
“I am done with my first semester. Wait….what?? Seriously? But I JUST came and I just started classes. What’s happening??” this was my reaction on the last day of our classes. This semester went like ZOOOOP and without realizing, the year is gone. It is great to have a break from classes now. But freshmen only have two weeks of break and everyone else has five weeks. It is very tragic. After two weeks we have to go back to Bard to do a class called Citizen Science, I hope it is good!
This semester has been a great change for me. It was mixed with everything crying, laughing, dancing, adjusting, learning, expressing, and sharing. While I was at college I used to ask myself, “Why am I even here in the states? I should have stayed in India and studied there.” This was all because I was thinking of my family and I was homesick, but I have finally made some friends and am starting to feel less homesick. My favorite class this semester was English for international students because we are all from different countries and we all have different culture and different stories to share. I am excited to change classes next semester and finally start psychology classes!
It was my birthday in December and I really missed my family. Last week, I called my mother and sang her a mother-child song. When I asked her not to cry, you know what she said? “Now that you are so strong I have become strong so don’t worry about me.” She is really amazing and I am so lucky to have her. I want to share two more exciting things about my family – one is that a university in Delhi is giving my mother an award (for ordinary women doing incredible things) and she will be flying to receive the award!!! :) I am very excited and proud! The other amazing news is that my half-sister, Kavita, will be joining Kranti soon! She is 19 and just finished 12th. She also wants to study abroad, so I hope to have her in New York with me next year!!! That is all for now. I hope you are all having wonderful, exciting holidays and looking forward to 2014 as much as I am.
Thank you for all of your support and making all of dreams possible this year!
Love,
Shweta
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