I was born to a simple farming family in Yadzi in the Qinghai province in Tibet. My story begins on the 1st of February 1989. I have three siblings who are my elder brother, my elder sister and my younger brother. Two of my brothers are living in Tibet and my sister is in Dharamsala in North India with me.

The past several years, my parents were warned through the experiences from their past that they must send all their children to school to get off us from being a farmer's next generation.

My mother was a sickly woman for her entire life and my sister didn't go to school as she was the eldest child in my family. She helped my parents with house work and sustained the life of this poor family. The three boys; my two brothers and I, started the career of learning knowledge since we reached the age that allowed us to go to school. As a simple farming family it was so hard to afford sending three children to school.

Meanwhile, we three children were going to school. The school fees made my parents so old; they worked in the fields early in the morning until night. The wrinkles and the white hair became noticeable on my parents' heads. It is hard for me to express the feelings of sympathy that I have for my parents in words. With a big aim, to change the lifestyle of my family, I

decided to go to India as long as I graduated from a high school in 2006. On 5th September 2006, I started my journey from Tibet to India. It took one month to reach to India. Along the way, I got a chance to prostrate both Jowo of Lhasa (shakyamuni statue) and Potala Palace as they are the most honorable things to all six million Tibetans. On the 28^th September 2006, I reached India safely and I was sent to the Tibetan Transit School by the Tibetan Reception Centre. I got a chance to study both Tibetan and English language in that school. Life in India is not the same as life in Tibet. Since the day I visited H. H. the Dalai Lama, things have changed a lot and I have learned many things that I have never learned in my life before. Now I'm in a professional English school called 'Educational Support Trust' (ES-trust ). Here I get everything freely and I study harder than when I was in T. T. S. I don't know what kind of person I will be, but I will study hard in spite of how much trouble I face in my study process any way.

Thanking you

E.S.Tibet Student
Chodupthar