May justice exist in the action of each person,
may love bloom in the heart of each person and
may peace prevail all over the world."

I'm Kyimo Tso and I was born on 2nd of March 1987 in northeastern Tibet near the Yellow River. The place where I grew up, is a small village which is surrounded by huge mountains, those mountains are just like a group of majestic elephants that protect my village. Most of the villagers are uneducated and superstitious. Actually, in my village there were very few girls who were sent to school by their parents because they thought that girls should help them on the field and it's useless to send a girl to school for educate. Fortunately, my parents' thoughts were totally opposite from other villagers.

My parents wanted their children to be an educated person regardless of girl or boy. So, since the day I could tie my own shoes, I was sent to school.Moreover my parents supported my study even though they was not much money to pay for my school fees. For a farmer they have not that much income even if they spent most time on the field. However my elder brother and I got a nice opportunity to pick up the flower of education with the help of our grateful parents and elder sister who has never seen the gate of school.

After completing primary school, I joined a boarding school in our town which is founded by his holiness the 10th Panchen Lama that is only for Tibetans. In that school, school fees are lower than other schools but for a student who comes from a common farmer family, school fees was really a big problem.

In 2004, when yellow leaves were nearly falling down, I departed my beloved parents, dear family members and friends to start my dangerous journey. Because I didn't get the marks to join medical university in my class XII board examination and I didn't want to waste my parents' money for joining an ordinary college. Because it is very difficult to find a job after graduating if that is a common college. Therefore, for further education, lightening my parents' burden and escaping from grief of failure, but to start a new life, I decided to come to India with a heavy heart and endless tears.

On my journey, I didn't face any specific troubles as I got a Chinese passport to Nepal. However, when our jeep passed rivers and Snow Mountains to Drom (border of china and Nepal), I couldn't control my sadness. Honestly because I didn't want to leave my beloved country. If my family back

ground was good, I would have wanted to re-exam in the following year. Or if I got enough marks on that exam, I could have joined the university that I had desired for a long time, for which I had studied as a hungry wolf who was chasing a flock of sheep. Unfortunately, my destiny chose an unexpected way for me.

Under the kindness of our spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Tibetan government in exile, I got a precious chance to join TCV (Tibetan Children's School) Suja School, the majority of the students were from Tibet. In that school I faced many kinds of problems. I got disease because I couldn't adopt to the climate and food. Anyway, I spent four years there to study English, Tibetan, Math, Social, Science, and two years' Hindi. It's a good school for the children who come from Tibet but my aim is to learn only languages (Tibetan, English and Chinese).

So beginning of 2009 I applied to my present school (E.S. Tibet) for entry examination. Fortunately, I passed the exam and became a student of the fourth batch in this school. Here we are offered good facilities to study computer and English without paying any fees with help of the Gerster family and other sponsors.

I have been in the ocean of regret. I have hated my karma. I have disappointed my life but now by getting different kinds of experiences in my exile life, I got a lot of things for my future life. I've totally transformed into a new person - my thinking power, attitude, and way of contact with other people and so on. If I were in Tibet, I would be just like a frog in a narrow well.

Thanking you

E.S.Tibet Student
Kyimo Tso