Today on the train ride home from work I spoke with 3 women that are custodians at a healthcare building. Turns out, they are from Nepal. I’ve noticed them periodically on the train and sometimes we end up sitting near one another. Having wondered if they were once
refugee’s, I struck up a conversation today. Turns out that that 2 of them were, arriving in the US 4 and 7 years ago respectively. They didn’t know any English when the arrived. Now they speak reasonably well – enough that we could communicate, though with some measure of repeating words to understand. It’s exciting to think that we might be able to help people out in a similar way through volunteering with the refugee program. We need to get our applications turned in – my goal is by Thanksgiving. Then, hopefully in the years that follow, the people we help will become settled and become productive members of society. Continue reading “A Few Years Later…”