I was checking out my SAT scores online this summer. I saw that I had a 93 percentile, national! I felt like I had just reached the moon. I couldn't thank my Mom enough for doing what she had six years ago. She delivered the best education without even having known it, without having ever been to college!
I only had eight days to study a completely new pattern of exam and different form of language to get into college here, in the USA. I think I had done pretty well. It wouldn't have been possible without the help of many people, many situations and the many obstacles I had faced in the past six years.
On June 19, 1999 I completed a total flight time of twenty-three hours and a train ride of six hours to reach Jallandhar, India. The real journey was yet to begin. It was the ride of a lifetime.
I was born in India, but I had never really lived there. I spoke the language but I never learnt the real culture of my motherland. My Mom had thought of sending me to India......
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