[Assam] Irani-Israeli joint venture; UBC's lovely campus

[umesh sharma]

Rajen-da,

Thanks for the encouragement and also the other ways
in which you have helped me in my seeking visas etc.
About autobiography there are so many people writing
that who wants to read. I myself read other people's
lives to get inspired though.

Vancouver promises to be a great visit.

Best.

Umesh



--- Barua25 <barua25 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Congratulations Umesh!
> You are doing real well.
> BTW Vancouver is one of the the most beautiful
> cities in the world (if not the best). Enjoy as much
> while exploring your life. (I hope you are keeping
> these notes for your future auto-biography.
> Rajenda
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "umesh sharma" <jaipurschool at yahoo.com>
> To: <assam at assamnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 8:41 PM
> Subject: [Assam] Irani-Israeli joint venture; UBC's
> lovely campus
> 
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > There is an interesting love story blossoming at
> the
> > place where I am staying. The product is an eight
> > month old child. The father is from Iran who
> escaped
> > (as a boy) with his mother and older brother to
> Canada
> > overnight while hiding and running across the
> border
> > into Turkey and somehow onto Canada as refugees
> -becos
> >  of their faith. The father of that boy could not
> > leave the country . 
> > 
> > Later the boy's mother died of cancer when he was
> > sixteen . His father died in a car accident soon
> after
> > in Iran. That boy met an American girl of Jewish
> > (Israeli) descent at an International School in
> > Vancouver -many years later they were married in
> 2004
> > - just before his wife joined Harvard as a
> student.
> > Right now I am in their house in Vancouver. They
> both
> > follow the Bahai faith (remember the Lotus temple
> at
> > Nehru Place in Delhi) and had met at an
> international
> > school at Vancouver. 
> > 
> > The Irani lad now is a medical student at
> University
> > of British Columbia (the state in which Vancouver
> is
> > based) -and staying in student housing duplex for
> > families. I am camping in their living room. He
> took
> > me to  look at the campus -which I was surprised
> to
> > find is located right at sea shore (more like a
> bay)
> > and across the bay are high mountains completely
> > covered with conifers) and many Hollywood films
> are
> > shot there. He has seen Schwarzenegger there, met
> > briefly Wesley Snipes (of The Blade fame), Vin
> Diesel
> > of SWAT, XXX fame, Van Damme of Universal SOldier
> > fame.. Even now there were plenty of carvans etc
> of
> > some film units.
> > 
> > I was reading this book by Robert Schuller - The
> Times
> > do not survive  but tough people do--which gave
> > examples of survival. I think I have not met a
> greater
> > survivor than this man from Iran. Besides becoming
> an
> > orphan as a teen - in an new country - he himself
> was
> > struck with cancer. His future wife who at the
> time
> > had gone to work with AIDS victims etc in
> Zimbabwe,
> > Botswana etc (which have highest % of AIDS in
> > population -upto 40% of adult popu) and somehow
> lost
> > touch with him came to know about it -when he
> called
> > from the hospital while undergoing chemotherapy.
> Nowhe
> > is fine -and perhaps wants to repay the debt of
> the
> > doctors by becoming one himself.
> > At this Univ. only local residents are accepted as
> > students for the medical program since there is
> > extreme shortage of doctors in this area.
> > 
> > A wonderful and inspiring story of a family
> hailing
> > from politically antagonistic regions .
> > 
> > Isn't it?
> > 
> > Umesh
> > 
> > 
> > Umesh Sharma
> > 5121 Lackawanna ST
> > College Park, MD 20740 USA
> > 
> > Current temp. address: 5649 Yalta Place ,
> Vancouver, Canada
> > 
> >  1-202-215-4328 [Cell Phone]
> > Canada # (607) 221-9433
> > 
> > Ed.M. - International Education Policy
> > Harvard Graduate School of Education,
> > Harvard University,
> > Class of 2005
> > 
> > weblog: http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >
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Umesh Sharma
5121 Lackawanna ST
College Park, MD 20740 USA

Current temp. address: 5649 Yalta Place , Vancouver, Canada

 1-202-215-4328 [Cell Phone]
Canada # (607) 221-9433

Ed.M. - International Education Policy
Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Harvard University,
Class of 2005

weblog: http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/


		
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