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Returning to Nepal after twelve days in a Doha, Qatar, jail, I have made a number of interesting discoveries. One of them is the fact that I shouldn't travel to the Gulf at all and the other is that the charges of insulting Islam has, indeed, NOT been dropped.
Some battles are better left unfought even if you are in the right and you stand to lose money.
Travel gives you opportunities to learn about other cultures and people amongst other things. It opens your eyes up. Having learned about others, it also helps you see your own country and culture in a different light.
The following is the video of one of the three presentations I made to students at Suva Intermediate School, where my UWCAD friend Larry used to work. I talk to about my dreams and life and following dreams to classroom full of mostly Hispanic children, many of whom come from lower middle class or lower class families.
At a presentation to children and families from lower-middle class and lower class in Mexico, I share with them how I followed my dreams and beat the odds to achieve academic and professional success. I share with them how I did it, and to tell them to not lose hope!
Travel give you opportunities to learn, intimately, about people and places you otherwise wouldn't. It also gives you opportunities to to do things that you had never imagined doing, and in the process you become a person that you might have never imagined being!
