After the regular attendance at the office, we joined the speaking session of the Language classes at KIA. It was fun to talk about different aspects of Norwegian life in this class under the strict condition of using norsk words and phrases for the conversation. Tuesdays, the norsk classes are meant to be a speaking practice day. Immeadiately after, we were invited to join the regular Laget meeting with the guys from Agder University. We were informed that this meetings were held every fortnight. This was an evening of Praise and Worship and some speech. Well, the main speaker of the day was Mike,an American guy who had also been to Nepal some time ago. He was a awesome speaker not only in the sense that he was very good with his presentation and language but there was also a great depth in the message he delievered. I saw a big spark in his speech. He also took some time to share his feeling and realities about his trip to Nepal , particularly his observation about the negative influence of the western eduction system was very realistic and I could easily relate to it because I have been involved with the education system in Nepal as an English teacher for myself. On one hand it is good that you have been educated in the western education system as you possess the knowledge by the means of which you are exposed to Global issues and in a state of communicating in the most commonly communicated medium of language in the world. But on the other hand English education has turned out to be a necessary evil without which it has been a real chalenge to find a good job for an average nepali guy. I am myself an evidence to this case. Besides, the western education system has robbed new generation from thier actual ways of following thier cultute and tradition and injected this fancy rock, pop and hip-hop culture that looks very alien to the neplese culture. After the touching speech of Mike,it was me who was supposed to speak. Although it was not easy to speak after such a marvelous speaker like Mike, I had to make my best efforts to draw the attention of the audience who were the students and members of the student Laget at the University. It was equally challenging to maintain time for my speech as I had to consider to be short enough so as to provide enough time for the next speech to be delievered by Bishnu.
Despite of the considerations I had to go through, I managed to be good enough sharing my testimony to this realy interested audience. After the speeches of three speakers in the same meeting, it was like more than boring to the participants, it was quite inevitable to have some games after the speeches. Purposedly , these games were included in the program for a cause. This was something that was a new experience for me and Bishnu as the representives of NBCBS from Nepal cause we never had this kind of activities. We were playing some games in the middle of the meeting and even more shocking thing was that we had to pay some nominal charges to be a part of the game. Undoubtedly, the games were very exciting and unique and the attraction of the day was the lottery that was to be reaveled at the end of the day. We did'nt understand why these people were extracting so much money from the participants who were more than happy to offer as much more money as possible. Then all of a sudden we had a speech from the manager of this event about the purpose of having this kind of meeting. Actually it was a kind of fund raising meeting to collect fund to support a missionary worker in the muslim world. Then we felt very inspired to have been a part of such an event. And all the questions and curiosities about the program was quite to me. It was really commendable to do such a thing for a good cause.
Monday, 20th October, 2008
A Day of many Activities.
Started the day with regular Bible study and Prayer at the office and continued on planning about the week program.Then followed the norsk classes.Its getting exciting because we are learning new words and expressions every week.Besides, this time has been an oppertunity to meet new people coming from many other nations wishing to learn norsk. We get to have new faces almost every week. The feeling of knowing more norwegian than the new comers make me feel better and encourages to learn more and more....... 
