Helicopter in Dorokha....

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elicopter in Dorokha...! are you kidding chum? I joked with Mr. Wang few weeks ago when he first shared the news, but it landed here for the first time in all its history. As it descended down the valley, the children rushed out all in excitement as if they were to invited for a ride around, the villagers from far flung catchments all jumping and soaking in summer’s heat came by to have a closer look. “All my life I saw it fly over like an eagle high above and to see it land here today is a dream like reality, it’s really great and life is changing”, said an elderly man with all smiles. “Yeah bajay! (nepali term for an elderly man). All we need is a longer life to experience all new, new” I replied. Amid our brief conversation, he moves nearer to atleast touch it for himself while all others got busy posing with the best possible smiles on their cameras and cell phones to proudly carve a memory with the best of their looks, whilst some wanted to get in there if permitted.  

Whatever the business, it had the best of impact on education anyhow. Now it would be absolutely easier to teach types of transportation or the advantages of air transport. Over the year I found it easier to teach them land transport due to its everyday association with their lives while it’s hard to teach the advantages and disadvantages of air and water transport especially to smaller kids. Now that they have firsthand experience on air transport I already made the next wish of taking my children to see water transport by Amochu bank, if they would ever do a survey on Torsa Khola power project by water or if tourism council would use this rich resources for rafting in the area.

my memoir with helicopter in Dorokha

Apart from achieving its planed task, BPC did educate the students in Dorokha middle Secondary School (now central school) as students experienced the new experience. Like Bajay said; life is changing and I thought, it’s good that it’s changing, so I pose tapped a memoir myself too, LOL…

note:- This article This article was written on 12^th September 2014, when helicopter came to dorokha for transporting BPC equipments to Sombeykha. The article was inspired by an elderly man’s reaction on seeing the Helicopter… the man poses behind me. the photo will be uploaded very soon...