Last weekend we hosted four students from the American School in Islamabad, Pakistan. They were here for a soccer tournament for 3 days and all 140 students stayed with families. It was nice, especially for Zach, since all the boys were about his age. Two of the boys were born in Pakistan, one came from Nepal, and the fourth one was born in England but his family moved to Pakistan when he was 10 years old. All four boys are planning to attend college in the U.S. Two of them had applied in Indiana and I told Zach that it would be so strange if one day he walks into a doctor's office and his doctor is one of these four boys! The boys asked us about Kentucky and they told us that Islamabad is beautiful and we should come and visit! Of course just before that they told us that they had only been able to play two games before coming to India because that was the two weeks leading up to the Pakistan elections so they were unable to play. I'll have to think twice (or ten times) about visiting there. But it's just so interesting the perspective of the people who actually live in a country--usually it's so unlike what we see on the news. When I asked them if they had seen or experienced any violence or demonstrations like we had seen on TV, they said that they had not seen anything like that at all. Who knows, maybe by the time I'm an old lady, Pakistan will be a hot tourist destination???
No comments:
Post a Comment