My name is Ngodup and I was born in the Tibetan countryside in a small peaceful village and my family are farmers as well as nomads.
When I was a child I used to live with the animals like yaks and sheep. When I was back in Tibet I didn’t get an opportunity to go to school.
When I was fourteen years old my family moved to a city called Lithang. Actually my family didn’t have enough money to move to a city but the purpose of moving to a city was that my father wanted to send my younger brother and me to a Chinese school.
After my family moved to the city I didn’t join the Chinese school because my father could not afford to send two boys to school. Even though my father didn’t have enough money, he requested me to go to a school. However, I didn’t accept that because I am the oldest son in my family, so I thought I have the responsibility to look after my family and try to earn some money to help my father.
After one year my father bought me a taxi and I can earn some money for my family.
I tried to get a Chinese passport since 2004 but I got it in 2010. I applied many times to get it and I was sick of that, but luckily I got it. Not only me, every Tibetan person inside Tibet is having difficulties with getting a Chinese passport and most people had to cross the Himalaya mountains to come to India to see His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and many people lost their lives on the mountains and many people lost legs and arms.
I came to India in 2010 with my cousin’s sister and we stayed at a Tibetan house in Nepal for around two months, and then we came to Dharamshala in India and stayed there for 15 days and got the opportunity to see His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
After that we went to South India to visit our uncle in the Sera Monastery and we stayed there for around one year and a half. Then my cousin’s sister went back to Tibet because she is the only child in her family, and I decided to stay in India and learn some different languages like French and English.
We came to Delhi with our cousin’s uncle, he went to see off my cousin’s ister to Nepal and I came to Dharamshala and joined the Lha English and French class and other English classes in McLeod Ganj.
Lha is veryhelpful to me, not only education, they give me lunch Monday to Friday and we only have to pay Rs15 a day. Thank you very much to the volunteer teachers for your great help and I hope and wish you will come again to help us.
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