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ESOL Voices: Student Spotlight


ESOL Voices: Student Spotlight

Birkha Thapa

Birkha is an ESOL student who was born in Bhutan, but lived for many years in a refugee camp in Nepal. Birkha has lived in the United States for 2 years. He has a wife and 4-year-old daughter. Birkha plans to study engineering science at MCC. Birkha writes about his story from the 1990s, when many Bhutanese citizens of Nepali descent were forcibly removed from Bhutan. Click on the pdf to read his story.

ESOL Voices a collection of stories written by ESOL students at Monroe Community College.  This semester, we are highlighting students from Asian countries.  Look for a new story in the Tribune each month.  We hope you will find these stories interesting and inspiring.  -

Katie Leite & Pamela Fornieri
ESOL & Transitional Studies
05/15/2014


Attachments:
icon Birkha Thapa.pdf