Monday, January 21, 2008

Missing the family - but technology helps


I've been to the USA for about 7 months. This is my longest stay in a foreign soil without accompanying the near and dear ones. Mine has a very small immediate family - wife & only child son. Naturally I miss them everyday. Without their sacrifice it won't be possible for me to come & stay here as a Humphrey Fellow. So very special thanks to them for their sacrifices. However, thanks to techonolgy also - as it compensates to some extent of everyday missing the nearest ones. Internet technology allows us to talk almost everyday mostly at free. As an example, today I chatted and talked by using the audio clips. My son, from the other end, sent some recent pics of them (one as above, he with his mum).

My wife is expected to join me by the first week of March'08. But my son isn't coming as he's busy with his own study. I'm glad that inshallah he's doing excellent in his study at the Institute of Business Administration (IBA) of Dhaka University.

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