Posted by: pire August 3, 2010
Parents in USA - Best timepass
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Dipsikha,
How long are you planning to have them here? Hope not very long.

I have a neighbor, a good engineer friend who makes 100K+. He brought his mom to look after his kids. The kids are absolutely adorable, and they like their grandma, but they are also playing all the time, and making a lot of noises all the time. My friend too loves his mom, keeps on asking her about her wellbeing, and takes her to go around during the weekend, or whenever he can.

But one day, the mom told me that she absolutely misses her home back in Nepal. Even the temples. The neighbors. The satsanga group. The facility of being able to buy vegetables and fruits at her will. (She is widow). Her other grandchildren from daughters' side. The boredom was killing her soul. She also felt she was becoming sick more often, eventhough it made her sound like hypochondriac in our eyes.

Zee TV, playing cards with indian neighbors who were his age was my father's pastime here, but he always goes back after a few months. (He has visited me thrice here already.) My father loves travelling, but he has not shown much interest in coming here after his third trip (it has been a year). My mother hates the long travel and endless transit. I can't imagine them spending even a few hours at Christian's church, btw. They don't understand English, and in any case, I used to visit the Church for chicks, but I have grown to dislike their pushy attitude. May be you have better nonpushy church nearby, but I was in a situation once when my father was telling a church visitor  that all religions are equal and the man was saying him that it was absolutely necessary to be a Christian to go to heaven and I had to interpret it.
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