good job of awaring a fellow Bal. I went OCin 2001. It was horrible. I didn't find a job for a month and finally found at Formula 1 , amusement park. I was working 13 hours a day, out in the sun, in an emotionally abusive enviroment. i used to get one day a month break from work. I used to count days for that. To tell you the truth , i thought people in jail had less stressful and enjoyable life than that. Whites treated Nepalis as shytt... I remember when we used to go in the bus after hard day of work. They used to make comments on how we stink and stuff... it all started with a disgusting look from the bus driver and ended with harassment and tunts of fellow passangers until we got off the bus. I felt so bad that i used to walk from 33rd street, i think to the 8th street in midnight...so i could get like few hours of sleep back in the apt... In the apartment , there used to be 17 people. We were lucky to find a place, almost ended on the street. Thanks to Nepail guys back there, they were really nice and became friends quickly. Everyone was working like dog, getting good sleep was so hard cuz everyone would have to get awake from different person waking up and heading to work at different hours. house was shytty and trashy... but the company with friends was nice.. I still get shiver. .. i thought that summer was the worse summer of my life... until next summer when i didn't go there and ended up almost becoming homeless with 20 hours of work in campus... Bal is right, you're fked either way... that is why it's better to come here in masters, study science because science get funds, and get TAs and RAs , only science major can get those, mostly. .... enjoy your america or make it into hell is up to you.. too bad you end up making that choice when you're naive and back in Nepal.... wish life had choices as that scene from metrix.. and you could pick that red pill instead of the green one and forget and get back to where you left off back home.... like 2 pac said, haha dog life niggaaar dog lifeee