Our Stories @ Austin
Are we in the USA?? It was 11:30 on the Wednesday night of 8 th August 2007 when we (me and my husband Gaurav) found ourselves flying over Austin ….a city we had never been to before …..thousands of miles away from home, it was the strange city that we intended to make ours for our future years to come. The feelings were very mixed. We were landing into the totally strange city in a not so strange for Indians, country, USA . Like most Indians, we had also pictured a glamorous image of America in mind during our childhood and career making years of college. And I think most of you will agree that images made in childhood fantasies are so strongly preserved in our minds always that they refuse to fade away easily, no matter how much we know or have known in reality in our present. So, inspite of all the idea we gained about USA through reading blogs and more than that, the fact that I had been to northern states of US for 4 months before already, we both were experiencing same sense o