What is your name? What is your age? What is your village?
- My name is Pramod Khichi. I am 12, fro Uchiarda.
When did you come to the hostel?
- I’ve been here for two years.
Describe your family. Describe the family members, who they are, their ages, etc. Tell how it is to live with your family. What were the hardships and challenges that you faced, living at home?
- My father is dead. He died when I was nine. My mother oversees our farm. We have three men and one woman working on it. I have one younger brother. My mother takes care of the family. She pays for everything with crops, not money.
What did you do before you came to the hostel? Work? Study?
- I studied.
What challenges do you encounter here at the hostel?
- None.
Do you like the hostel, the school? In what ways do you like or dislike them?
- I like it here very much. I have lots of friends and the school is good.
What makes you happy?
- I am happy when I’m with my friends. I love to go to marriages because the whole family is there.
If you had three wishes, what would you wish for?
- I want to support my mother. I want to make something of myself. I want to complete school before I get married.
What would you like to do in the future?
- I want to be independent.
- I want to be a math teacher.
- I want to help my mother.
What would you have if you could have anything in the world?
- I want to be independent.
- I want to be a math teacher.
- I want to help my mother.
Tell me about your mother.
- She’s strong. She works hard. She can do anything.
What makes you cry?
- Homesickness, and remembering my father.