Nangkor CS Celebrates Her 25th Birthday

I am immensely delighted to see Nangkor school attaining her 25 years as a peak of learning in the east. 

It is always privileged and proud to be Nangkorean ( student alumni of Nangkor school), having gotten an opportunity to study in such a prestigious school was everyone's wish. I was happy to be a part of Nangkor and to study there with highly qualified teachers and fellow mates whose heart and soul were endowed with milk of human kindness -beautiful souls. 

To commemorate the 25 years of her impactful presence of NCS I have written a narrative article of my stay in the school. Here it reads...

In the words of a young boy[me] who wanted to study in his awaited dream school to chase his goal, wrote a memoir in retrospect, reads the following: 

'How I Remember My Alma Mater Being Once a Nangkorean'

“Memories are always special

Sometimes we laughed by remembering the day we cried.

And we cried by remembering the day we laughed….!!

That’s life.”

I came to Nangkor at a very critical stage of my life – when I was more than a boy but less than a man.That is a stage in life where a person begins to know himself and lay foundations by coming with great dreams. I am thankful that I spent the defining stage of my life in Nangkor. The two years that I studied there made me who I am today. Had I not been there my life would be merely in doom and gloom.

          𝑋𝑙-𝑋𝑙 𝐴𝑟𝑡𝑠 𝐵 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐶𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑠 𝑇𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑟 

          𝑇𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐷𝑜𝑟𝑗𝑖. ( 𝐶𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑓 2020)

It was around March of 2019 when I first rove through the school gate, the only thought I had in my mind was to go back home. I didn’t really have a cherished, fanciful and fond memories from my previous school even I didn’t expect much from Nangkor either. Nangkor School epitomizes the rest of the schools in Pemagatshel district thus, its name has been hovered beyond boundary. It being a peak of learning institute it is also an aspiring school for the BCSE graduates who are yet to pursue their higher studies. My dream came true when I got enrolled there. Thereby hangs a tale to tell something that left me an unfading imprint in my heart during my stay in the Nangkor. But something terrified I was when I heard the ragging system from the seniors. This dreaded me a lot. The moment I got into my hostel room, my opinion changed. It wasn’t the kind of hostel I had known and dreaded. I gradually overcame my fears as I acclimatized with the new surroundings and began seeing things in a new light.

      𝐺𝑙𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑖 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔          𝑚𝑖𝑑-𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑚 𝑒𝑥𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝑁𝐶𝑆.

My love for history and anthropology got me into arts class which I opted against all the will of my previous teachers. Later, I was considered prestigious when I aced the papers in the arts section topping from two arts sections. Being an arts student gave me the privilege to explore beyond the syllabus. The history project in research has somehow given me partial satisfaction to quench my thirst for unexplored and lost history in the community. As part of my history project I did research on the lost history of Khar E-Tsang Tsho which unfolds the mystery of Dangling Tsho and statue of Bartsham Chador Lhakhang. That was the beginning of my lifelong relationship with history because I am now always intrigued to do research writing, besides my degree course required. I am grateful for my history teacher Tshering Dorji who paved me to the path of strengthening history and research. 

Thanks to my English teacher, Mr. Rinchen Sherab, who introduced me to the beauty and depth of poetry and literature, I began writing my own poems and pieces and forced my classmates to read. Some of them confessed to me to write love letters to win their paramour. Later, I learnt that some of them had successfully sailed through winning their mistress and I won laurels for making them perfect couples in the school. The mistake I made with writing then was trying to use bombastic words by keeping a dictionary next to me. It was much later that I realized how writing can be done with simply.

Sadly, I couldn’t made my appearance to any co-curricular activities as most of the time I remained in whisper. But in the classroom I was number one chatterbox and sometimes even my classmates would complain to me for talking too much in the class. 

    𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑚𝑦 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑠 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑀𝑟. 𝑇𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐷𝑜𝑟𝑗𝑖.

But just when I had begun to fall deeply in love with the school, the time ran out. I finished the board exams and it was time to go home never to come back. The car was waiting outside and I was inside the room crying like a baby. It took me a long time to console myself and I still remember the pain I felt.

Two years have passed since I said the final goodbye to Nangkor, but today most of my closest friends in life are from Nangkor days. We have seen life through the best and the worst of times, yet we have withstood the test of time. It was in the classroom, hostel, playfield and nocturnal Lhasey movement that I met the best friends of my life. 

        𝑁𝑒𝑤 𝑌𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠.

Just when everything was going perfectly, I met a girl and my high school love story began. I thought she was the one whom god had sent for me and perhaps she felt the same but I don’t know. By the time I realized, I had diverted all my attention on her. But I didn’t mind because I knew we were building a future for ourselves. It was just a pie in the sky to made head over heels to her and I woke up to realize that I had wasted couple of months of my life on a girl who didn’t mean anything to me the following year. 

  13/08/2021 𝐼 𝑙𝑒𝑓𝑡 𝐵ℎ𝑢𝑡𝑎𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑒 𝑚𝑦 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑠                             𝑖𝑛 𝐼𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑎.

All the good memories are from the two beautiful years from Nangkor. My principal, teachers, friends and all the fraternity of Nangkor were my ticket for studying in foreign soil. Today I smiled because of my Nangkor family. As I turn the pages of my personal history, I see that it was in the cocoon of Nangkor that I turned from ugly caterpillar to a colorful butterfly. It was there that I have built the foundations for everything I would ever do to make a happy living.

As an alumni of the Nangkor CS I wish my heartiest greetings to the family of Nangkor school on her Silver Jubilee celebration.

Happy Silver Jubilee!

~ Tshering Chedup Gatshel

Class of 2020 ( corona batch)😀