On June 24th departmental picnic had been organized by some of our friends in the chemistry department. This picnic was at Lake Carl Black Well and was for families and friends. I with my wife Durga participated in that picnic. The time to reach there was fixed at 1:00 pm. The day was bright sunny day. We were second group among the persons to reach there. First were Dr. Blum (Chairperson of the department) and Hameed. We got lift from Kedar Nepal and Balika in their newly bought Honda CRV. Department had booked 20 passes for the car inside the lake.
People started arriving at the venue only after 1:30 pm. We reached there had some snacks and BBQ. Being vegetarian I had veg burger. I was accompanied by one of my veg friend from India Mr. Devang Khambati. Dr. Blum had brought four Kayaks. We did kayaking in the lake. It was my first time to do kayaking. We also did swimming. As I don't know how to swim, I enjoyed playing in water.
We had lots of fun though some of the accident occurred with the kayak, Balika once got stocked in the waves and Charmaine had to swim to pull her off, Hameed's kayak overturned in the middle of the lake where he lost his glasses.
Later on they made Chicken drum sticks and we BBQed some vege stuffs like potatoes, corn, mushrooms, tomatoes and other. We left the lake very late in the evening.
One of the good aspect was that we came to know the friends and their families in the department. And there were most international students among them majority was Nepali students. The thing I couldn't understand is there were all international students except Beth and her friend and Dr. Blum himself. There are lots of American graduate students in our department but they did not participate. They might be busy or they might have their own reasons but as a new international student and new to US no one can know what thing is going into my mind. I have heard from back home that 'they' are among themselves and are not like us 'Asians' who are more social. I felt the same situation in Europe during my Norway stay and might repeat the same in US. Never know this is northern country and people from south are different. Never know.
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