~~A day out with Hyung~~

Apart from my own brother I have another brother in Chicago whom I call him as Hyung,meaning elder brother in Korean.He is my current class mate and a good mentor of mine.He is from Chicago and I had promised him I would visit him during this summer vacation.Today morning he picked me from Sivaram's place. We took a drive around the Chicago suburbs, we drove around a Skokie,a Jewish village in Chicago where the crime rate is low compared to other parts of the city. There were few shops where the sign where written in Hebrew. Hyung was sharing some interesting experiences he had while working with the Jewish customers. Then he took me to davon street which was littered with Indian shops on either sides.

After this mini trip around the city we went to have lunch at Sweet tomato joined by his wife and kid. This is the first time I m going to a restaurant where I had lots to choose from, there were lots of vegetarian salads, soups pastas, noodles, baked potato, fruits,pastrys etc . After a long time I was little confused on what to take and what to leave.After a wonderful lunch we drove to his home. We had to register for the courses for our next semester ,since we had to take up six courses for the next semester we were discussing how busy our schedule will be, Hyung surprised me by saying he had already taken up something like that before and said about his experience which increased my respect I had on him.

After marriage Hyung and his wife decided to masters, Hyung enrolled to do his MBA and his wife enrolled for masters in arts and science. During one of the semester his wife was pregnant and expecting a baby in the middle of the semester, so his wife could not goto class, either she had to skip the semester or write the exam without attending the class. But Hyung found his class was in evening and his wife's in morning,since it was not clashing he went to his wife's class took notes for her and then in evening attended his MBA classes.In the night he used to teach her whatever he learnt in the morning class.I couldn't even imagine how crazy his schedule would have been that time.He laughed and said though his grades were affected that semester his wife passed out with wonderful grades.

I know people who have written assignments for their wife but attending classes for her is taking dedication to the next level.