We were kind of settled here and a fixed routine started. Ajay started going to an elementary school and Ulka was going in a near by day care( a pre-kindergarden centre). Life was good, we both worked and it was Ok money wise. The only problem was my school which was in a very littlle town may be about 50 KM from the house. I had to catch a bus which was most of the times very crowded. I would come late as the school time was 10am. through 4pm. Leaving an hour earlier and coming home an hour late was geting very tiring. With all the stress, I was geting sick and physically tired. At last my prayers were heard and I was officially asked to join the B.Ed college which was now required for all teachers.
This B.Ed college was right in the city and was interesting as well. I knew most of the stuff. I finished my course and was awarded B.Ed certified to teach high school. After completing this course,I was not ready to go back to that little town to teach so I joined my further education program. I started the terms for working on M.Ed degree at the same college where Vijay was a professor. We went on our Lambreta scooter and worked all day there. We returned home together to our little children. We had a very good, energetic and kind nanny to take care of children when we worked. Her job was to get Ulka from her school and attend to bus when Ajay came home. Life was busy and smooth. My older brother in law lived in a nearby town called Sihore where he was a big officer in the police department. A jeep with driver and lot of constables to help them at home. We joined them for weekends some times and children enjoyed their company and ofcourse the jeep ride.
My two years M.Ed programe finished and I was now M.Sc.(zoology)and M.Ed. I was kind of proud of myself for being well educated with a good husband and two very good little children. Again I started looking for alternatives to avoid going for work in that little town so I started applying for Demonstration school jobs as there were some openings. These schools are also called DMS(demonstration multipurpose schools) which are affiliated to regional colleges where Vijay was working. Our plan was for me to join the same system where he worked so that we can get transferred together. Some how my hard work and a bit of luck worked together and I was given a job at one of these four DMS to teach Biology. It was out in a far away state called Orissa. Town was called Bhubaneshwar. It was a good size town. We both could go together ( he would teach in the college of Education and I would teach in the DMS attached to that college). We left Bhopal, wraped up our few belongings and went to a all together new state where we did not know the local language even. Now we were four people to go anywhere and every where our jobe would take us.----continued
