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Aboard the world’s longest flight

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  Long-haul flights can be daunting, but the idea of flying the world’s longest commercial flight can be especially daunting, even for some seasoned flyers. As an expatriate Bangladeshi living in the US, I am no stranger to long-haul flights. Even so, I was somewhat skeptical about surviving Singapore Airlines ’   SQ 23 , which takes off from John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), New York and lands at Changi Airport, Singapore , making it the world’s longest passenger flight; a total of 19 hours from gate to gate. We drove 2.5 hours from Delaware to New York, then took an Uber to JFK after parking our car. After checking in and clearing airport security, we finally had some time to relax. Our business class tickets gave us access to the Air India lounge , where I thought their furniture could use an upgrade. The food, however, turned out to be surprisingly delicious.  As we waited for our flight to start boarding, I felt that a long drive and a lengthy security c...
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Children and Acts of Giving

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Many of us donate our money, time and belongings to good causes every year, and it’s the least we can do for those who are less fortunate than us. But after my daughter started attending pre-school, I realized that the importance of giving needs to be ingrained in a child at an early age.  My two-year-old daughter goes to a pre-school, where they teach children about giving from a tender age of two. In their first semester, the teachers asked the students to bring in loose change from home to donate. The children dropped the coins into a jar that was placed outside their classroom. On that project, the school partnered with Heifer International, a global nonprofit organization that works towards ending world hunger and poverty. My daughter’s pre-school is a small one but together they collected $386, which they used to purchase treadle pumps, tree seedlings, a goat and a flock of chicks for communities in need.  The school also organized their annual harvest food driv...
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