Monthly Archives: July 2002

Adios! (An early termination)

Jul 22, 2002 – 10:34

A few more ETs in the past month. ET meaning early termination. That’s what happens when a PCVs decides to resign.
Basically, one decides (a) that being in Nepal for two years isn’t worth sacrificing something else, like, let’s say, graduate school, work, cheese burgers, microbrew, comfort, etc., or (b) that they cannot stand fronting as [...]

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Swimming around

Jul 11, 2002 – 7:18

There’re quite a few things reminding me of the 1950s in the US. The sexes here rarely mingle with each other in social and business situations. There’s a strain of machismo in young Nepali men as they adhere to a very masculine archetype of manhood. Men wear aviator-style sunglasses with jackets cut above the waist, [...]

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