Monthly Archives: February 2004

Peace Corps volunteer safety and security

The last thing that I wrote about safety and security got my webpage shut down by Peace Corps’ Washington, DC, office.
Perhaps it’s just coincidental that my predictions about the situation in the Rautahaut, Bara, and Parsa districts have mostly come true, much to the frustration of Peace Corps’ Kathmandu office. Not that it matters.
The fact [...]

What I did

Somehow we came up with idea over dinner. I had just arrived in Jhapa district to visit Andrew in Birtamod one last time before our Peace Corps’ lives ended.
I was going to stay for a night, maybe two, before heading back to Birganj.
Anyhow, I think we were having dinner and Andrew was talking about the [...]

Closing ceremonies

I was out in Birtamod after the Thanksgiving trip to Kolkata. I was having lunch with a guy from the Peace Corps’ office in Washington, DC.
He was security. He told me that he had been doing, well, military intelligence in Somalia for a several years before retiring and coming to work for the Peace Corps. [...]