Category Archives: Kathmandu

Kathmandu is quite a place, reflecting the diversity and long history of Nepal.

Peace Corps/Nepal suspended

By Scott Wallick | Published: Sep 14, 2004
After two bombs exploded at the American Center in Kathmandu, throwing shrapnel here and there, Peace Corps decided to suspend its program in Nepal. This is the first time that Peace Corps has suspended its program in Nepal, which had run continuously for 42 years. That's thousands of PCVs having served in Nepal and returned home to tell others of their experiences. But, more importantly, what does this mean for our well loved staff of Peace Corps/Nepal?
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Readymade

By Scott Wallick | Published: Aug 27, 2003
I am not a twelve-year-old Nepali girl, never mind what the tailors in Nepal seem to think. I've been on a mission lately to get a pair of pants and a shirt made in Kathmandu while I'm here working on my Teach for America application. Getting some clothes made seems like a mission impossible, and it has almost consumed me wholly, thinking constantly about seems, stitches, and pleats.
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Welcome to the party

By Scott Wallick | Published: Mar 5, 2003
I'd like to mention something about the new group. I was in Kathmandu a week or so ago for the NELTA conference. The conference ended on a Monday and I was planning to stick around for a couple days to arrange my plane tickets to the United States and work out the details with Andrew on the India adventure. The new volunteers were arriving on Wednesday. Along with Mary, Ravi, Mike, and Alayne, we rode to the airport in a Peace Corps jeep as the welcoming committee.
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Two weeks in the Kathmandu Valley

By Scott Wallick | Published: Jan 31, 2003
I had spent the night in Hetauda, which I can't complain about since I drank tungba and ate sekuti, throwbacks from PST and unavailable in Birganj, but I was on the first bus the next morning as I was anxious to get back to school. I should have known. As I walked across the mall towards my school, I knew something wasn't right. The grounds were quiet and the muffled hum of children was absent.
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First of the year

By Scott Wallick | Published: Jan 28, 2003
About three weeks ago I left Birganj and headed into the Kathmandu Valley. First, I went in for my education group's IST. The week after was the yearly Peace Corps Nepal's All-Vol, something that is talked about from the moment of arrival in country. I'd been in the Terai, i.e., Birganj, for a couple of months and I was ready to get out of the flatlands and into the valley.
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