Category Archives: Places

While in the Peace Corps, I managed to travel to many places in Nepal, and even skipped across the border to India a number of times.

Finishing touches

By Scott Wallick | Published: Jan 23, 2004

During training, one of the hardest and seemingly most necessary things I wanted to communicate to my host family was that I missed home. I missed home. I missed my friends. I missed pizza and beer as dark as the nights in my new, lightless neighborhood. But the best that I could do, after two months of Peace Corps’ astounding language training, was to tell them, Ma yad garchhu, I remember.

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Thanksgiving travels

By Scott Wallick | Published: Dec 1, 2003

If I said that my Thanksgiving plans for this year were made by my friends while they trekking around Sikkim with the US Consulate to India, I might sound a little over the top, as if I was trying to impress whoever might stumble across these scribblings.

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Haiku composed upon recent developments

By Scott Wallick | Published: Nov 22, 2003

This morning as I left my flat to head out into Birganj, I discovered something very troublesome. On many levels. I paused, then composed a haiku.

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Characters, part 2

By Scott Wallick | Published: Nov 20, 2003

Previously I wrote about some of the unique people I’d met in Jhapa district, namely Sunjay the Islamic Extremists and a child named Time Pass. I’d now like to write about some of the odd Birganj-wallahs that have crossed my path since coming to this town.

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Burning candles, Tihar

By Scott Wallick | Published: Oct 31, 2003

I remember where I was last Tihar, a year ago. A year ago? A year ago I’d gone to Kathmandu to hang out at the Spice deraa, my old co-owned flat in Kathmandu, with some of the folks there. Pardon me while I wax nostalgic.

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