Tag Archives: Birtamod

What I did

By Scott Wallick | Published: Feb 11, 2004

Somehow we came up with idea over dinner. I had just arrived in Birtamod, Jhapa, to visit Andrew one last time before our lives as PCVs. I was going to stay for a night, maybe two, before heading back to Birganj. Anyhow, we were having dinner, and Andrew was talking about the school visits he would be making the next day: a short in-and-out trip to invite two English teachers to an upcoming training.

Posted in Peace Corps culture, Teacher training, Terai | Also tagged dental health, massu, NGOs, Peace Corps, Rasuwa, SUVs, Terai life, thulo manches | Comments closed

Closing ceremonies

By Scott Wallick | Published: Feb 1, 2004

I was in Birtamod just after the Thanksgiving trip to Kolkata. I was having lunch with two guys from the Peace Corps office in Washington, DC. They were security. On guy 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. He told me that when Peace Corps has had to evacuate its volunteers from a country, it’s usually because of families calling the office. Or a senator.

Posted in Close of service, Teacher training | Also tagged ANNISU, bandhas, Biratnagar, Dharan, Godavari, Kathmandu, Newari, PST, teachers, utpas | Comments closed

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.

Posted in Birganj, Close of service, Peace Corps culture, Teacher training, Terai | Also tagged ANNISU, Birganj, East-West Highway, Fewa Lake, Himanchal Cabin, Itahari, Jhapa, Peace Corps experience, Rajbiraj, Terai life | Comments closed

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.

Posted in Kolkata, Peace Corps culture | Also tagged Bengali, buses, Calcutta, Flury's, Hinidi, holidays, Howrah, India Museum, India Rail, Karkarbhitta, Kolkata, Laloo, Siliguri, Thanksgiving, US Consulate, West Bengal | Comments closed

Characters, part 1

By Scott Wallick | Published: Oct 19, 2003

Oh, the places you go and the people you met. I’ve been in Nepal now for 15 months and met more than a couple interesting people. I decided that I’d write about some of the more interesting people I’ve met in installments. This is the first.

Posted in Peace Corps culture, Terai | Also tagged Christianity, Islam, Islamic extremists, Jhapa, Kolkata, Nissam, Sunjay, Time Pass, tragedies | Comments closed