Tag Archives: Hetauda

Peace Corps volunteer safety and security

By Scott Wallick | Published: Feb 24, 2004

The last thing that I wrote about safety and security got my Web site shut down by the Peace Corps Washington, DC, office. Perhaps it’s just a coincident that my predictions (or rather, intelligence collected) about the security situation in the Rautahaut, Bara, and Parsa districts have come true, much to the frustration of the Peace Corps Kathmandu office. Not that it matters. The fact is that we PCVs are ourselves responsible for our safety. How can someone expect someone else to take care of them?

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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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