Category Archives: Peace Corps culture

Peace Corps has quite an interesting culture, full of slang, binge drinking, and unusual ways of living

Epistle from Birganj

My job is far more complicated than it seems in print. Basically I work for the Parsa DEO and have a counterpart based out of that office.
Her name is Shova. She’s a nice woman. We don’t really work together much these days, mostly because when I’m in Birgnaj she’s in Kathmandu. And when I’m in [...]

Characters, part 1

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.
Here are three individuals I met while in Jhapa back [...]

Tomorrow or the day after

Just like Birganj, my flight from Kathmandu to Birganj was packed with characters. First of all, I had been away from the ‘Ganj for nearly six weeks.
I remember when Rob had been gone from Birganj for nearly two months people starting appearing every where to ask me, Where is Rob? Where is Rob?
I think some [...]

Retrained: Revisiting PST

As I mentioned before, I’d been invited to PST to teach a couple classes in government schools for the new group (N/196) to observe. But observe what? The new group has lots of energy and interest in their jobs.
This could go without saying, but some groups are more casual about work. Yes, we’re volunteers for [...]

Welcome to the party

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 US and work out the details with Andrew on the [...]