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’ve been here working on my Teach for America application.
Getting some clothes made seems like a mission impossible, and [...]
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 [...]
After two weeks in the Kathmandu Valley, I arrived in Birganj on a foggy, damp Thursday morning. I stepped off a bus that I had taken from Hetauda, about an hour and a half north of Birganj and as far as the Peace Corps jeep had taken me the day before.
I had spent the night [...]
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 [...]
