Below is a copy of my official record of what I did as a Peace Corps volunteer in Nepal, sort of. After completing my service, this DOS will be the only record of my Peace Corps experience in Nepal.
And it doesn’t nearly express what my experience meant to me nor all the things that happened—good [...]
I was out doing the bidding of Peace Corps when I met Alfred. He’s the headsir of St. Xavier’s, a private school next door to Shripur, a government secondary school where I had been doing some scouting for a possible site for a volunteer.
St. Xavier’s facade suggested that it was an upper-tier school. Like its [...]
If I’m tired of talking about one thing it’s my work. As soon as I see a friend, the first thing that is asked is, So, how’s your school?
I tell and retell stories about teachers interrupting my classes, the headsir walking out of the office while I’m talking to him, and just the generally unwelcoming [...]
