I was out in Birtamod after the Thanksgiving trip to Kolkata. I was having lunch with a guy from the Peace Corps’ office in Washington, DC.
He was security. He 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. [...]
Due to a glitch in the Peace Corps mechanism, I’ve been asked to come to the Peace Corps PST training site and teach in a class while the new folks, PCTs, watch. I could fly, but I’ve decided to take a bus to Bhairahawa, where PST is being held.
I have a plan of gradually traveling [...]
We were supposed to have a turkey. By we, I mean everyone congregating in Biratnagar for Thanksgiving. The celebrations had been planned ahead of time and your invitation merely required bringing something Thanksgiving related, where it was food or an accordion-style turkey for décor.
I hadn’t thought of what I was going to bring for Thanksgiving [...]
