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 [...]
By Scott Wallick
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Posted in Nepal, Nepali Culture, Peace Corps culture
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Also tagged Birtamod, Islam, Islamic extremists, Jhapa, Kolkata, Nissam, Sunjay, Time Pass, tragedies
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I’d only just passed through customs in San Francisco (SFO) when I heard a page for a “Kumar Shrestha.” First impulse was to go to the Delta counter that had paged him and sit around to wait for him, shouting, Bala du?.
I didn’t. Instead I bought a newspaper and a coffee to pass the three-hour [...]
For the past two weeks I’ve started becoming rather familiar with the underground world of primary schools in Birganj.
For the next year I’ll be working with primary English teachers, helping them to develop their teaching and English skills. At the moment this requires lots of visits to my cluster of schools, roughly 26 in the [...]
By Scott Wallick
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Posted in Birganj, Nepali Culture, Teacher Training
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Also tagged Birganj, black and white, Chhotaily, Hinduism, marriage, NGO, poetry, prosthelyzing, RK Yadav
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