During training, one of the hardest and seemingly most necessary things I wanted to communicate to my host family was that I missed home. I missed home. I missed my friends. I missed pizza and beer as dark as the nights in my new, lightless neighborhood.
But the best that I could do after two months [...]
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 [...]
Way back in July it was hot—really hot. The hot that you can’t escape, that makes you uncomfortable in your skin.
Since it was July it was also the thick of the monsoon. Since it was July I still wasn’t half sure why or what I was doing in Nepal or if I’d even be here [...]
Public transportation is the best way to meet people. It’s also the near equivalent of putting a revolver in your mouth with a hundred chambers and one bullet and playing Russian roulette; I am not dead.
On my last bus trip to Kathmandu I saw one head-on collision, two buses that had fallen off the side [...]
