Tag Archives: Gaidankot

Collected stories, part 1

Dec 16, 2002 – 8:01

Let me tell you, some days when I make the first morning appearance in Birganj just outside of my flat the three-year-old kid half-naked, covered in the black muck of Birganj, yells at me, Hello seto! Hello seto, and, finally, Hello whitey!
I think to myself, Gee, was he talking to me? I think I’ve abandoned [...]

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Adios! (An early termination)

Jul 22, 2002 – 10:34

A few more ETs in the past month. ET meaning early termination. That’s what happens when a PCVs decides to resign.
Basically, one decides (a) that being in Nepal for two years isn’t worth sacrificing something else, like, let’s say, graduate school, work, cheese burgers, microbrew, comfort, etc., or (b) that they cannot stand fronting as [...]

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