After two bombs exploded at the American Center in Kathmandu, throwing shrapnel here and there, Peace Corps decided to suspend its program in Nepal.
This is the first time that Peace Corps has suspended its program in Nepal, which had run continuously for 42 years. That’s thousands of PCVs have served in Nepal and returned home [...]
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. [...]
I remember where I was last Tihar, a year ago. A year ago? A year ago I’d gone to Kathmandu to hang out at the Spice deraa, my old co-owned flat in Kathmandu, with some of the folks there.
Pardon me while I wax nostalgic, but a year ago I was living in a different house [...]
I am not a twelve-year-old Nepali girl, never mind what the tailors in Nepal seem to think. I’ve been on a mission lately to get a pair of pants and a shirt made in Kathmandu while I’ve been here working on my Teach for America application.
Getting some clothes made seems like a mission impossible, and [...]
After two weeks in the Kathmandu Valley, I arrived in Birganj on a foggy, damp Thursday morning. I stepped off a bus that I had taken from Hetauda, about an hour and a half north of Birganj and as far as the Peace Corps jeep had taken me the day before.
I had spent the night [...]
