Days 1–3, Narayanghat to Pokhara
Our vacation really began at around 4:00 AM in Narayanghat on Sunday, October 6 (Day 1). It was our last day I the Terai before we escaped to the crisp air and mountain views of Pokhara and its beautiful (we had been told so) Fewa Lake. But the Terai is a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
It had been a rough couple of weeks. I had the misfortune of being in the first group of volunteers to leave Narayanghat the day after swearing in. We were to leave early, by 6 o’clock.
We were the volunteers to the southeast, just three hours away: Jane-Erie, also going to Birganj; Patty, a forestry instructor [...]
