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 [...]
It was the end of December and I was coming back to Birganj from Rajbiraj. I’d celebrated Christmas for the second time in Rajbiraj and was thinking that this would be the last time I’d be there, the last time I’d make the trip I’d made perhaps ten times before.
Last year’s Christmas was, well, difficult. [...]
I’ve edited and rewritten this preface more times than the entry it proceeds. I guess what I want to say, really, is, this story isn”t mine to tell.
To read what’s here is to open to the middle of a novel and read a single page. I know that the volunteers past and present who read [...]
