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 [...]
By Scott Wallick
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Posted in Birganj, Teacher Training, Teaching
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Also tagged Birganj, buses, Dhunche, East-West Highway, Fourth of July, Janakpur, Lang Tang, Nepalgunj, Twin Otter
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I finished up my last week at school by giving an exam. Something like a pop quiz, except it involved excessive and indiscreet cheating by the students.
What do you do when you’re in a classroom the size of a bedroom with 60 students sitting in benches at tables that even the strictest Puritan would deem [...]
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 [...]
