All Entries Tagged With: "Dhal Bhat Days"

Hands for Help - Final Thoughts

Dhal Bhat Days – vol13
9/15/08
While in Nepal I heard from my old students in India; they wished me a happy teacher day via email; it took me completely off guard, and shook me up a bit . It had been a year ago that I was there living in Delhi teaching my wonderful group of young [...]

Kathmandu – Second Time’s A Charm

Dhal Bhat Days – Vol 12
9/13/08
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After a refreshing, civilized stay in Pokhara for two nights, I arrived back in Kathmandu with a new outlook; it was no longer scary. I was reminded again of just how powerful time [...]

Kathmandu Photography

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I prefer window

Dhal Bhat Days – Vol 11
9/11/08
I thought I would be more excited about leaving Puma considering my living conditions for the last two weeks, but surprisingly, I wasn’t. In fact, it was a bittersweet. I was excited to get to some sort of civilization (yet I had started to question if civilization actually existed anywhere [...]

Do You Meat?

Dhal Bhat Days – vol. 9
9/9/08
During a break at school one afternoon, I noticed a big crowd in the village. I asked the children what was going on and they said “buffalo kill”. The village was slaughtering a buffalo and from my vantage point it looked like a lot of work as they were hacking [...]

School Days

Dhal Bhat Days – Vol. 8
9/8/08

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The whole reason I came to Nepal was to volunteer and teach. In some way I was trying to recapture my rewarding experience that I had in [...]

Barbot or Bust

Dhal Bhat Days Vol 7
9/5/08
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What the F have I done? Just when I was starting to settle in – I agreed to turn my little village world upside down again. I think [...]

At Last!

Today I taught the kids about body parts, and at recess I taught them hop scotch and we did a round of hokie pokie once I figure out what right and left was in Nepali. I personally think that the goofier I act the more the kids like me – they seem to get a [...]

Nepal Photography - Village Life

I thought I would give you all a break from the writing and present my photography from the villages I visted. This is the ‘best of’ the village photography.
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Saved By Youth

Dhal Bhat Days – Vol. 5
9/3/08
I hit a low today. I think it was due to many different things; but what affects me the most is not being able to have any type of conversation with anyone. I’m not simply sitting here silent – I am trying to form together a few words whenever I [...]