Time for some updates from the short stories. I’ll hope you find them as enjoyable as I do. First, the notorious sunglasses dog: I hope you remember the thrilling tale of the street dog that snatched my sunglasses out of my hands, chewed on them for a few hours, then finally left them in front […]
Two years ago today, Nepal suffered an incredibly devastating earthquake. I hope you are aware of that. What you may not know is that the experts believe Nepal is in store for another strong earthquake. They apparently have no way of predicting when it will happen, but you can read a bit about it here […]
Cooking At the Fulbright offices, we’re spoiled with a chef that cooks the most amazing food. He’s an amazing, funny man. His late wife was the previous chef, but she tragically passed away in the earthquake. A friend and I asked for the opportunity to observe our chef as he prepared our lunch one day. […]
World Water Day. I didn’t even know we had such a day. Did you know 6000 kids die a day due to a lack of water and the poor sanitation that follows? (source). That’s a staggering number to me. My village has giant billboards at the school, market, and health post talking about the importance of […]
I completed my first on-the-job trek. It was pretty incredible. Our first night, it was thundering (fun fact: that’s pronounced “gar-dung gar-dune gar-nu” in Nepali) and we had difficulty find a room, because all of the places my colleagues remembered had fallen down in the earthquake. It was actually quite sobering; we stood in the […]