Project update: Thanks to everyone who has supported our little project. We finally delivered our books and now Gord and I are thinking about our next project. We’ll keep you posted. Original post below… (I …
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Learning the Nepali Language
It’s “only” been a little over 4 months, but of course it feels like ages since we left home. Both the shreemati and I are pretty much settled and adjusted to the Nepali culture, lifestyle, …
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Leaving Microsoft to Change the World
Coincidently, I finished reading this book in the country where it all started. Leaving Microsoft to Change the World by John Wood is essentially about the author’s personal experiences in his initial quest to help …
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The Drive to (and from) Hetauda
Almost 6 and half hours later, in a crammed 4×4 toyota, a foreign metal object poking at my back while by butt froze numb, we finally made it to our meeting place Bastipur, in Hetauda. …
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Basic Operating Guidelines agreed to by Undersigned Agencies in Nepal
I thought this was really noteworthy to post up and to remind ourselves why and how we should act while we are here. Based on principles agreed internationally and in Nepal, we the undersigned have …
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Hetauda Bound
It’s last minute, but I am Hetauda bound for 5 – 6 days to meet my counter-part’s field office staff. I am really looking forward to a change of scenery.
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Looking Back
After many, many attempts via slow computer networks and even dial-up Internet accoess (yes, Internet dial-up using 28.8 kbps is still a reality here), I have successfully uploaded a 25-minute video of our time here …
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Finally, Our Dhera
Aside from posting a back log of blog posts, current posts have been rare these days since we have mainly been focusing our efforts on finding a dhera to live in. Dhera’s are residential places …
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Support Update
As we have mentioned before, we have been fundraising on behalf of CUSO-VSO Canada in order to help offset the costs of supporting us and our work while overseas. As of this post (and to …
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The First Week
We just completed our first week of work. In-country-training ended for us last week us and while the out-of-valley volunteers shipped out to their placements this week, most of the Kathmandu valley volunteers started work …