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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Leaving Microsoft to Change the World
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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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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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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 …
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The Return to Kathmandu
41 days later in Nepal… After our long and unexpected good byes to our Nepali families, we began to make our way back to the Pacific Guest House in Kathmandu. The sun was starting to …
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My Village Stay – Day 1
On December 16th, the VSO Volunteer November ’08 group embarked on a 9-day Village Stay in Chankhu Besi thaau near Dhulikhel. As part of VSO’s In-Country-Training (ICT) programme, the 12 volunteers and their guru’s will …
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7 days later in Kathmandu
Yesterday marked the end of our first week in Kathmandu. I think the “honeymoon” stage is officially over and reality is starting to kick in. Nepali winter has finally grasped it’s hold throughout the valley …
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Day 2 in Nepal
It’s officially Day 2. It has only been 2 days and I have already endured a mammoth proportion of new experiences that I think my head is going to explode. Everything is fine of course but …
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Hitting the ground running
As soon as we arrived at Kathmandu International Airport, we had to fill out two forms before clearing immigration (a landing card and a visa application). For now, we had to get tourist visa ($40 USD) …
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Leaving, on a jetplane
…and heading EAST?!?! We didn’t see that coming. I figured since we were already on the west coast it would have made sense to fly through Hong Kong or Singapore. But we figured VSO may …