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January 31, 2006

Godawari: Photos, Part I

I thought it might be high time to include a few pictures here, just in case you missed last year’s Nepal stuff and were wondering what in the sam hell I’m going on about all the time. Apologies if some...

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Posted by Conor on January 31, 2006 12:27 PM
Category: Nepal 2006

January 27, 2006

Godawari: Toys

My friends are starting to have kids. I know: I’ve seen them. One of them is named Connor. Another one I saw when he was only thirty-six hours old, still trying to work out what the crap was going on....

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Posted by Conor on January 27, 2006 07:14 AM
Category: Nepal 2006

January 22, 2006

Godawari: Jaws

There was a chicken in the kitchen of the orphanage today. That was weird, because we don’t have a chicken. There is a lesson here: anytime I find myself getting comfortable and forgetting where I am, something will come along...

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Posted by Conor on January 22, 2006 10:57 AM
Category: Nepal 2006

January 19, 2006

Godawari: Festivus

My first full day back in Godawari was apparently some kind of Hindu festival, though nobody seemed to know exactly which one. I’m not even sure anybody in the orphanage is actually Hindu. But per tradition, we still had to...

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Posted by Conor on January 19, 2006 12:10 PM
Category: Nepal 2006

January 16, 2006

Godawari: Welcome Back to the Orphanage

It was the afternoon of Friday the 13th when I walked the small path down to the orphanage, backpack on my back. It was a funny feeling to be back here – like I was just here last week. I...

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Posted by Conor on January 16, 2006 10:11 AM
Category: Nepal 2006

January 12, 2006

London: In the Interim

Doha is the capital of Qatar. I never would have known that had I not actually landed in the city itself on my way to Nepal. It was just before sunrise on January 11th when we made our descent, high...

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Posted by Conor on January 12, 2006 02:39 AM
Category: United Kingdom

January 08, 2006

London: Eighteen Resolutions

I once heard part of a book on CD called something along the lines of "The Power of Now." The man, in a voice that sounds like he's gently sinking into a kind of Prozac-induced coma, speaks about how the...

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Posted by Conor on January 8, 2006 07:03 PM
Category: United Kingdom
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