April 24, 2006
Kathmandu: Nepali Crisis
It is strange to be completely out of touch with the world (as I have been for the last week while I was trekking in the Pyrenees) and come back to the news that Nepal is in the international spotlight....Read this update
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April 11, 2006
Godawari: The Results Are In...
I’m back in Europe – Brussels, to be exact. I have about three weeks to visit friends and family in London, Brussels, the south of France, and Prague, and I am pretty thrilled about it: the more I talk about...Read this update
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April 02, 2006
Annapurna Sanctuary: Photos
Somehow it turns out that I'm leaving Godawari on Tuesday, and catching a flight out of Nepal on Wednesday. Not sure how three months slipped past already. But let me say first that I'll still be writing about Nepal for...Read this update
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March 29, 2006
Annapurna Sanctuary: Mountain Dudes
I’m back! I’ve trekked. I am unhurt, also unshaven. I couldn’t be bothered to shave, frankly, way up there in the mountains. Thus: I have a beard! My good friend and trekking companion Rachel confirmed this every day, just for...Read this update
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March 09, 2006
Nepal: Wee Little Tales
It is an important week here at the orphanage – the kids are taking their final exams. They go to school, take one exam, come home, study. That’s the regiment. Sunday is their last exam, then they have thirty five...Read this update
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March 07, 2006
Kathmandu: Spidermen (w/ photos)
Sunday is normally a working day in Nepal – businesses are open, kids go to school. Two weeks ago was an exception – it was the Queen’s birthday. The King, to his credit, understood that it would be difficult to...Read this update
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March 01, 2006
Children's Paradise School: Show and Tell
Last Friday was a very special day, for two reasons. First of all, it was the day that Farid and I went to school with the kids. We were all excited about that – the kids were dying to show...Read this update
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February 21, 2006
Nepal: Divided Country
Before I talk about the unfortunate political and security situation in Nepal, I would ask you to keep in mind that just last week the Vice President of the United States took an old man out to the woods and...Read this update
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February 15, 2006
Godawari: Photos, Part II
I take a fair amount of photos here – it is too hard not to; besides, I have the only digital camera. I’ll just post some random ones here from the first month. Soon enough I’ll be posting more –...Read this update
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February 11, 2006
Godawari: Saturday
I was planning on writing about the political and security situation in Nepal for this entry. In Nepal, politics and security are one and the same; I suppose they always are in a civil war. I have today’s paper in...Read this update
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February 07, 2006
Godawari: Possessive
Dharma has a watch. I don’t know if he bought it himself or it was given to him – it looks pretty beat up. It’s a digital watch, and above the time, where most watches would give, say, the date,...Read this update
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February 03, 2006
Godawari: Moral Authority
Ramraj stopped me on the stairs the other day. I was walking up the stairs, he was coming down – we were at eye-level with each other. He was holding a book, open to the last page. “Conor Brother why...Read this update
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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...Read this update
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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....Read this update
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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...Read this update
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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...Read this update
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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...Read this update
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