Links:
Photos
from 1971 - 72
Thoughts and Pictures when I
returned in 2007
More Thoughts and Pictures,
when I returned again in 2011
Blog
I wrote during my return in 2014
Further Reflections (pending) |
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Yaku
I lived near the High School, the cluster of buildings in
the center of the picture, for a year during 1971 and 72,
teaching arithmetic and science. I arrived in
January of 1971 and taught until summer vacation when I
hiked into Kathmandu where I spent the summer. The
following fall I took 6 weeks off to help climb a
mountain near Annapurna. I taught again from
December until June of 1992 when I again went to
Kathmandu for the summer. When I returned after summer
vacation I decided that staying the last three months of
my Peace Corps tour would accomplish little, and being
homesick, I went home, which was a mistake. When I
returned, unannounced, 37 years later I was welcomed as
the prodigal son. I have been helping the school get
computers and internet since and correspond with friends
in Nepal a couple times a week by email and Skype. |
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