NEPAL | Sunday, 13 Apr 2008 | Views [1288] | Comments [3]
There was plenty to keep me amused in Gumda, despite the lack of electricity and English speakers. I taught in the school six days a week and usually did some unofficial lessons too. I spent a lot of time drinking tea and holding odd conversations in ... Read more >
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NEPAL | Saturday, 29 Mar 2008 | Views [2309] | Comments [4]
The school was a modest building and only exists at all because of the kind donations of a French business. Sometimes the French people send them letters, which the teachers carefully file away because they're always written in French and no one can ... Read more >
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NEPAL | Monday, 24 Mar 2008 | Views [3713] | Comments [4]
The first full day in Gumda was a busy one and, after digging the toilet, our next task was to go to the school. We met the teachers - except the english teacher who was elsewhere - and the principle and they'd arranged a little welcome ceremony for ... Read more >
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NEPAL | Thursday, 20 Mar 2008 | Views [1163]
We made it to the outskirts of the village by late afternoon and stopped to rest on the terraces. Mountains - or indeed foothills - aren't naturally particularly useful for farming, so over the generations the people have turned whole mountainsides into ... Read more >
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