Summer of 2012, considering returning to Nepal for good to work in the education of children from low socioeconomic background, I visited about ten government and community school in and around Pokhara, and accompanied my good buddy Jayjeev, COMMITTED's Executive Director, on a trip to Thangpalkot. This is a video, Jayjeev made, of that trip.
I keep a list...a long list...and this is it!
When a 600-km distance requires 25 hours, it can't be anything but an adventure.
After spending pretty much all my adult life abroad, my return to Nepal has been accompanied by a number of changes to my daily routine, amongst a slew of other changes!
You know you have lived abroad for too long when... you have spent more time abroad than in your own home country. you have acquired a foreign accent. you have lost the fluency you once had in your two mother tongues (Nepali and Seke, referred to as a dialect in the Wikipedia entry) and have…