{"id":4190,"date":"2014-11-14T22:00:31","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T16:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/?p=4190"},"modified":"2021-08-16T10:42:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T04:57:37","slug":"my-very-first-visit-to-thangpalkot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/my-very-first-visit-to-thangpalkot\/","title":{"rendered":"My Very First Visit to Thangpalkot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The summer of 2012, really disappointed with my teaching experience<\/a> at Qatar Academy and in line with what I had always planned of doing, I had been contemplating returning home for good to work with children from low socio-economic backgrounds<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would have been four years at the end of 2013 academic year since my good friends–the Prices–and I had talked about my return home, sitting in a small lodge in Mustang drinking Mustang “Coffee”. We had decided then that I should give myself only five more years before I returned because, without such a deadline, we figured, I would most likely continue with my international teaching career. And so, returning even before the five years was up seemed just as good a time as any.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to my disappointment with my teaching experience in Qatar, there were other pull factors at work too, such as the new addition to our family: my little nephew!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So that summer, I visited about ten government and community school in and around Pokhara, including Bal Jyoti Primary School and Vindhya Basini Secondary School, the two government schools I had attended<\/a> before moving to St. Xavier’s Godavari.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, I also accompanied my good buddy Jayjeev<\/a>, COMMITTED<\/a>‘s Executive Director, on a trip to Thangpalkot. The following video Jayjeev made is about that trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n