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Honouring Fridays: August 14th, 2009

Last night I awoke to the most spectacular rainstorm we have had yet.  It sounded like rivers streaming from the sky and drowned out any other sounds.  I laid still for about half and hour and just listened to the sound, carefully looking for a change in pace, water volume, or drop intensity.  Straining to [...]

Honouring Fridays: May 22nd, 2009

Let’s keep this short and snappy shall we?  Time has been creeping away from me lately and I find myself on a Friday afternoon facing into a weekend jam-packed with meetings, presentations, language refresher classes, and proposal reading and have just finished up a week that contained a 4-day volunteer conference with full to bursting [...]

Honouring Fridays: March 27th, 2009

I have spent the whole day today in a incredibly interesting consultation forum on the drafting of a new youth policy in Nepal.  Youth from all regions of the country were invited to review the draft policy and provide feedback, suggestions, and critques about how their voices were reflected in the policy.  Youth from many [...]

Nepali Cooking Class

The finale to our 10 week training has been an exciting foray into the world of Nepali cookery.  What was a classroom the day before, was transformed into a make-shift kitchen with the addition of a small table top stove and a large canister of gas.  The smells of cumin, red chilies, garlic, ginger, and [...]