Author: Amanda Bensel

Hello everyone! In the whirl wind of wrapping up projects, saying good byes and packing up my Nepali life I have found far too little time to write in the last couple months. Please accept my apologies for the silence! More posts will come soon, as I find the time to reflect during my transition…

Apparently nervous about sleeping in, I woke up in the darkness and groped through my mosquito net for my phone. 4:30AM. An hour before my wake-up time. A great many Nepali people actually get up at this hour, in the pitch-black darkness, every day. Why, when their offices don’t even open until 10AM? Some to…

Squeak.   The bus ground to a halt. We were only 90 minutes into our usual 8 hour ride and the heavy traffic appeared to be stalling us. “Holiday traffic?” my friend asked. We were traveling two days before Nepal’s most important family festival, Dashai. “No,” I replied,” holiday traffic slows things down but usually not…