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Added At:  2012-05-08 9:13 AM

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SCOTT WALLICK

I remember where I was last Tihar, a year ago. A year ago? A year ago I’d gone to Kathmandu to hang out at the Spice deraa, my old co-owned flat in Kathmandu, with some of the folks there...but a year ago I was living in a different house in Birganj and I had another flat in Kathmandu...This year I was staying in Birganj...and I was half looking forward to settling back into a rut in Birganj after not having been here continually for very long...I had been feeling somewhat lost of late. Like not sure where I was going with work or whether or not I was actually welcome in Nepal. Just before Tihar the Maoists had sent a notice to the newspapers and government that it was making steps to change its policies....Even during training when we could hear the crackle of gunfire in the distance as we ate daal bhaat we knew that we were safe...Even when the Maoists...came and burned down a trainee’s neighbor’s house by cover of darkness, we felt safe. But this is different. This could be personal.—peace-corps.scottwallick.com

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