Just a note to launch my new blog that will focus on my trip to Gorkha in Nepal in 2016. I took this photo on the first day I set foot in Gorkha District in 1969, on a trip with my friend Peter Cross. We were crossing the Marsyandi River in a dugout boat while walking from the west, headed toward a festival at Dudh Pokhari, high in the mountains of northern Gorkha. We never found Dudh Pokhari but now, by a twist of circumstance, I find myself in the same villages we travelled through on that walk 47 years ago.
I look forward to reading your blog Tim and I that we do someday meet again hopefully in Nepal. I am sorry I have not been in touch. Since arriving home there have been a coupe of family things and work of course which I must do to get me back to Nepal in January. My plan is to go back to Bhachek for a while or for my whole trip if Om can convince everyone to allow us to build more classrooms for Shree Bhachek. You know they had not intention of using the 2 classrooms we built!!! Om was there for a week and the class 1 and 2 students are finally in there. My long term goal is to get an environmental awareness program into all the primary schools in Nepal starting with Shree Bhachek. I am hoping to write this while I am there that way I can talk with the children and learn how to help them learn 🙂 Thank you Tim for all you do, such a pleasure to meet a gentle beautiful soul. I’ll d my best to keep in touch and please, any ideas you may have regarding the course will be always more than welcome!
All the best always for you and your family,
Your Bhaini, Cathy
Hi, Cathy – Great to hear from you. I’m so glad to hear that you plan to go back to Nepal in January. Your plan to develop an environmental curriculum for elementary schools is wonderful. It reminds me of when I worked in the Science Teaching Enrichment Program at the Ministry of Education in 1969-70. We wanted our curriculum to focus, not on memorization or some western-oriented laboratory approach to science, but instead on using local materials to help kids learn how to learn, how to use the scientific approach to figuring things out on their own. I think it would be exciting to work with kids in a school to get started on that process. I wish you best of luck in this venture and in all you do.
By the way, I recently did a Power Point presentation at a Unitarian church in Massachusetts about my trip to Nepal. Send me your email address and I will send it to you as an attachment. Lots of photos!
Email is probably the best way to stay in touch for me – I don’t often look at my blog site or see messages there. Facebook Messenger works well too.
Tim in Nepal 
Badhai xa sir…Congratulation……………
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I look forward to reading your blog Tim and I that we do someday meet again hopefully in Nepal. I am sorry I have not been in touch. Since arriving home there have been a coupe of family things and work of course which I must do to get me back to Nepal in January. My plan is to go back to Bhachek for a while or for my whole trip if Om can convince everyone to allow us to build more classrooms for Shree Bhachek. You know they had not intention of using the 2 classrooms we built!!! Om was there for a week and the class 1 and 2 students are finally in there. My long term goal is to get an environmental awareness program into all the primary schools in Nepal starting with Shree Bhachek. I am hoping to write this while I am there that way I can talk with the children and learn how to help them learn 🙂 Thank you Tim for all you do, such a pleasure to meet a gentle beautiful soul. I’ll d my best to keep in touch and please, any ideas you may have regarding the course will be always more than welcome!
All the best always for you and your family,
Your Bhaini, Cathy
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Hi, Cathy – Great to hear from you. I’m so glad to hear that you plan to go back to Nepal in January. Your plan to develop an environmental curriculum for elementary schools is wonderful. It reminds me of when I worked in the Science Teaching Enrichment Program at the Ministry of Education in 1969-70. We wanted our curriculum to focus, not on memorization or some western-oriented laboratory approach to science, but instead on using local materials to help kids learn how to learn, how to use the scientific approach to figuring things out on their own. I think it would be exciting to work with kids in a school to get started on that process. I wish you best of luck in this venture and in all you do.
By the way, I recently did a Power Point presentation at a Unitarian church in Massachusetts about my trip to Nepal. Send me your email address and I will send it to you as an attachment. Lots of photos!
Email is probably the best way to stay in touch for me – I don’t often look at my blog site or see messages there. Facebook Messenger works well too.
Let’s stay in touch –
Your Daju Tim
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