Announcing: My New Blog

WordPress has been very uncooperative as I’ve tried to update this blog from Nepal. The internet here isn’t super slow, but it seems to have great difficulty with some of the applets employed by WordPress.

Thus, my new blog address: www.chaseinnepal.blogspot.com.

All of my updates will now go directly to that blog.  See you on the other side!

-Chase

A Quick Turnaround

For the past six months I’ve been preparing myself for an 11-month placement as a Photographer/Storyteller in Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh.

Some complications arose.

For the past three days I’ve been preparing myself for a placement as a Peace Program Assistant with the Rural Institute for Community Development (RICOD) in Chapagaon, Nepal, 13 km outside of Kathmandu.

I’m leaving tomorrow, and will be flying from Pennsylvania to California to Thailand to Nepal. This blog will be my main form of communication to friends and family at home though email will certainly be an option as well.

After spending a week in Akron, Pennsylvania doing orientation activities, and feeling some uncertainty in the face of rapid changes in plans, I am feeling ready to be stuck on a plane where all I can do is read and sleep (and play Gameboy:)

This week I’ve been consciously trying to reinforce the idea expressed in the title of a book by Thich Nhat Hanh: “Peace is Every Step”

With every interaction, I try to remind myself that the more peaceful interactions I have, the more peace there is.

Peace is every step.