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saltwater_dread
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 Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 1:11 am Post subject: Nepal |
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| Does anyone have information concerning the TESL market in Nepal? I have heard there are paying language schools in Kathmandu, but most ads I see are for volunteers. Is it possible to eke out a living there? |
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Dolma
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Location: Somewhere between samsara and nirvana
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| Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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Please let me know if you get any answers to your question - I am looking to go back there myself. I was there in June and saw a couple of notices in the KTM Post but I have heard the pay isn't enough to live on - maybe a few hundred NRs per month... 
You might be able to find jobs knocking on doors - it seemed there was a 'Computer/Language Institute' on every corner in KTM - you'd probably have to teach at several different places to survive. |
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been_there
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| Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 11:08 pm Post subject: |
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I lived in Kathmandu a few years ago, and you could probably hustle up enough business to live like a local, eating dahl bhat twice a day and no beer.
Maybe now that the king is gone the economy will pick up some, but Nepal is the poorest of the SE Asian countries, so it will be tough for you now. |
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Henry_Cowell
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| Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 3:10 am Post subject: |
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| been_there wrote: |
| ...Nepal is the poorest of the SE Asian countries.... |
It's generally classified among the South Asian countries rather than Southeast Asian. Each region is quite distinct. |
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Dolma
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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| been_there wrote: |
I lived in Kathmandu a few years ago, and you could probably hustle up enough business to live like a local, eating dahl bhat twice a day and no beer.
Maybe now that the king is gone the economy will pick up some, but Nepal is the poorest of the SE Asian countries, so it will be tough for you now. |
Oh, good ol' 20 rupee dal bhat...
I know it well... 
20 ?s time: What was your situation like in KTM? What was the political situation like then? Were you teaching? How long did you stay? I am looking for a way to go back - have visited twice, once in June '01 as a volunteer teacher(after the royal massacre) and this past summer to visit places I missed. I am looking to go back long-term but it looks like it's difficult to get a visa for longer than 2 - 5 months.
I was there for 3 weeks this past June and the general mood was relatively upbeat - ppl said there were not as many roadblocks and general hassles by the police/(R)NA as before April '06. At a bookstore in Thamel I picked up a book by a journalist doubting the official story behind the royal massacre - the clerk said it was banned before April. There were a lot more tourists(also touts and beggars) in KTM Durbar Square and Boudha than in '01, mostly Europeans. |
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been_there
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I was in the Peace Corps there back at the beginning of the millenium, teaching out in the middle of nowhere. I was there for 27 months.
THe visa situation was tough. I met a lot of people in Kdu that were had to do a visa run every few months, but I don't know much about that since mine was taken care of. They mostly went over the border to India (although I've been told that the Indian embassy in Kdu was a pit of inefficient red tape) or flew to Bangkok if they had the dosh.
My advice would be to hook up with an NGO and let THEM take care of the visa stuff. LOADS of NGO's in Nepal. |
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Dolma
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| Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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| been_there wrote: |
I was in the Peace Corps there back at the beginning of the millenium, teaching out in the middle of nowhere. I was there for 27 months.
THe visa situation was tough. I met a lot of people in Kdu that were had to do a visa run every few months, but I don't know much about that since mine was taken care of. They mostly went over the border to India (although I've been told that the Indian embassy in Kdu was a pit of inefficient red tape) or flew to Bangkok if they had the dosh.
My advice would be to hook up with an NGO and let THEM take care of the visa stuff. LOADS of NGO's in Nepal. |
Thanks for your advice - will check out the NGO opportunities. A Nepali friend of mine is even suggesting I should start my own - would have no idea how to do that... 
It will be interesting to see if the recent changes in government policy will have any effect on immigration rules.
So you must have been in the Peace Corps right before they stopped sending people to Nepal? Did you have any 'interesting' encounters with Maoists? |
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