Samuel Osborn
2018
Kathmandu, Nepal
Teaching English in Nepal
Samuel Osborn (2018: Kathmandu, Nepal) will work with Projects Abroad to rebuild infrastructure and support children after the 2015 earthquake destroyed schools and reduced safe learning spaces. As part of a construction team, he will lay foundations for new schools. He will also provide care for children ages 1–20 in Kathmandu and Chitwan, teaching personal hygiene, improving literacy, instructing English, and leading physical activities.
My name is Sam Osborn and I was established in 1994 in Grapevine, Texas.
I’ve been digging in the dirt and embarking on adventures since I could walk, and my love for creative outlets including music, painting, and creative writing have not ceased since the early 90’s.
I graduated from Belmont University in May 2017 with a B.B.A. double major in Entrepreneurship and Music Business, and I could not be more excited to live and work in Nepal.
I am always learning and always researching things I am not familiar with—and although it is sometimes comfortable to sit around and watch TV or read a book in silence—I would much rather always be placing myself outside my comfort zone.
More about me....
Home Town: Grapevine, TX
Major(s): Entrepreneurship & Music Business
Country Highlights
My Stories
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Week Fourteen Through Sixteen | हफ्ते चौधौं सोह्रौं
Halfway through my fourteenth week in Nepal, we finished our work tying together the sidewalks, topping off the brick walls of the classrooms,
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Week Twelve and Thirteen | हप्ता बाह्र र तेरह
Week twelve marked the normalizing of a refreshing new routine of waking up at 5:30 or 6:00am, making a few cups of coffee
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Week Ten and Eleven | हप्ता दस र ग्यारह | (Hapta dasa ra gyaraha)
Then passed the first two weeks of my construction project in a blink of an eye. The next 9 weeks proved to be
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Week Nine | हप्ता नौ | (Hapta Nau)
Twelve hundred rupees handed over to the bus employee secured my turbulent 6 hour ride to Pokhara. The 200 kilometers, or about 120
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Week Seven and Eight | हप्ता सात र आठ
Sometimes, when you fail to look behind you and fix your eyes on where your feet are stepping, weeks, months, or even
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Week Six | हप्ता छ
The sixth sense. I saw dead people. No, really. Lining the banks of the river that flows through the acres of Pashupatinath,
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Week Five | हप्ता पाँच
It was now almost March. The weather began to improve, in that during the daytime it leveled out and during the night I
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Week Four | हप्ता चार
The Placement Week number four at Sunrise English Boarding School began to feel like another home in itself. There are certain love-hate psychological
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Week Three | हप्ता तीन
The Placement By week three, I had finally been placed in some different grade levels instead of teaching the upper kindergarten level after
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Topic: Himalayan Grace Coffee Shop | हिमालयन ग्रेस कफी
“O come, all ye faithful, come let us adore him…silver bells, silver bells…O, holy night…” Every time I sit down to write a
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Week Two | दुई हप्ता
The Placement During week two of my stay, along came picture day at Sunrise. All buttoned up and ready to smile, the little
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Topic: Kathmandu Traffic | यातायात
This is what it sounds like. Feel free to listen as you read this short description of—you guessed it—Kathmandu traffic. Parked About 10%
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Week One || पहिलो हप्ता
Arrival. Airport. Visa. Baggage claim. Sim card booth. Someone waving a sign with my name on it. A dusty dark midnight Thursday ride
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Nepal: Preparations
It’s the 5th day of the new year and 12 days until I step on the plane to Kathmandu. I’m taking some time
