Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-ACC-2016-039
Nancy Baughman Csuti served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Nepal from September 1979 to December 1981. She completed CAST training (Center for Assessment and Training) for four or five days in the United States, then spent one week in Kathmandu prior to her teacher training in Pokhara. Csuti was placed in the village of Paklihawa, in the Terai plains region of Nepal, where she worked as a TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) teacher for students in Grades 3, 4, and 5. She speaks of her life in the village, teaching her students, how primitive Katmandu was at that time, the Gurkha soldiers, the caste system in Nepal, and the menstrual sheds used by women in the village. 2 digital audio files (web streaming files combined into 1 file). Interviewed and recorded by Barbara Kaare-Lopez, May 12, 2016.