Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.Sample Book Insights: #1 I was excited to go to Nepal and help the children, but I was also excited to travel around the world for a year. I had spent the previous eight years working for the EastWest Institute, an international public policy think tank, out of their Prague office, and was bored.#2 I had decided to travel to Nepal, and I was excited about it. But I was also nervous. I had heard from my friends that it was a self-indulgent decision, and that I would catch flak for it. But I had a response ready if anyone disapproved: I would say that I didn’t expect them to hate orphans.#3 The volunteer program began with an orientation held at the office of the nonprofit organization CERV Nepal. The presenter spoke in detail about Nepalese culture and history, but the entire group was transfixed when he mentioned the word toilet.#4 I was assigned to a concrete yellow house in Bistachhap, which looked pretty snazzy next to the mud ones. I had my own bedroom, a simple affair with a single bed on a mattress of straw and a swatch of handmade carpet spread out on the floor.