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Bhawana Shrestha
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Jan 2

To Fall in Love (with you…)

I had always wanted to fall in love. To fall in love with self, and ironically to deeply be in love with someone other than self too. To fall in love with the other being with whom I could just be there, listen to for hours, laugh at some random…

Love

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To Fall in Love (with you…)
To Fall in Love (with you…)
Love

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Nov 11, 2022

What is it that I am not sharing?

With beautiful mushy clouds, clear sky, and well-managed traffic DC have a lot to offer in terms of city management. At least for someone like me who lives in Kathmandu. Well-furnished rooms, huge libraries, most expensive articles- you just hit a button and ask someone in a library to make…

Fellowship

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What is it that I am not sharing?
What is it that I am not sharing?
Fellowship

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Oct 31, 2022

Rolling-In (Reflection Series #16 and #17)

The last few weeks have gone extremely crazy from visiting the White House Garden to presenting my research paper at Virginia Tech University. Since life has been moving from one event to the other, I haven’t actually been able to sit back, reflect, and then process. There’s another feeling of…

Echidna Global Scholar

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Rolling-In (Reflection Series #16 and #17)
Rolling-In (Reflection Series #16 and #17)
Echidna Global Scholar

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Oct 11, 2022

My Identity is not limited to my Husband’s (Reflection Series #15)

8:30 am Monday (October 10, 2022) Living away from your family after getting married is a different kind of hustle. This is something that I get to be made aware of on multiple occasions one way or the other. As someone who had been living her independent life for the…

Identity

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My Identity is not limited to my Husband’s (Reflection Series #15)
My Identity is not limited to my Husband’s (Reflection Series #15)
Identity

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Oct 5, 2022

LISTEN before FITTING them IN (Reflection Series #14)

8:30 am Wednesday(October 5, 2022) It is a unique experience to be a teacher from one part of the globe (that can only be noticed by mindfully pointing out that dot on the globe) and sitting in a room or a virtual group that keeps on highlighting the significance of…

Teachers

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LISTEN before FITTING them IN (Reflection Series #14)
LISTEN before FITTING them IN (Reflection Series #14)
Teachers

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Oct 4, 2022

Feminist Nepali श्रीमती (Wife) Tales: (Episode 3: This emotion shame! Oh! Sorry ‘SEX’!)

Let me talk a little bit about this emotion of shame! Oh! Sorry ‘SEX’! Over the last couple of years, I have been targeted multiple times for how openly I talk about sex. As a South Asian woman, that too a Nepali married woman, sex should be something that I…

Sex

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Feminist Nepali श्रीमती (Wife) Tales: (Episode 3: This emotion shame! Oh! Sorry ‘SEX’!)
Feminist Nepali श्रीमती (Wife) Tales: (Episode 3: This emotion shame! Oh! Sorry ‘SEX’!)
Sex

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Sep 28, 2022

14 First Experiences in 14 Days (Fellowship Reflection Series #12 and #13)

14 First Experiences in 14 Days (Fellowship Reflection Series #12 and #13) 8:30 am Wednesday(September 28, 2022) Coming back to this desk feels different, a little more exciting since Anthony is also back from Kenya. In these two weeks, a lot of things happened one after another and I needed…

First Experience

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14 First Experiences in 14 Days (Fellowship Reflection Series #12 and #13)
14 First Experiences in 14 Days (Fellowship Reflection Series #12 and #13)
First Experience

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Sep 12, 2022

Getting Out of the Comfort Zone (Fellowship Reflection Series #11)

12:10 am Monday (September 12, 2022) Having been living for the last 13 years independently, I don’t usually hesitate to go to a new place and explore and even live in solitude. Also, from making solo trips to several cities and countries to traveling with my husband, mostly apart from…

Echidna Global Scholar

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Getting Out of the Comfort Zone (Fellowship Reflection Series #11)
Getting Out of the Comfort Zone (Fellowship Reflection Series #11)
Echidna Global Scholar

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Sep 7, 2022

Settling In (Fellowship Reflection Series #10)

7:24 am Wednesday (September 7, 2022) After two weeks, here in DC, I am gradually settling in. Few things that I have been able to notice and take away from in the last two weeks: Intellectual Humility- Almost all the colleagues at the Center for Education are Doctors of Education…

Echidna Global Scholar

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Settling In (Fellowship Reflection Series #10)
Settling In (Fellowship Reflection Series #10)
Echidna Global Scholar

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Aug 27, 2022

Adventure, Found (Fellowship Reflection Series #9)

8:37 am Saturday (August 27, 2022) The lush green trees of Dupont Circle are just in front of me. The park is beautiful. It reminds me of a clean and small version of the UN park of Kathmandu. Two complete days in Washington DC have passed and I feel that…

Echidna Global Scholar

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Adventure, Found (Fellowship Reflection Series #9)
Adventure, Found (Fellowship Reflection Series #9)
Echidna Global Scholar

5 min read

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Bhawana Shrestha

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