Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey into Bhutan
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| Rating | : | 4.88 (959 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 157322118X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 393 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-31 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Memoir of a Canadian teacher's experience in Bhutan" according to Magalini Sabina. Memoir of a Canadian Teacher in BhutanJamie Zeppa, an English teacher from Canada, in 1999 wrote of her life experience in Bhutan from 1989 to 1992. With the World University Service of Canada (WUSC) financed overseas education program in Bhutan, the slightly over 20 year old teacher changed her whole life to take a chance at living in a completely different part of the world. Practically without knowledge of the culture she was going to impact and loads of useless baggage she transferred to this tiny Himalayan kingdom convinced of reaching the Shangrila. The cultur. Picky, picky, picky said A highly recommended read for the adventurer in all of us. I was surprised that I fell in love with this book so quickly. Zeppa is a strong storyteller who takes you along on her exciting (although unconventional) journey to Butan. Her narrative is strong and her experiences left me wanting to know even more. It was a joy to read from beginning to end.. The process of falling in love Ana First you look around hesitantly, noticing only the differences. Then you begin to see the similarities, until finally you feel a deep connection and find that you have arrived at your spiritual home.Jamie Zeppa has described this process of falling in love with another land and culture in depth and with such tenderness that I felt grateful to see in words what I have experienced myself.Her writing is beautiful, and she illuminates the place and people lovingly and with vivid details. Her very own personal love story with the man she met there doesn't get in the way
In the tradition of Iron and Silk and Bicycle Days, comes the story of a young woman's self-discovery in a foreign land. Jamie Zeppa went to Bhutan as a teacher on a two-year Canadian government contract. From the pristine, heart-crushing beauty of the landscape to the celebrations and sorrows of its people, Zeppa conjures and captures the true spirit of her unforgettable pilgrim experience. At the age of twenty-two, Jamie Zeppa, raised in a small Canadian town by her grandparents, engaged to be married, never having left the North American continent, decided to embark on one great adventure before settling down for a happy, if conventional, life. During her early weeks of hardship and disorientation, this neophyte traveler was on the verge of packing it in. In time, she broke off her engagement. Stirring, poignant, funny, and full of joy, Beyond the Earth and the Sky is at once a classic tale of discovery and adventure, and a love story--between a woman and a country, a people, a man.. After two years, she was not onl
Alongside her burgeoning enchantment, a parallel realization that all was not right in Shangri-La arose, especially after her transfer to a college campus charged with the politics of ethnic division. When the time came for her to leave, she had undergone a personal transformation and found herself caught between two worlds that were incompatible and mutually incomprehensible. An innocent, young Catholic woman from a Canadian mining town who had "never been anywhere," Zeppa signed up for a two-year stint teaching in a remote corner of the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan. As a teacher of English literature, Jamie Zeppa would understand how the story of her journey into Bhutan could be fit into the convenient box of "coming-of-age romance," a romance with a landscape, a people, a religion, and a dark, irresistible student. Still she maintained her center by devouring the libr