I chose to take last semester off from grad school because I went to Nepal for my summer internship and decided to stay and support/experience the Constitutional Assembly elections planned for November. Unfortunately, they were postponed, no one was sure if they would actually happen, and the time came for me to return home. Finally, a new date was set for April 10th, and as that date approached, it looked like the election might actually happen. I, along with the entire country and a large part of the international community held my breath that it would be a peaceful and...