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Monthly Archives: June 2015
At a Crossroads
Every year the Peace Corps has a series of regional meetings on Safety & Security. The León/Chinandega meeting was last week while I was on Ometepe, so the Peace Corps kindly asked me to attend the meeting in Estelí. The meeting … Continue reading
Posted in Peace Corps, Travel
Tagged bucket list, crossroads, Esteli, goals, Jimmy Carter, Nicaragua, Peace Corps, service, Travel, volunteer
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Nicaraguan Folk Music
Five posts in five days. Here is the last one. It was a good and fun-filled-fun packed week. Over the last two months León (which I will never tire of lauding for its quality and frequent offerings of cultural events) … Continue reading
Posted in León, Third Goal
Tagged Carlos Mejia Godoy, concert, Ernest Cardenal, folk music, Katia Cardenal, León, Luis Enrique Mejia Godoy, Mejia Godoy, music
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Day Four: Tourism Business Development Workshop, Ometepe
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Tagged Charco Verde, Lake Nicaragua, Nicaragua, Ometepe, Ometepe Island, tourism, video, video blog, video journal, video log, vlog
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Day Three: Tourism Business Development Workshop, Ometepe
Everyone was a lot happier this morning than yesterday morning, since the electricity was running last night so the air conditioning and fans were keeping our rooms cool. The sessions in the morning were dedicated to accounting, and in the … Continue reading
Posted in Peace Corps, Teaching, Travel, Vlog
Tagged business administration, business owners, customer service, Ojo de Agua, Ometepe, pedagogy, teaching
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Day Two: Tourism Business Development Workshop, Ometepe
Day two of the workshop started a little rough. The power went out last night (a common occurrence on Ometepe) so our rooms had no air conditioning or fans. The rooms were very hot all night long. Ometepe is not … Continue reading
Posted in Work
Tagged agro-tourism, business development, business development workshop, business owners, Cerro Negro, community based tourism, community tourism, cooperative, Costa Rica, eco-tourism, gringo trail, guide book, literacy, Nicaragua, Ometepe, Peace Corps, petroglyph, petroglyphs, spiral, spirals, strategic planning, tourism
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Close Encounters of the Howler Monkey Kind
[Apologies for the lack of pictures and videos. The internet is very slow on the island and I don’t particularly want to be up past midnight tonight uploading files. I will add the photos and videos when I am back … Continue reading
Posted in Peace Corps, Travel, Vlog, Work
Tagged active volcano, Australia, business development, Cerro Negro, Close Encounters, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, cooperative, Daniel Ortega, experience, Game of Thrones, howler monkey, massage, massage therapy, monkey, Nicaragua, nispero, Ometepe, Ometepe Island, Peace Corps, Telica, The West Wing, tourism, tourism cooperative, tourism development, Travel, United States Peace Corps, US Peace Corps, volcanic explosion, volcanic island, volcano, West Wing, William Walker
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The Blogs of Others
Sometimes my friends just say it better than I can: 1 Year as a Peace Corps Volunteer By Thomas Playing. Learning. Coloring. Facilitating. Competing. Applying. Moving around. Sharing. Also by Thomas My new love: Bachata By Jessica Otavalo, Ecuador By … Continue reading
Machete-Wielding Hitchhikers on Active Volcanoes
My former-but-always-and-forever-in-the-cuadra-of-my-heart site-mate Isabel is traveling through South America at the moment, and reading her blog is bringing back excellent memories of my short time in Ecuador, studying abroad in the winter of 2009. In particular, Isabel was recently in … Continue reading
Posted in Incidents of Travel Past
Tagged active, active volcano, ATV, Banos, Delaware, Ecuador, hitchhike, hitchhiker, hitchhiking, Incidents of Travel Past, machete, off-road, off-roading, study abroad, UD, University of Delaware, volcano
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Prototype Day, 2015
Every Small Business Development Volunteer in Nicaragua shares one work activity in common: entrepreneurship education in high schools. In Senior year of the Nicaraguan equivalent of Home Economics class, the curriculum is based solely on entrepreneurship. However, many of the teachers … Continue reading
Posted in Peace Corps, Philosophy, Teaching, Work
Tagged business school, Christian, clapping, economics, El Salvador, Evangelical, Evangelical Christian, exchange rate, intermediate product, intermediate products, manufacturing, marketing, milkshakes, Nicaragua, Peace Corps, Peace Corps Nicaragua, plantains, presentations, production, products, prototype, smoothies, tamales, teen pregnancy, teenage pregnancy, university, US Peace Corps, value added, value-added chain, value-added production
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Rural Business Advising
On three occasions now, while talking about financial goals, savings, and loans, I have had participants draw their financial goals. I thought of the activity because I have been working with two cooperatives whose members have low education levels and … Continue reading
Posted in Peace Corps, Teaching, Work
Tagged beach, business advising, business training, community tourism, cooperative, cooperatives, dreams, education, financial goals, fishing, goals, León, ocean, Poneloya, poverty, rural, rural education, rural tourism, Telica, Telica Volcano, tourism, transportation, Volcan Telica, volcano
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Incidents of Travel 