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Winter is Coming
Posted in Books, León
Tagged forecast, Game of Thrones, heat, hot, León, Ned Stark, Nicaragua, Starks, summer, weather, weather forecast, winter, Winter is Coming
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Blood of Brothers
When you are invited to serve in Peace Corps Nicaragua you get an electronic welcome packet. And somewhere in that welcome packet there is a recommendation to read Blood of Brothers by Stephen Kinzer, a tome on contemporary Nicaraguan history. I … Continue reading
Posted in Books, León, Pre-Service
Tagged Blood of Brothers, book talk, culture, history, León, New York Times, Nicaragua, NYT, opinion, Peace Corps Nicaragua, Stephen Kinzer, welcome packet
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Where’d I Go?
In a word, nowhere. It has been a few weeks since I last made a post on this blog (I’ve put up quite a few posts on my economics blog though). The reason for my blogging absence is nothing less … Continue reading
Posted in Books, León, Peace Corps, Training, Work
Tagged Academy Awards, Battle of Five Armies, Birdman, blizzard, blog, blogs, Boyhood, Cerro Negro, cooperative, Dissent, economics, El Hoyo, engineering, engineering school, entrepreneurship, finance, financial education, grammar, Granada, Grand Budapest Hotel, health, Jacobin, Las Pilas, León, LGB, LGBT, LGBTQ, LGBTQA, North Korea, Northeast, Oscars, Out in the Dark, rural tourism, Spanish, teacher training, teaching, Telica, The Academy Awards, The Atlantic, The Battle of Five Armies, The Economist, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Hobbit, The Interview, The New Yorker, The Oscars, tourism, university, volcano, volcanoes, Why Nations Fail
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Momotombo
Momotombo is basically the national symbol of Nicaragua. It is a perfectly shaped conical volcano on the banks of Lake Managua. It is the centerpiece of the national emblem of Nicaragua. I don’t know what inspirations Tolkien took for Mt. … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Music, Travel, Vlog
Tagged amateur photography, amateur photos, ash, flag, Grananda, hike, hiking, Lake Nicaragua, León, Lord of the Rings, LotR, Managua, Momotombito, Momotombo, music, national emblem, Nicaragua, photo, photography, picture, volcano, Walker, William Walker
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The “Pussification” of the Peace Corps
One of the first books that I read back in September after being invited to serve in the Peace Corps in Nicaragua was a book called, The Gringo: A Memoir. It tells the story of a recent Peace Corps Volunteer in Ecuador … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Peace Corps, Philosophy, Teaching, Training
Tagged camp, Camp Shohola, Communism, Cuerpo de Paz, Freire, gringo, Herbert Marcuse, Marcuse, Marxism, Nicaragua, One Dimensional Man, Paulo Freire, Peace Corps, pedagogy, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, pussification, Shohola, socialism, The Gringo, trainee, training, Uncle Larry, United States Peace Corps, US Peace Corps
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Game of Thrones
In December, as I was exiting EY and preparing for three months of traveling followed by 27 months in the Peace Corps, I downloaded to my tablet a bunch of tv shows, including Game of Thrones (GoT). I had never … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Pre-Service, Travel
Tagged A Game of Thrones, A Song of Ice and Fire, book, books, Brann, Game of Throne, George R.R. Martin, George RR Martin, GoT, GRRM, Jon Snow, Lannister, literature, reading, Stark, Westeros
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Incidents of Travel 