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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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Tornado (Sort of)
I went to Managua this morning and got back in the afternoon. As soon as I turned the corner to my house I knew that something was up. There was a pile of roof tiles out front and someone was … Continue reading
Posted in León, Philosophy, Vlog
Tagged blessing, Catholic, Catholocism, holy water, León, Nicaragua, priest, roof, roof damage, roof tiles, tornado, video blog, vlog, wind, wind storm, windy
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Macizo Peñas Blancas
After an overnight respite in Matagalpa last Saturday, Aaron and I headed further north to Macizo Peñas Blancas. Macizo means massif in Spanish. Peñas Blancas roughly translates to White Cliffs. I believe the national park is aptly named: The ridge of cliffs … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Photography, Travel
Tagged amphibians, Bear Hunt, bunk beds, camp, Camp Shohola, CEN, Center for Understanding of Nature, cicadas, cliffs, coffee, eco-lodge, frog, frogs, hiking, J.R.R.Tolkien, Jinotega, JRR Tolkien, leaf cutter ants, mammals, Matagalpa, Mirkwood, nature, outdoors, Penas Blancas, photo, photography, photos, pictures, reptiles, Shohola, snake, snakes, The Hobbit, wildlife
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Re-Opening the Rum Case
Back in May I wrote a brief ethical examination on Nicaraguan rum. The problem is that the workers in the sugar cane (sugar cane being the main ingredient in rum) fields are dying of kidney failure at very young ages. So … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Vlog
Tagged Chichigalpa, Chinandega, cycle of poverty, ethics, Flor de Cana, human rights, kidney, kidney disease, La Isla Foundation, labor, labor rights, León, Managua, morality, Nicaragua, Pellas, plantation, plantations, poverty, rights, rum, sub-contracting, sub-contractor, sugar cane, sugar cane workers, video blog, video log, visa
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Return on Investment
Return on Investment, or RoI, is one of those financial statistics that stock brokers throw around. I never really understood it, or at least, I never really invested the time to understand it. However, since working as a Volunteer, I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Peace Corps, Philosophy, Teaching
Tagged business advice, business advising, business advisory, camp, camps, finance, financial education, investment, planning, retreats, return on investment, RoI, stock broker, stock market, stock trading, stocks, teach training, teaching, youth camp, youth camps
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A Requiem for Matagalpa
This last week and a half I’ve felt like I’m back at my old job. Last Monday I pulled a round trip to Managua to work on a few talks I would be giving later in the week. On Tuesday I … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Travel, Vlog
Tagged airplane coach, breakfast, bus, bus ride, bus rides, business travel, cheese, coffee, coffee harvest, coffee picking, coffee plantation, contra, contras, corn, corn tortilla, corn tortillas, cuajada, entrepreneurship, food, fresco, gallo pinto, guirila, harvest, ice cream, Italian, Italian food, Jean Baudrillard, La Dalia, León, Managua, Matagalpa, on the road, pejibaye, pizza, plantation, President Reagan, Reagan, Ronal Reagan, terrorist, terrorists, tortilla, tortillas, Travel, visit, Work
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Nicaragua’s Vulnerability
Nicaragua is pretty much tied for being the second poorest country in the Americas. Haiti takes the crown, with Nicaragua and Bolivia right behind. And Nicaragua holds this unfortunate distinction in large part due to civil wars in the 70’s … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Vlog
Tagged blizzard, Bolivia, China, climate change, coffee, coffee rust, drought, earthquake, environment, fire, flood, global warming, greenhouse gas, Haiti, Haiyan, hurricane, India, Nicaragua, Republican, sea level, Tacloban, tornado, tsunami, volcano, Yolanda
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An Ethical Dilemma Involving Rum
Just north of my site, León, is the department of Chinandega (it gets even hotter than León in Chinandega – I have once heard it referred to as the devil’s anus, as opposed to León, which is just “the furnace”). In the … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Photography
Tagged Chichigalpa, Chinandega, Flor de Cana, Nicaragua, Pellas, ron, Ron Plata, rum, sugar cane
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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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Incidents of Travel 