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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
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Tagged business administration, business owners, customer service, Ojo de Agua, Ometepe, pedagogy, teaching
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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
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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
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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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Frustration Rant
Having just published a post I ended by writing, “I could go on and keep talking about the minutiae of the school system here, but I see myself drifting into a frustration rant, so I think I will leave it … Continue reading
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Tagged behavioral interchange, camp, Camp Shohola, cell phone, cell phones, circus, clown, concentration, conductor, convention, cynicism, discipline, earthquake, earthquake drill, Einstein, fire, fire drill, ignorance, insanity, lesson plan, lesson planning, lesson plans, phone, phones, post-revolutionary society, revolution, right to education, rope, school, Shohola, tent, The Game, tug-of-war
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The Nicaraguan School System
You wouldn’t think that a Small Business Development Peace Corps Volunteer would spend much time in high schools, but in fact I spend at least 50% of my time in schools. Entrepreneurship is an official part of the high school … Continue reading
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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Mejora tu Vida! – The Video Series
I found all of the cartoons that I use for Mejora tu Vida! on YouTube. If you speak Spanish, for your amusement/benefit:
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Tagged animation, cartoon, financial education, financial literacy, movie, video, YouTube
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Mejora tu Vida!
I got back from Florida at 2 AM this morning. I’ll be back in León tonight. My trip went well despite the circumstances, but I am very happy to get “home” to León and back into the swing of things. … Continue reading
Posted in Peace Corps, Teaching
Tagged bank, community bank, financial education, financial security, flight, Florida, health, health promotion, interest, LGB, LGBT, LGBTIA, LGBTIAQ, LGBTQ, NGO, Peace Corps, teaching, trip, United States Peace Corps, US Peace Corps
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National Entrepreneurship Congress and Competition
Last Wednesday through Friday was the National Entrepreneurship Congress and Competition, which is the culmination of a year of work for Small Business Development Volunteers, teachers, and students all around Nicaragua. I didn’t have a team competing. My students had … Continue reading
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Tagged camp, Camp Shohola, conference center, electric keyboard, entrepreneur, entrepreneurial spirit, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship competition, Entrepreneurship Congress, Esteli, hotel, hotel and conference center, keyboard, Managua, motivated, motivation, music pedal, networking, Nicaragua, pedal, Shohola, Spanish, tea
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Incidents of Travel 