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Practicum Week
Around this time last year I was sent north to Jinotega for a Volunteer Visit with then Small Business Development Volunteer Hannah (she is now a Returned PC Volunteer in the US, meaning she completed her two years of service). … Continue reading
Posted in León, Peace Corps, Training
Tagged beach, black clams, business advisory, business training, ceviche, Chinandega, clam, clams, cooperative, education, fish, fish market, fish processing, fried fish, Jinotega, León, lesson plan, lesson planning, lesson plans, mangroves, Nicaragua, ocean, Peace Corps, Small Business Development Volunteers, teacher training, teaching, training, US Peace Corps, wetlands
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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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Nagarote
Nagarote is a town halfway in between León and Managua. It is on the far side of Lake Managua (with Managua being on the near side). I went there today with my soon to depart site-mate, Chelsea, who used to … Continue reading
Posted in Training
Tagged Bible, botanical gardens, central park, cheese, church, clean, earthquake, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship competition, lake, Lake Managua, lookout, Managua, mirador, Momotombo, Nagarote, overlook, park, quesillo, school, Telica, Volcan Telica, volcanic chain, volcano, volcanoes, volcanos
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A Menagerie of Videos From Training
I haven’t been able to get these videos from training up till now, but they sure are good. Presenting Daniel Ortega, President of the Republic, Malú, a particularly exuberant puppy, and Luis Mariano, simultaneously dancing and pummeling a piñata at his … Continue reading
Posted in Peace Corps, Training
Tagged Cuerpo de Paz, dance, dancing, Daniel Ortega, dog, Nicaragua, Niquinohomo, Ortega, Peace Corps, pinata, puppy, San Juan de Oriente, training, US Peace Corps
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Jurementación
Although I’ve been in Nicaragua for nearly three months, I wasn’t actually a Volunteer until last Friday morning. During the first 11 weeks in country, when you are in training, you are considered a Trainee, not a Volunteer. To become … Continue reading
Posted in Peace Corps, Training
Tagged Cuerpo de Paz, diplomat, embassy, Foreign Service, Jurementación, León, Managua, Nicaragua, oath, oath of office, Peace Corps, swearing in, United States of America, US, US Peace Corps, USA
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1st Place!
Today was the small business competition for training, and my group got first place! There were six teams and our jelly brought home the gold for San Juan de Oriente. The competition was stiff too. The other products were: Natural … Continue reading
Posted in Peace Corps, Training
Tagged business, competition, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, jalea, jelly, kids, Nicaragua, PB & J, PB&J, peanut butter, peanut butter and jelly, Spanish, youth
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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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These Just Showed Up At My House
Posted in Peace Corps, Training
Tagged aguacate, aguacates, avocado, avocadoes, Cuerpo de Paz, Nicaragua, Peace Corps, United States Peace Corps, US Peace Corps
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León, León
This last week I visited my permanent site of León, León. It was very very hot. The second hottest place in Nicaragua, in fact. Like sitting in place, not moving a muscle, yet still sweating so much your shirt is … Continue reading
Posted in León, Peace Corps, Teaching, Training
Tagged AIDS, canal, Captain Morgan, Caribbean, cathedral, church, churches, complain, Cuerpo de Paz, diet, earthquake, earthquakes, England, food, Granada, heat, history, HIV, hot, inter-oceanic canal, inter-oceanic canals, interoceanic canal, interoceanic canals, jalea, jelly, León, lion, Lion King, lions, Nicaragua, nutrition, obese, overweight, Panama Canal, Peace Corps, pirate, pirates, Rivas, rum, schools, Simba, Spain, teaching, US Peace Corps
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Why I Decided to Join the Peace Corps, Reconsidered
Today when we met with our youth group to finish the jelly for the big sale tomorrow one of the kids in the youth group, a 14 year old by the name of James, spent the entire time making fun … Continue reading
Posted in Peace Corps, Training
Tagged camp, Camp Shohola, counselor, counselors, insecurities, international, internationals, jalea, jam, jelly, jovenes, Nicaragua, PC, Peace Corps, Shohola, speech, US Peace Corps, youth group
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Incidents of Travel 