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Pizza & Art
About an hour south of León there is a small sea-side fishing town called El Tránsito. And ten years ago, a an American woman founded a center called “El Tránsito Centro de Artes,” or “El Tránsito Arts Center,” (ETCA) in … Continue reading
Posted in Peace Corps, Second Goal, Work
Tagged art, art center, artesenal pizza, beach, brick oven, brick oven pizza, climate, dreams, dry, El Nino, embroider, embroidery, fish, fishing, ocean, Pacific Ocean, personal goals, philanthropist, philanthropy, pizza, pizza art, pizza oven, rain, rainy season, savings, sew, sewing, turtle eggs, turtles, women, womens' collective, womens' cooperative, wood oven
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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
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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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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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One Year Down, One Year to Go
The sad occasion of the departure of two of my beloved site-mates, Joanna and Isabel, makes me realize that I myself became a Volunteer a year ago today, May 23, 2014, after 11 weeks of training. Joanna and Isabel are … Continue reading
Posted in Peace Corps, Work
Tagged anniversary, beach, beach house, beach rental, beach weekend, financial education, León, Nicaragua, Peace Corps, site-mate, US Peace Corps
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Las Pilas-El Hoyo
One of the projects that I have been working on nearly my entire time in León is business advising for a rural tourism cooperative. In January I proposed to them the idea of offering a full moon hike to Las … Continue reading
Posted in León, Work
Tagged Asososca, business advising, business advisory, cooperative, dawn, El Hoyo, full moon, full moon hike, full moon tour, hiking, Laguna del Tigre, Lake Managua, Las Pilas, Las Pilas-El Hoyo, León, Managua, Momotombito, Momotombo, moon, Nicaragua, rural tourism, tour, tourism
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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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Interstellar II: Return to Gargantua
One of my newest clients is another tourism cooperative that manages the Telica Volcano. I made a plan to go meet with them yesterday and do some business training and strategic planning with them. I showed up a little early, … Continue reading
Posted in Peace Corps, Work
Tagged beans, business training, community, cooperative, corn, farming, horse, horseback riding, horses, Interstellar, maiz, maize, poverty, rural communities, rural community, Telica, Telica Volcano, tourism, Volcan Telica, volcanic eruption
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Incidents of Travel 