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Feels Like 106°
You know those one or two days every year in NY when it is 100° and everyone freaks out and the news has extended coverage of how the Port Authority is adding extra buses and the city is setting up spritzing … Continue reading
Posted in León, Vlog
Tagged Chinandega, complain, complaint, Eddard Stark, El Salvador, Game of Thrones, heat, hot, León, Ned Stark, Nicaragua, rain, Starks, summer, video blog, vlog, winter, Winter is Coming
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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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Cosigüina
Our first stop after getting to León was Cosigüina Volcano. Cosigüina used to be the tallest volcano in Nicaragua. Then somewhere between 30,000 and 10,000 years ago it blew up, and now it is a short crater with a lake in the … Continue reading
Posted in Travel, Vlog
Tagged Central America, Chinandega, Contra Wear, contras, Cosiguina, crater, crater lake, El Salvador, forest fire, forest fires, Gulf of Fonseca, Honduras, Iran, Iran-Contra, Iran-Contra Affair, Nicaragua, President, Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Teflon Man, Teflon President, volcanic explosion, volcano
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Semana Santa, Take Two
Last year I was less than thrilled with my first Semana Santa in Nicaragua. This year, despite being tempted to hide in my room or flee the country, I will be receiving my brother instead. Come to think of it, … Continue reading
Posted in Travel
Tagged Bambi, beach, bucket list, Cerro Negro, Chinandega, Cosiguina, Easter, Easter Week, estuary, highlands, hiking, holiday, Holy Week, Jiquilillo, La Dalia, Matagalpa, Nicaragua, Penas Blancas, Puerto Rico, sand boarding, sandboarding, Semana Santa, Telica, vacation, volcano boarding, volcano surfing, wetlands
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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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Flor de Caña
Something that happens from time to time to Volunteers in Nicaragua is getting “Nica kidnapped” or “Nicanapped.” It is when a Nicaraguan invites you to do something, and it the total ordeal takes exponentially longer than you expected. I got … Continue reading
Posted in Peace Corps, Travel
Tagged cafe, Chichigalpa, Chinandega, coffee, factory, Flor de Caña Factory, Flor de Cana, kidnap, kinapped, León, museum, Nicaragua, Peace Corps, rum
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Fun Filled Fun Weekend
As I said on Friday, I had a lot planned for this past weekend. On Friday night I went to a baroque music concert at the fanciest hotel in León. I haven’t been converted into a baroque music fan, but … Continue reading
Posted in León, Travel
Tagged carretera, chicken bus, Chinandega, El Sauce, Flor de Cana, highway, hot sauce, kidney, kidney disease, León, Momotombo, Nicaragua, Pase de Caballos, protest, protesta, ron, rum, San Cristobal, stirke, sugar cane, volcan, volcano, volcanoes, volcanos
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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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