Follow me on Twitter
My TweetsEINSLER's Instagram Feed
No Instagram images were found.
June 2022 M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 -
Recent Posts
Blogs I Follow
Categories
Archives
Recent Comments
Incidents of Travel… on Video Blog = Vlog La Asunción de María… on La Gritería Chiquita Entrepreneurship Com… on Prototype Day, 2015 einsler on Pizza & Art Lew on Pizza & Art - The content of this blog are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the United States government or the Peace Corps. However, being that I am a United States Peace Corps Volunteer, which is an agency of the United State government, this compulsory message does present us with a bit of a contradiction.
Tag Archives: Masaya
San Juan de Oriente
Not the best of videos, so I’ll embellish a bit. After the GMAT on Friday, I headed back to my training town for the weekend. It was rainy and cool, which for a Leones like me right now is like … Continue reading
Posted in Photography, Vlog
Tagged art photography, artisans, ceramics, Chikungunya, family, GMAT, Masaya, Nicaragua, photography, pottery, pre-Columbian, pre-Columbian art, pueblo, San Juan, San Juan de Oriente, town, training town, video blog, video log, village, vlog
Leave a comment
Ometepe Island
After an interminable 11 hours on a ferry from Río San Juan that I could have swam faster than, my parents and I arrived at 1:30 AM on Ometepe Island. Ometepe is made of two imposing volcanoes jutting out of … Continue reading
Posted in Travel
Tagged Christmas, cigars, coffee, ferry, Granada, Lake Nicaragua, Masaya, Ometepe, Ometepe Island, petroglyphs, plantains, Rio San Juan, San Juan de Oriente, tobacco, volcano, volcanoes
4 Comments
Blenvy
When we moved into our training towns way back in March, I was in a nice house in San Juan de Oriente, Masaya. The other Trainees in my town were Ryan, Jessica, and Rosendo. Jessica’s host mother, Eveling, was a … Continue reading
Posted in León
Tagged banana, bananas, beans, blender, blender envy, blenvy, chia, chia seeds, León, Masaya, milkshake, milkshakes, Nicaragua, Osterizer, San Juan de Oriente
2 Comments
Making Smoothies with Nicaraguan Teenagers
As part of our youth business group’s attempt to commercialize healthy smoothies in a very short eight week window: I believe that their final recipe includes bananas, papaya, orange juice, and water mellon.
Posted in Peace Corps, Training
Tagged batidos, Faro de Luz, jovenes, Masaya, milk shakes, Nicaragua, private school, San Juan de Oriente, secondary school, smoothies, Spanish, teenagers, youth
Leave a comment
A Day in the Life of a Small Business Development (“Pequeños Negocios”) Trainee in Nicaragua
7:00 AM – Wake up to the alarm on my phone* Shower (cold) and shave (often without a mirror, and it is very hard to clean the razor blade because there isn’t … Continue reading
Nicaragua
I have been in Nicaragua since last Wednesday. However, I only really felt like I got here on Saturday when I arrived at my host family in San Juan de Oriente, Masaya. Before that we were at a hotel in … Continue reading
Posted in Peace Corps, Travel
Tagged Masaya, Nicaragua, Peace Corps, San Juan de Oriente, Small Business Development, Spanish, training, US Peace Corps
2 Comments