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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
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Bizarre Foods: Nicaragua
I assure you, this makes Nicaraguan cuisine seem far more interesting than it actually is:
Posted in Third Goal, Vlog
Tagged Bizarre Foods, cuisine, gastronomy, Nicaragua, Travel Channel, video blog, video log, vlog
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I Went to Jail
You may have noticed that I have not posted in two weeks or so…
Posted in León, Pre-Service
Tagged El Chapo, food, jail, jail conditions, law, Managua, Nicaragua, prison, prisoner, San Juan del Sur
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At a Crossroads
Every year the Peace Corps has a series of regional meetings on Safety & Security. The León/Chinandega meeting was last week while I was on Ometepe, so the Peace Corps kindly asked me to attend the meeting in Estelí. The meeting … Continue reading
Posted in Peace Corps, Travel
Tagged bucket list, crossroads, Esteli, goals, Jimmy Carter, Nicaragua, Peace Corps, service, Travel, volunteer
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Day Four: Tourism Business Development Workshop, Ometepe
Posted in Vlog
Tagged Charco Verde, Lake Nicaragua, Nicaragua, Ometepe, Ometepe Island, tourism, video, video blog, video journal, video log, vlog
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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
Posted in Work
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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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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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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Incidents of Travel 