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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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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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Telica Keeps on Rumbling
Things are still rumbling in Telica. I was there last Monday. At that time there hadn’t been an eruption for 24 hours, but things acted up again later in the week and have not ceased. The super-heated boulders that are … Continue reading
Posted in Vlog
Tagged beach, eruption, explosion, health, Poneloya, Red Cross, Telica, Telica Volcano, Volcan Telica, volcanic eruption, volcanic explosion, volcano
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One Day in the Campo
Posted in Peace Corps, Travel, Vlog
Tagged access, agrarian lifestyle, agriculture, campo, community, development, education, electricity, farming, health, hopscotch, hot spring, lack of access, road, rural, rural community, school, Telica, thermal spring, under-developed, video, video blog, vlog, Volcan Telica, volcano, water
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Lunar Eclipse
There’s a l0t of moon action this weekend. Saturday night is the first night of Passover, which astronomically guarantees a full moon. Full moons are a big deal here in León because many tour companies offer full moon volcano hikes, … Continue reading
Posted in León
Tagged causation, correlation, earthquake, eclipse, full moon, hike, Judaism, León, lunar eclipse, moon, Nicaragua, Passover, religion, superstition, Telica, tetrad, volcano, volcano hike
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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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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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Wormhole Telica
Yesterday a group of Volunteers, myself included, took a self-guided hike to Volcan Telica. Now, all of us having seen Interstellar last night, we were showing off our new-found PhD’s in Physics and Metaphysical Philosophy the whole way up. The two … Continue reading
Posted in Travel
Tagged Anne Hathaway, astophysics, black hole, bucket list, Christopher Nolan, cone, crater, dimension, dimensions, director, fifth dimension, film, fourth dimension, galaxies, galaxy, Gargantua, Hathaway, hike, Inception, Interstellar, Matthew McConaughey, McConaughey, movie, Nicaragua, Nolan, orbit, physics, planet, science, space, space travel, space-time, spacetime, Telica, time, time travel, Volcan Telica, volcano, worm hole, wormhole
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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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