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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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Machete-Wielding Hitchhikers on Active Volcanoes
My former-but-always-and-forever-in-the-cuadra-of-my-heart site-mate Isabel is traveling through South America at the moment, and reading her blog is bringing back excellent memories of my short time in Ecuador, studying abroad in the winter of 2009. In particular, Isabel was recently in … Continue reading
Posted in Incidents of Travel Past
Tagged active, active volcano, ATV, Banos, Delaware, Ecuador, hitchhike, hitchhiker, hitchhiking, Incidents of Travel Past, machete, off-road, off-roading, study abroad, UD, University of Delaware, volcano
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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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Disasters, Natural and Otherwise
A few disasters, natural and otherwise, have reared up around the Occidente this week, each affecting my projects. I’ve written before about the incidence of disasters here and the vulnerability of the population. Luckily, so far these have been minor … Continue reading
Posted in León
Tagged Bernie Sanders, Democratic Presidential Nomination, disaster, disasters, gold, gold mine, Mina El Limón, mine, natural disaster, Poneloya, protest, strike, swell, tidal swell, tide, tsunami, violence, volcanic emissions, volcanic eruption, volcano, vulnerability
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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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Aaron in Nicaragua
When my parents visited, I characterized them as being like children. They had no idea what was going on and always needed to be told what to do (as well as have things translated into Spanish for them). I realize … Continue reading
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
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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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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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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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