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USA | Tuesday, 15 Jan 2008 | Views [716]
It is the evening before classes start, and I realized I had kind of
left my emails up in the air regarding my return home from Ecuador. So
here are the highlights:
So, picking up from my last email...my last 12 days I spent in Quito,
seeing ... Read more >
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ECUADOR | Monday, 3 Dec 2007 | Views [1153]
So my month-long hiatus from the catcalls, heckling, and general
street-calling came to a screeching halt about 2 weeks ago. Because my
hair decided it wanted to un-dread itself, I complied, and Daniela, and
Lucy a little bit, spent the better part ... Read more >
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ECUADOR | Friday, 16 Nov 2007 | Views [1131]
So my last three weekends were spent 1) in Quito, 2) in Montañita…for
the 3rd time! and 3) in Quito again, but with my mom this time. My mom
bought her tickets 11 days before coming, and it was quite a surprise
when I found out via chat with my sister ... Read more >
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ECUADOR | Tuesday, 4 Sep 2007 | Views [575]
For a play by play with photos from this last weekend, go to http://www.facebook.com/al bum.php?aid=2277880&l=47f8 d&id=8628451
And for more Ecuador observations, I turn to the driving system. Like
any large city, Quito is a crazy ... Read more >
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GUATEMALA | Saturday, 23 Jun 2007 | Views [1555]
On my last night in Comalapa we ended up singing and eating and playing with hot coals around the fire, when at about 11:00pm a couple of gun shots rang out from behind where we were all sitting. Though this quieted us, we returned to normal festejar-... Read more >
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GUATEMALA | Monday, 7 Aug 2006 | Views [712]
Two Months of Moments To start off in describing my two month experience in Guatemala, I must relate my latest “Guatemalan moment” that occurred about a week ago. Mateo and I were working on the chicken coop when three indigenous women came by to ... Read more >
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GUATEMALA | Monday, 7 Aug 2006 | Views [614]
My feet hurt so badly... Cat's birthday is today, but we celebrated it Saturday with a bunch of her friends in Poaquil, a little city that's 11.5 kilometers from Comalapa. Mateo decides that instead of taking the hour and a half bus ride and going ... Read more >
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GUATEMALA | Sunday, 16 Jul 2006 | Views [1645]
As if our chicken bus rides have not been interesting enough, yesterday provided the ultimate of the ultimate of my chicken bus experiences. We, Lucy and Jessica (some ladies from California that I traveled with)and myself, had just spent 6 hours ... Read more >
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GUATEMALA | Sunday, 25 Jun 2006 | Views [1357]
Just so we stay on our toes at Chimiyá, the goats we have recently purchased have taken to trying to kill themselves on a daily basis. Be it jumping through barb-wired fences to eat the neighbor´s crops, running away from home, or more creativly ... Read more >
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GUATEMALA | Tuesday, 20 Jun 2006 | Views [876]
One comical story to start out...yesterday Amelia, Kat, and I were
planting trees/talking and a bunch of indigenous peeps were coming to
the park and we ended up talking to one woman in particular who was
interested in what we were doing. We tried ... Read more >
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