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Cuerpo de Paz Panamá: November 2009
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Cuerpo de Paz Panamá. Monday, November 30, 2009. Please Support my Community’s Agriculture. Greetings. Today I write to you all with a request. Please help us cover the costs of materials and logistics for the seminar. Donate now to the Agro-Business Seminar. Happy Holidays and thank you! Thursday, November 12, 2009. Chocolate and Mud Making. First the pod is cut open to reveal the white slime covered seeds inside. Here is a pile of toasted beans ready for shelling. The beans have a thin shell coveri...
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Cuerpo de Paz Panamá: Gross National Toughness
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Cuerpo de Paz Panamá. Sunday, June 6, 2010. I learned what it meant to contribute to Panama's gross national toughness last week. When I was a new volunteer, still fresh faced from training, I spoke with a veteran volunteer, and he shared his ideas about an innovative economic index that Panama could use to measure its riches in terms of its people's 'grit': gross national toughness. It would account for the sweat, blood, and tears shed daily in our communities. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Cuerpo de Paz Panamá: March 2009
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Cuerpo de Paz Panamá. Saturday, March 21, 2009. The Ants Go Marching. I fling my prized veggie out the window and drown my blazing hand in my glass of water. Rufino´s pet capuchin, Fotín. Sorry, you´ll have to turn your head to watch. Thursday, March 12, 2009. But I have not and will not surrender to those mischievous little amoebas that are apparently quite fond of dwelling in my intestines. Ss to enter my site. Kind of scary, but atleast it is being repaired. From the leadership seminar. I have some be...
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Cuerpo de Paz Panamá: February 2009
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Cuerpo de Paz Panamá. Sunday, February 8, 2009. Jorge, my neighbor/Naso teacher, told my dripping wet sister upon her arrival to my community that according to the Naso legend visitors to the pueblo Naso. Bad shape (see picture below). Although I am back into the province, high rivers and flooding have kept me from returning to my community. Yesterday the volunteer closest to my site was evacuated from his community via news helicopter, and I remain in Changuinola waiting for the rain to stop. El Chorill...
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Cuerpo de Paz Panamá: Tjä Toë
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Cuerpo de Paz Panamá. Wednesday, May 26, 2010. A couple Thursday mornings ago, Ernesto and his grand kids led me up the hillside to his farm to collect almonds. We had been waiting for the harvest for months ever since the branches filled with pink blossoms late last year. We climbed the hillside passing his plots of pineapples, green beans, basil, peppers, and peanuts. Eventually we climbed above the fog and drizzle that enclosed our houses below. We will be updating regularly throughout the tour.
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Cuerpo de Paz Panamá: June 2009
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Cuerpo de Paz Panamá. Tuesday, June 23, 2009. I dropped off a couple specimens at a lab today. I passed the goods through the little window and the exchange with the receptionist went something like this:. 8212; ¿Tu nombre? Her eyebrows raise- J-a-n-e-double l, Henry. 8212; ¿Fecha de nacimiento? 8212; El 30 de mayo del 1995. Eyebrows shoot even higher. I think. I laugh a little. I tell her I look mature for my age. I feel like an idiot. She laughs. I correct myself. Friday, June 5, 2009. View my complete...
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Cuerpo de Paz Panamá: May 2009
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Cuerpo de Paz Panamá. Saturday, May 30, 2009. Greetings. Things are going great. Becky came to visit. It was fun. Been busy. Real post coming eventually. From farmer field day. preparing cocoa seeds for planting. Playing games with my farmers, but with a purpose. Finally sold it all, brought more than $250 back to the community. which translates into lots of school supplies. Fellow Bocas cocoa gurus. Becky hanging with the neighbors and their chickens and goats. Garden goodies - green beans.
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Cuerpo de Paz Panamá: Thanks
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Cuerpo de Paz Panamá. Thursday, January 7, 2010. Thanks to all of you that have helped support the agribusiness seminar. Your generosity has been amazing. And thanks to all of you who continue to follow my blog despite my recent shameless overt pandering for money. For my farmers. It’ll be their first time tasting the finished product. I hope they are thrilled as I am. Austin, Texas recycle bins even feature cocoa pods. Congratulations, Corin and Kieran! My host brother is cute (turn your head to view).
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Cuerpo de Paz Panamá: April 2009
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Cuerpo de Paz Panamá. Saturday, April 11, 2009. A quick recap of the past couple weeks (post army ant invasion):. Following a bit of pleading, the very recently organized artisan group in my community has been working full force crafting traditional baskets (pronounced sheen. Yes, I did sprain my ankle. There was no mud (it finally stopped raining! And I was running late, so I thought I would run. My ankle is getting better. And. No one saw the fall. Food experiments. Friday featured guandú. The opinions...
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Cuerpo de Paz Panamá: December 2008
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Cuerpo de Paz Panamá. Monday, December 29, 2008. A ‘Chilly’ Christmas. I loaded my ipod with Christmas music and made paper red and green construction paper chains and paper snowflakes. My hut now looks like a second grade classroom. My neighbors tell me that they like my ‘flowers’ (the paper snow flakes). Because I’ve had several failed attempts at describing snow, I now just accept that compliment and say, ‘Thanks, I think the. Are pretty, too.’. One of the newest editions to the hood: Pinto. Unloading...
