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callie's nicaraguan adventure: agosto 2008
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Lunes, 11 de agosto de 2008. Coloring Between the Lines: A Raging Commentary on the Nicaraguan Education System. Education in the “developing world” frustrates beyond belief. The government cannot (or chooses not, either way you look at it) afford for children to attend school full-time. Therefore, kids here go to school in shifts. Grades 1-3 and 7-8 have class from. And grades 4-6 and 9-11 attend school from. Grade history) has suggestions like this:. Week 1 Lesson Plan:. I will tell you why. Teacher wr...
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callie's nicaraguan adventure: Nicaraguan Health Care: Where Hospitals are Cemetaries
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Lunes, 9 de febrero de 2009. Nicaraguan Health Care: Where Hospitals are Cemetaries. One of my best girlfriends here in. Mayerling, waltzes into the room with her own soundtrack which sounds something like a funky rhythmed snare drum. She is strikingly beautiful and her dirty humor and easy smile have filled many a night in our home with light and laughter. Today Mayerling knocks on our front door and enters the house a changed woman, the sexy swagger in her step now turned into a saddened shuffle. To wh...
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callie's nicaraguan adventure: Airports
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Miércoles, 30 de julio de 2008. I sit with Doña Helena and her cheery 5-year-old daughter from. Helena, a native Nicaraguan tells me of her 20 years of life as an immigrant in. And her Mexican husband who works construction. She’s stressed about his current lack of work, and speaks of the. Economy in its downward spiral towards crisis. Explains the division between Hispanics and whites in her town, choosing her words carefully. Her daughter, a native. United States of America. Suscribirse a: Enviar comen...
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callie's nicaraguan adventure: abril 2008
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Miércoles, 30 de abril de 2008. Reflexiones on Being Profe. Callie. Sometimes the flavor of frustration. Coppery and quick to strike, pumps. Through every nerve ending with venomous intent. A spasm of anger recoils my smile. To pursed lips screaming for an undisturbed. Like a toddler who can taste feelings. Before knowing how to categorize them;. I am thrown for loops by teenage laughter. Snide ironic comments that can only be. Bent by the hasty mouths of 16-year-olds. Mauled into a clenched jaw. Cuales ...
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Lunes, 11 de agosto de 2008. How do I feel nostalgic and heartsick for a place I haven't left yet? When children's voices lifted in quiet song on a windy Sunday afternoon choke tears in my throat, and swarms of dragonflies floating through branches in my orange tree leave me longing and breathless? Mid-afternoon sun-filtered through holes in a tiled roof, in the arms of someone I'm slowly tearing myself away from yet constantly pulled toward lances through me leaving profound holes in my heart. Http:/ ww...
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callie's nicaraguan adventure: noviembre 2007
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Martes, 6 de noviembre de 2007. A list of heckles I receive every day walking to and from school:. 8220;Ayyyyy mi amor! Translation: Oh, my love. My heart. My life.). 8220;Voy a casarme contigo y vamos a los Estados! Translation: I’m going to marry you and we are going to the United States.). 8220;Ayyyy mi muneca….”. Translation: Oh, my doll.). 8220;Adios chelita preciosa hermosa (insert smooching sound here)! Translation: Goodbye beautiful precious whitey MWAH.). Translation: Goodbye my LOVE! 3) Men thi...
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callie's nicaraguan adventure: diciembre 2007
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Jueves, 20 de diciembre de 2007. Hi friends and loved ones! It´s sort of lame of me to post a group holiday greeting like this, but I figure I haven´t updated a majority of you on my happenings and wanderings in some time. (aka since I moved to Nicaragua last January) and also wanted to wish all of you a very happy holidays! I hope this note finds you well, blessed, and at peace. Bet you can´t even imagine that! I have about a month of vacation (finally! I´ve decided to stay here for at least anothe...
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callie's nicaraguan adventure: mayo 2008
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Viernes, 23 de mayo de 2008. I am SO excited for my July visit to Montana. But can tell I am subconsciously nervous about things. Because I keep having dreams about. Of the Bush family. Frightening thought, right? In brighter news I am also dreaming of lattice-topped apple pie. Lunes, 12 de mayo de 2008. Osvaldo and I rode horseback eight hours last weekend to meet his nearly 100-year-old grandma, who lives in a tiny community called Aguas Calientes (hot waters). Miraculously enough an AMBULANCE (a 4 x 4...