 | The End
2007-12-16, San Salvador, El Salvador. By: ffdrh | | Dear Family and Friends,
Our team made it safely back to San Salvador on Saturday. The whirlwind continued as I met with a group of teachers from previous years, and later met with our Salvadoran ... |
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 | The Last Week
2007-12-14, San Miguel, El Salvador. By: ffdrh | | Hello again,
The last week has come and gone in a whirlwind! The teachers performed the plays they wrote based on fairy tale books. The activity shows them how they can use drama to practice the ... |
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| Trip to Perquin
2007-12-13, San Miguel, El Salvador. By: ffdrh | | Dear Friends and Family,
This message will tell you about the incredible trip we took last weekend, Dec. 8,9. We thought we had a van arranged for Saturday but on Friday night we discovered the co... |
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| Long absence!
2007-12-11, San Miguel, El Salvador. By: ffdrh | | Dear Friends and Family,
I apologize for the long absence in talking to you. Last week my laptop got knocked off a desk and broke. In Spanish its called "se rumpio" which means it broke itself --... |
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| The End of the First Week!
2007-11-30, San Salvador, El Salvador. By: ffdrh | | #5
The end of the first week!
What an interesting group of volunteers, and an interesting group of teachers! I’m enjoying the personal contact with all of them, and trying to keep the rough edges... |
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| D-Day at UNIVO
2007-11-26, San Salvador, El Salvador. By: ffdrh | | #4
I didn’t need to worry about San Miguel! The Salvadoran coordinator picked us up in San Salvador and brought us to San Miguel (2 1/2 hours each way,) arranged good hotel accommodations, helped ... |
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| Ready-Set-Go?
2007-11-24, San Salvador, El Salvador. By: ffdrh | | #3 Ready-Set-Go?
We enjoyed a visit to a “summer camp” on Thurs. This is a program that teaches English to “jovenes talentos” (gifted kids) and is funded by the American Embassy. The HS aged stud... |
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 | Beautiful Guatamala
2007-11-22, San Salvador, El Salvador. By: ffdrh | | #2
Time out for an ADVENTURE – Saturday 11/17 my friend Dianne and I went with some Salvadoran friends by bus to Guatamala, returning Wednesday 11/21. The country is rugged and beautiful – a combina... |
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| Daphne Arrives in El Salvador
2007-11-15, San Salvador, El Salvador. By: ffdrh | | Dear Family and Friends,
My co-director and I are safe and sound at the Villa Serena Hotel in San Salvador. We had delays out of SEA and LAX, but with long layovers anyway, they were no problem. ... |
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 | white and fluffy
2007-08-17, san salvador, El Salvador. By: vorn | | copan was pleasant but there was not a hell of a lot to see in a 6k person town so we just relaxed in our pretty cool hostel and recovered from our sardine shuttle.
off to the ruins the next day w... |
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 | Day Two but really Day One
2007-06-26, Chalatenango, El Salvador. By: gumbolia83 | | Ok so there is only an hour time difference but I cant seem to get it together. I woke up at 2am thinking it was 6am, I can boast that I was the first one ready.I have hopes of conquering my fears of ... |
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| Eighth Installment – The Grand Finale
2006-11-27, San Miguel, El Salvador. By: ffdrh | | Eighth Installment – The Grand Finale
Monday got off to a good start with a visit from two of our former teacher participants who now do recruitment contact work for the Project. They spoke during... |
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| Seventh Installment - Another Fun Weekend!
2006-11-27, San Miguel, El Salvador. By: ffdrh | | Seventh Installment - Another Fun Weekend!
Well, things are rarely simple! The San Miguel team planned a day at San Diego beach near La Libertad with the San Salvador team. Besides being a beauti... |
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| Sixth Installment: Week #2
2006-11-27, San Miguel, El Salvador. By: ffdrh | | Sixth Installment: Week #2
The volunteers and participating teachers really worked last week! We had our groups acting out puppet plays, taking opinion polls and graphing the results, writing scr... |
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| Fifth Installment: The Trip to Perquin
2006-11-27, San Miguel, El Salvador. By: ffdrh | | Fifth Installment: The Trip to Perquin
The team presenting the workshop in San Salvador joined us in San Miguel on Friday night so we could get an early start on Saturday. Our goal was to visit t... |
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| Installment #4: The Adventure Continues!
2006-11-27, San Miguel, El Salvador. By: ffdrh | | Installment #4: The Adventure Continues!
Tuesday the teachers greeted us like long-lost friends. They are so friendly and so appreciative that it is impossible not to love them all. Several have... |
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| Installment #3: On the Job in San Miguel
2006-11-27, San Miguel, El Salvador. By: ffdrh | | Installment #3: On the Job in San Miguel
What a busy first day! A wonderful welcoming ceremony was held in the University auditorium with all of the academic authorities and deans present. The E... |
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| Installment #2 Getting down to business!
2006-11-24, San Miguel, El Salvador. By: ffdrh | | Installment #2 Getting down to business!
Dianne and I awoke after our long flight from Fairbanks to San Salvador feeling refreshed and ready to begin final preparations for the Teacher-to-Teacher w... |
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 | CLASS FINAL NEWSPAPER
2006-07-10, Aldeita, El Salvador. By: raat0015 | | THE WORLD IN OUR HANDS
By Jessica’s English Class
2006
National
Price of Electricity rises
By: Luisa
In El Salvador the problems increase every day.
The delinquency, the poverty and a lo... |
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| Reflective day at UMOAR
2006-07-10, Aldeita, El Salvador. By: raat0015 | | Today is a sad day, it was the Diploma Ceremony at UMOAR and we had to say good bye to all of our students and new friends. We were so warmly embraced by everyone here, it makes it harder to leave I ... |
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 | Wednesday
2006-07-05, Chalatenango, El Salvador. By: rkaplan01 | | Today I got a spanish lesson from my students. Three of them attempted to teach me, but they just argued over how to spell correctly and what word to use. It was funny. I studied Spanish for over six ... |
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 | Reality and Escape
2006-07-03, El Zonte, El Salvador. By: ellamae | | Its been a while since my last update so I feel compelled to write something. Life is good - have kinda settled into a regular pace of life here so I guess its feeling less like travel and more like ... |
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| Last Week
2006-07-03, Chalatenango, El Salvador. By: rkaplan01 | | Last week here in El Salvador. I am more then sad to have to go back to New York. These past few days have been amazing and so opening. Last week I got sick which was a downer, but I pulled through it... |
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| Third Week
2006-06-26, Chalatenango, El Salvador. By: rkaplan01 | | Time is flying. I can not believe we are already on our third week here. Just one more to go. I knew time was going to go fast but this is way to fast.
Friday we ended class a little earlier to ha... |
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 | Weekend Adventures
2006-06-22, Chalatenango, El Salvador. By: raat0015 | | This past weekend we went to the pool in Chalatenango again but this time we invited our classes to join us. Only a few students from each class showed up, but it was a good time. After that we walk... |
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| Happy Teacher!
2006-06-22, Chalatenango, El Salvador. By: raat0015 | | Today was teacher's day and it was so sweet! My class brought a big cake, and Rothana's did too, Rachel's class brought in Pizza for lunch and Sam's class is having a party tomorrow! We are all goin... |
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| Wednesday
2006-06-21, Chalatenango, El Salvador. By: rkaplan01 | | Today...Wednesday, almost two weeks into our four week program here in El Salvador. Today went better then planned. Last night my stomach was bothering me, making it really hard to concentrate, but as... |
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| Feeling Better
2006-06-16, Chalatenango, El Salvador. By: raat0015 | | So I am feeling much better today, at least so far. I don't even remember writing to you yesterday, I was so tired and out of it. It was the usual traveler's sickness, but what was different was tha... |
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| Day 1 in El Salvador
2006-06-12, Chalatenango, El Salvador. By: raat0015 | | I am finally in El Salvador, ready to teach English for the next month! We arrived yesterday, four other students and myself, and we settled into our new home. We are living in a rectory and have th... |
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 | So Hot!!!
2006-06-21, Chalatenango, El Salvador. By: raat0015 | | Wow, so I am sweaty like never before! Every afternoon at about 12:30 I feel like taking a siesta because it gets so hot until about 5 at night. But, the people don't do that here, they are hard wor... |
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| ALF
2006-06-20, Chalatenango, El Salvador. By: raat0015 | | Today my class decided we should go from 8-1 and then end for the day, so that is a nice new schedule. It was 8-12 before with and hour lunch and then from 1-2thirty.
I like the idea of just getti... |
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| Week 2
2006-06-19, Aldeita, El Salvador. By: mena | | I´ve survived a week in El Salvador.. everything has been good so far... my eating, sleeping, digesting, lol. the country is very beautiful, but i miss home alot- getting a little tired of the tortill... |
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| Week Numero DOS
2006-06-19, Chalatenango, El Salvador. By: rkaplan01 | | Week two...Lots to write. I for one am still enamoured with with place. After a week of teaching we spent the weekend exploring the country side and the City of Chalatenango. Although I am completely ... |
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 | First test was a success!
2006-06-19, Chalatenango, El Salvador. By: raat0015 | | Wow, I don't suck as a teacher! My class took their first test today that covered four chapters. They did very well in general, although I have to say the test was pretty easy. Rachel is giving a h... |
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| FREEDAY
2006-06-16, Chalatenango, El Salvador. By: rkaplan01 | | so im sitting here after completing a full week of teaching. I have mixed feelings. I feel accomplished but more like a slacker. I really wish i knew more of the language. I think my students would ge... |
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| Day 2 teaching
2006-06-14, Chalatenango, El Salvador. By: raat0015 | | My class is awesome. They are so kind and understanding when I make a jerk of myself trying to speak Spanish. I feel like they have learned a lot so far though. Letter, Numbers, W questions, Greeti... |
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 | The Tika bus station... Help!!!!
2004-07-06, San Salvador, El Salvador. By: spadilla03 | | Tuesday July 6th 2004
This morning we woke up in managua. It was going to be a long day becuase we were headed back to Guatemala, or at least starting our journey back. Today we were only going t... |
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| A whole new adventure
2004-06-27, Playa de San Diego, El Salvador. By: spadilla03 | | El Salvador
Thats right El Salvador, what the heck are we doing here.
I think that what makes a road trip so good, or any trip for that matter, are the little adventures that you dont plan to h... |
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