 | Leaving Lima amidst mask mayhem...
2009-04-29, San Salvador, El Salvador. By: Fidgi | | I’m typing up today’s entry in San Salvador International Airport, where I’ve had a 4 hour stop-over en route from Lima to San Fransisco. Part of me is reminiscing happily about the lovely time I had... |
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 | More Salvadorean stories
2008-12-29, San Salvador, El Salvador. By: fidgi | | There’s a lot for me to catch up in terms of writing about these past few days… Since my last entry there’s been my Christmas dinner here, a day at someone’s beach house on the Pacific shores of La L... |
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 | A Christmas message from San Salvador!
2008-12-25, San Salvador, El Salvador. By: fidgi | | Feliz Navidad everyone! I know I promised some of you a seasonal message to rival Her Maj’s so here it is, coming to you live all the way from El Salvador! I’ll probably have to keep it quite brief,... |
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 | 2008 Workshop Ends in Rousing Success!
2008-12-12, San Salvador, El Salvador. By: ffdrh | | Dear Friends,
Thank you for not giving up on this travel journal and me! The last week went by in such a whirl that I haven't made time to write. I also forgot to take pictures so had to wait for... |
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 | Fantastic Trip North in Morazán
2008-12-07, San Salvador, El Salvador. By: ffdrh | | Hello, again,
It's Sun. night, and the team just returned from a fantastic overnight trip north to the Honduran border. On Sat. morning, we headed north on the Ruta de la Paz with our van and drive... |
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 | Wish You Were Here!!
2008-11-30, San Salvador, El Salvador. By: ffdrh | | Welcome back, Friends,
Our first weekend around San Miguel was jam-packed and very interesting. We went Saturday morning to Guatajiagua, the pueblo of UNIVO's Coordinador de Proyección Social, Lic... |
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 | Workshop Underway in San Miguel
2008-11-27, San Salvador, El Salvador. By: ffdrh | | Hello, Friends,
The San Miguel team has been very pleased with the dedication and participation of the teachers who are coming daily for the TEACHER-TO-TEACHER workshop. Some of them ride a bus mo... |
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 | 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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