 | Combie Driver's Test
2009-10-11, Pacora, Peru. By: fizzlepops | | Seat belt frayed, deteriorating, tied to the door and throw over your lap so it looks like a functioning life-saving device—check.
Pulling out in front of oncoming traffic with your hand sticking o... |
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| Three Things
2009-10-10, Pacora, Peru. By: fizzlepops | | [b]Three Things that make me...[/b]
[b].... shake my head in disbelief[/b]
-Combies passing while there is oncoming traffic...the oncoming traffic is assumed to make room for our car. This is esp... |
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 | Mashca con Leche
2009-10-01, Pacora, Peru. By: fizzlepops | | I eat almost all my meals with my host family, but breakfast…that’s mine. I just can’t handle the really oily fried egg that early in the morning. That was until my host mom started making this deli... |
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 | Karen´s Birthday
2009-09-15, Pacora, Peru. By: fizzlepops | | My sitemate, Karen, lives on the edge of a protected forest and for the past 2 years has spent every Tuesday working with the women park guards. It took her the first 6 months to convince them that s... |
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| "Banker to the Poor"
2009-08-09, Pacora, Peru. By: Fizzlepops | | I just read “Banker to the Poor” by Muhammad Yunus. It has been on my book shelf for months among my books that I really want to read but am just not inspired enough to start. This one in particular... |
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| Pig Flu
2009-07-24, Pacora, Peru. By: fizzlepops | | So they may have officially changed the name to H1N1 but in Peru it is still know as the pig flu and it has started to spread throughout the country bring mass amounts of fear and panic with it. I ha... |
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| Third year in Peru
2009-07-17, Pacora, Peru. By: Fizzlepops | | Time is winding down in my official 2 year volunteer service. With about 5 months left now I had recently decided that maybe I wasn’t ready to leave the country for good. Don’t get me wrong, I am DY... |
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 | When did it become July?
2009-07-12, Pacora, Peru. By: fizzlepops | | [b]Trash Committee[/b]
Time is officially FLYING by! I feel like the year just started but it is already halfway gone. This is partially due to my being more busy than I was last year. The trash c... |
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| OMG, I really dislike our municipality!
2009-06-21, Pacora, Peru. By: Fizzlepops | | For those of you that keep up with my blogs you know that the municipality in my district is one of the most frustrating, corrupt, disorganized municipalities in all of Peru if not the world. Well, o... |
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| The “meaning of life?”
2009-06-13, Pacora, Peru. By: Fizzlepops | | This is a quote from the movie Australia that I watched the other day:
“…most people lay down, you know, land, luggage, other people. Makes ‘em feel secure. But all that can be taken away and in ... |
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| Soccer Game
2009-05-31, Pacora, Peru. By: Fizzlepops | | My host sister just turned 21. For her birthday I thought it would be fun to take all my host siblings and 2 of their cousins to the stadium in Chiclayo to see a soccer game. I went into Chiclayo on... |
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| Bob Barker would be proud
2009-05-01, Pacora, Peru. By: Fizzlepops | | I had meant for this to come out as a blog about my comical journey into the city to get my cat spayed but it came out as more of an explanation of the view/treatment of cats and dogs in my and many o... |
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 | Random bits of information
2009-03-10, Pacora, Peru. By: fizzlepops | | Trash Committee
In January, Karen and I finally managed to hold our first meeting for the formation of a trash committee in Pacora. It took a while due to municipal setbacks but we finally got pas... |
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| Feliz Navidad
2008-12-24, Pacora, Peru. By: fizzlepops | | Happy Holidays to all of my friends and family and to all the random people I don´t know who read this because my father told them to. I hope your holiday season is filled with lots of friends, famil... |
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 | MUSIC
2008-12-17, Pacora, Peru. By: fizzlepops | | Hello friends,
Remember me, your dear friend Susan? Your friend from work, highschool, or college? I have a plea for those of you who have a blank CD, some tunes, a manila envelope and a few extr... |
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| Book quote
2008-11-24, Pacora, Peru. By: fizzlepops | | This reminded me of being a peace corps volunteer. Enjoy.
Book Quote
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
I’ve met travelers who are so physically sturdy they could drink a shoebox of water f... |
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| OBAMA
2008-11-24, Pacora, Peru. By: fizzlepops | | My favorite part of every presidential election is watching the news at night as the poles begin to close. This year I was able to witness that event from another continent via CNN. Watching the elec... |
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| A day in the life of a sick volunteer
2008-11-24, Pacora, Peru. By: fizzlepops | | Except for the yearly sinus infection I seem to get without fair, I feel I am generally in good health. Yet somehow, my year I have spent here in Peru I have been sick more times than I can remember.... |
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| Birthday, baile and a bunch of crickets
2008-07-15, Pacora, Peru. By: fizzlepops | | I used to have a pet lizard I got during a high school science class. We would have to buy it crickets form the local pet store as they were hard to hunt down in the back yard. Never in my life coul... |
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| It´s all good
2008-06-10, Pacora, Peru. By: fizzlepops | | I realize that some of my blogs may have a bit of a dramatic flare to them. Another volunteer warned me that this can result in feelings of panic in loved ones at home who read the blogs and come to ... |
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| Projects? What projects?
2008-06-03, Pacora, Peru. By: fizzlepops | | I am currently typing this while two different people are playing the same song but one is about 5 seconds faster than the other. So, if it sounds like I am having trouble concentrating that’s probab... |
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 | Random happenings of daily life in Peru
2008-05-20, Pacora, Peru. By: fizzlepops | | A few weeks ago 2 women from the nearby town came to visit me at my house. I had met one of the women because she has a field in my site and was there planting in it one day when I was out doing hous... |
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| Quick blog
2008-04-24, Pacora, Peru. By: fizzlepops | | Just a quick update on the life of Susan. I now have 2 host siblings that will be going to University as my host brother has just taken the general exam and gotten in (for biology also). He was the ... |
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 | Que será
2008-04-07, Pacora, Peru. By: fizzlepops | | (note…sorry the pictures I uploaded are not in order)
Vacation was fun but its back to work…and by work I mean working on the stack of books I keep taking from the ´take a book, leave a book´ shelf... |
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