Before the holidays (when I was too busy to post), my son’s school held a fundraiser to help support the Village Empowerment Project. For those of you who have read this blog for a while, you will recall that I have written extensively about traveling to Peru in January of 2008 as a part of [...]
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I just simply can’t believe it! Another Peru Crew is leaving this morning for Lima. How on earth the time passed so quickly since my own trip in January I can’t possibly tell you. But I wish the new crew all good luck.
Recently, when cleaning out my cell phone of old pixs, I [...]
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Yesterday I came upon a very fresh accident with a school bus and a munched car. EMTs were on the scene attending to the injured (or worse). I hurriedly told my son, who was in the back seat, to cover his eyes. An awful sight, not for a ten-year-old.
I pass through this intersection at least [...]
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After dropping off my son and his classmate at school today, I suddenly came upon a traffic jam on a back road. Morning traffic in New England is notoriously bad, but this particular spot puzzled me. It was well before the IRS complex and nowhere near Raytheon. What was the hold-up?
Earlier, when I [...]
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I was sorting through pixs from my trip to Peru today and came across this picture of a little pig:
We were in Huacuy Central that day, installing a vaccine fridge and replacing a broken radio in the medical clinic. It was very foggy up there at 7,000 feet, and I was a bit bummed [...]
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My colleague pointed out the video below to our English department in advance of our annual retreat (devoted to discussing our dept’s recent accreditation review and our future goals). Then today another colleague, “Gandalf” from the Peru Project, in fact, just forwarded it to me as well. So I figured it was time to [...]
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From time to time, I see interesting search terms that people used to find my site, and I try to provide the needed information, however belatedly, for which those folks were searching. Here are three random queries of note:
(1) “Village Empowerment Project” donation
Ah! Is this a query about HOW to donate? If so, [...]
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I just noticed that someone came to my site having searched: “what to get peruvian women as a gift.” A mere commodities search or something more philosophical? My first response is clean water, health care for their children, enough food to feed the family. But then it hit me: WHICH Peru [...]
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My husband and I were reading The Hobbit to our son, as some of you may recall seeing in earlier posts where I pointed out several ways in which the book seemed relevant to me (as I prepared for my service trip to Peru). Well, we almost finished reading before I left — got through [...]
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I only have a few minutes to post today but wanted to share some photos from my trip to Peru. Is a picture worth a thousand words…really!? Not sure about that old adage, but in any case, these’ll have to do for now! (These pixs are set up for on-line viewing and won’t come out [...]
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