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hola hispaniola: February 2011
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Monday, February 14, 2011. As promised, here are some pictures of the new place! Nothing too exciting, but it'll help you to have an idea of how I'm living. Balcony (with easy access to the roof! Bathroom (not a closet - just drying some clothes). My beautiful (and terribly dirty) 2003 Nissan Sentra. Neighborhood view to the left. Neighborhood view to the right. Thursday, February 10, 2011. All is well. Here is some what's going on with Haiti and with me:. Not exactly. As I've elaborated on before. Point...
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hola hispaniola: Whelmed...over and under
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Tuesday, July 1, 2008. Whelmed.over and under. As usual, I hope this little update finds everyone in good spirits. Amazing to be starting a blog entry with the words "as usual," but I suppose that those words have once again found themselves a place in my lexicon after nearly ten (10! Months in the same place. WARNING.entering "existential ruminations" zone* *. But, when the novelty of a situation wears off and the desire to try something new returns, what does one do if he can't leave? So, I go to the b...
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hola hispaniola: December 2010
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Saturday, December 11, 2010. So, yes, it’s frustrating. I’ve talked about it before. Take your pick of any of those tired platitudes: swimming upstream, running in place, spinning my wheels. My current situation is just another manifestation of one of those, except this time it’s physical: I’m stuck. From the London Review of Books. While I’m immobilized for a couple of days, most Haitians, such as the 54%. Party out of power. Questioning the results.). The protests were entirely predictable and justifie...
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hola hispaniola: opinions
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Thursday, March 31, 2011. I meet a lot of other foreigners who are living and working in Haiti, and oftentimes we get to talking. For those unfamiliar with the ritual of meeting another blan. In Haiti, the first two questions that every single one of these conversations begins with are: 1) Who are you working with? And 2) How long have you been here? Haiti wins its independence from France in 1804, completing the only successful slave rebellion in history. The French immediately levy a debt on Haiti ...
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hola hispaniola: house pictures
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Monday, February 14, 2011. As promised, here are some pictures of the new place! Nothing too exciting, but it'll help you to have an idea of how I'm living. Balcony (with easy access to the roof! Bathroom (not a closet - just drying some clothes). My beautiful (and terribly dirty) 2003 Nissan Sentra. Neighborhood view to the left. Neighborhood view to the right. David, what a nice apartment! And thats a kitchen you can COOK in! February 14, 2011 at 3:58 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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hola hispaniola: July 2011
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Friday, July 8, 2011. Four years in pictures. Yesterday was the fourth anniversary of my summit of Mount Katahdin and the end of my four-month hike of the Appalachian Trail. It got me thinking of all the places I've been since then. Here's a five-picture tour, with links to narratives from those days:. July 2007 - On top of Katahdin. You can read about that day here. From a few days after that. From three days after I flew into Port-au-Prince to stay for the next two years. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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hola hispaniola: June 2011
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Thursday, June 9, 2011. When I was in the Peace Corps, I celebrated my one-year mark in the Dominican Republic by going to the beach with a couple of friends, enjoying one or eight Presidentes, and generally reveling in all the great things associated with living on a Caribbean island. This Monday, I celebrated my first anniversary in Haiti by heading down to work, despite some oh-so-typical intestinal issues and an even nastier cold. I took a half day. Me and Mittens's mom on Mittens's mom's birthday.
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hola hispaniola: The Loop
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Tuesday, July 7, 2009. I'm out of it. It is a constant struggle to try to stay in tune with the goings-on of the world outside of my ever-shrinking Peace Corps bubble. If M.J. barely made it on to my radar, you can imagine how cursory my knowledge of other (read: more important) current events are. Honduras? That polarizing comedian quasi-Senator guy? Is it even possible to get an unbiased account of events that are of actual importance and significane to our lives? I'm not Rupert Murdoch. From September...
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hola hispaniola: March 2011
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Thursday, March 31, 2011. I meet a lot of other foreigners who are living and working in Haiti, and oftentimes we get to talking. For those unfamiliar with the ritual of meeting another blan. In Haiti, the first two questions that every single one of these conversations begins with are: 1) Who are you working with? And 2) How long have you been here? Haiti wins its independence from France in 1804, completing the only successful slave rebellion in history. The French immediately levy a debt on Haiti ...