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Merry Christmas from La Fortuna, Costa Rica! The past week has been at times quite funny and at times quite strange and stressful. First the funny. Last week, I sent a package to Alaska that cost 572 (Nicaraguan). I completely overwhelmed the system. Using stamps, the post office lady started with the lowest dominination (0.25) […]

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This past weekend, I think I finally met a person truly worthy of giving a talk at the TED conference.  Paulette Goudge is an amazing person that is really living out her ideals.  In a nutshell, she originally arrived in Nicaragua in the 1980´s during the revolution. Afterward, she adopted a war child, moved back […]

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My daily life is now settling into a fairly constant and new routine.  I usually wake up between 6-6:30 and study, eat breakfast, go to class between 8-12, eat/relax for an hour, participate in the school activity in the afternoon (1:45 – 5), eat some more, study (usually in a quiet bar along the beach), […]

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I have managed to place a handful of pictures from San Juan del Sur into the image gallery. I have to admit I am more than a bit confused trying get everything done with a windows machine – no gimp, no ftp, no this, no that. I am pretty lost without a linux box nearby. […]

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In just over a week’s time, I have I have logged a lot of airline miles.  Leaving Germany last Saturday morning, I have flown to Salt Lake City, driven to Salmon, Idaho, flown back to Denver, and finally onto Managua, Nicaragua.  I arrived yesterday in San Juan del Sur (the location of my Spanish school […]

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It has been a while since my last post and a lot has happened.  I have been extrememely busy finishing up my life in Germany and I am now in transit to Nicaragua.  I am now in Salmon, Idaho visiting my grandparents and I begin my journey to Nicaragua early tomorrow morning.  I hope to […]

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I spent a couple hours yesterday wandering through Glienick Park – my favorite park in Potsdam.  I really enjoy the fall season with all the different colors of the trees, the cool crisp mornings, and the smell of change. I took a few pictures with my new camera.  I have so much to learn about […]

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I saw this today at work and it struck me as fairly odd. A package of toilet paper that tells you in 20 different languages that it is just that, toilet paper. My guess is that if you are able to read any one (or more) of the 20 translations of “toilet paper”, you already […]

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