Archive for September, 2005
Here and there
As you probably know if you read this blog or know me, I was a volunteer before in an African country that had a very large rate of AIDS infection. The official rate was 30% but with the rate of testing and the number of people dying implied that the real rate of infection was […]
Posted by Marie on September 30th, 2005 under Uncategorized | Comment now »rain
We have been having abnormal amounts of rain here in El Salvador in the last week, partly due to the effects of Hurricane Rita and some other storm nearby. It has also been unseasonably cold, which resulted in (if you can believe) hail during the last rainstorm. The word rainstorm cannot really describe what happens […]
Posted by Marie on September 27th, 2005 under Uncategorized | Comment now »piropos
The men in El Salvador tend to throw piropos a lot at any woman who walks by. Piropos are usually lewd comments about the women, saying they’re beautiful or they they love the women, or comments on their bodies, etc. It’s like construction workers out of control. These women could be young or old or […]
Posted by Marie on September 23rd, 2005 under Uncategorized | Comment now »graven images
Along the same lines as the “three types of information” post previous, my next topic (graven images) comes from an essay in a “Best American Essays” book I picked up in the Peace Corps Office. Side note: I love the library at the Peace Corps office, there are so many good books here, books I […]
Posted by Marie on September 22nd, 2005 under Uncategorized | Comment now »three types of information
A Zimbabwean I knew used to like to tell me that there are three kinds of information about a person:
1. Information that everyone knows about you. Such as, your name, where you live, that you like strawberries and you have two siblings.2. Information that only you know about yourself. Such as, you wish […]
sounds of silence
It was indepence day last week here, the day when the Central American countries became independent from Spain. As is typical for independence day celebrations, there were lots of parades all over the country. I was visiting friends, and so we watched the parade in one of the larger cities outside of the […]
Posted by Marie on September 20th, 2005 under Uncategorized | Comment now »just like home
I visited a very rural site this past weekend, which reminded me of my site in Zimbabwe. The site was really really hot, quite poor, and the thing that reminded me most about my old site was that it was very hard to get to. It took us four hours to get out there with […]
Posted by Marie on September 18th, 2005 under Uncategorized | Comment now »Back from the future
I have been visiting as many friends as possible during the month that I have been at my ’site’. It’s funny, many (but not all) of my colleagues come to the capital for R&R, and I try to get out as much as possible. There are quite a few facets to this - […]
Posted by Marie on September 18th, 2005 under Uncategorized | Comment now »traveling lightly
When I was in Zimbabwe, my friend Theresa and I had a little competition between ourselves for packing lightly. We initially started travelling with tents and sleeping bags and plenty of changes of clothes, and as the two years wore on, we gradually weaned down to a small backpack containing shorts or long pants (depending […]
Posted by Marie on September 16th, 2005 under Uncategorized | Comment now »torment
On Tuesdays, I normally get a ride with my counterpart to the Peace Corps Office, which is near her house. I go there on Tuesdays because the office is a bit far from my house, but I need to collect my mail there, and it usually comes on Tuesdays. So once a week it is. […]
Posted by Marie on September 14th, 2005 under Uncategorized | Comment now »
- ceiling fan, and baby exercises
- baby competition
- z’s first concert
- yay obama
- my lame halloween costume
- Our little social … human
- I guess time really is money
- starting and stopping work
- talking about breasts
- fresh out of the oven
- my life as a stay-at-home mom
- updated pictures on flickr
- but I do believe in miracles
- our little o negative baby
- blamers and the nuclear family
- his feet look like mine
- pictures on flickr
- new baby in the house
- We just joined the “buy more sh&t” club
- tomato sandwiches
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