Archive for October, 2005
my neighborhood
My neighborhood is quite trendy, they say. It’s close to bohemian-type restaurants and happenin’ night life, and is relatively safe. I can get a multitude of city buses, I’m close to a grocery store, and in the words of another volunteer, there is hardly any dogpoop around. (This does not seem to be […]
Posted by Marie on October 31st, 2005 under Uncategorized | 1 Comment »those english speakers
Just before we finished training, the embassy security staff held a security session with us to talk about how to be safer in this country. They pointed out how dangerous it was - second most dangerous in the western hemisphere after Columbia, there’s a stat for you, but we knew it was a high-crime PC […]
Posted by Marie on October 31st, 2005 under Uncategorized | Comment now »make new memories
My BFF (Best Friend Forever) from kindergarten, Stacey, reads my blog with some regularity and comments on it to me from time to time. I like this aspect of my blog, it allows my buddies to keep up with what I am doing and some of them even send me an email from time […]
Posted by Marie on October 28th, 2005 under Uncategorized | Comment now »the races
There is an awful lot of graffiti around here, it seems mostly to be political. The other day I was walking and thought I saw some graffiti with a swastika — on closer inspection, though, I was mistaken. It led me to think that I hadn’t really seen any of them here. This […]
Posted by Marie on October 27th, 2005 under Uncategorized | 2 Comments »not waving but drowning
I have been trying to have a policy of not writing specifically about other people, either at my job here or in the PCV group, unless it fits into a story. However, I have been thinking about this woman a bit lately, and it’s more about the poem than her. One of the women […]
Posted by Marie on October 27th, 2005 under Uncategorized | Comment now »entertaining other people
So I was drinking the other night a while ago with some other volunteers. Always looking for diversion, my friends picked up my cell phone and looked through the list of names. Of course they stopped short at the simple entry “Boy”, and wanted to know details. Boy is a very old […]
Posted by Marie on October 26th, 2005 under Uncategorized | Comment now »employees at the opening
We had occasion last week where I work to hang around and chat with other employees for a while. It was actually an opening of sorts for one of our technology projects - all of us went out to a big hall, and representatives from more than 300 schools (multiple reps from each school) showed […]
Posted by Marie on October 24th, 2005 under Uncategorized | Comment now »chess
So, she said she was having a chess tournament and did I know how to play chess? I had played for quite a while years and years ago, but not for a long time. My friend in graduate school and I used to read chess strategy books and practice a few times a […]
Posted by Marie on October 23rd, 2005 under Uncategorized | 1 Comment »running water from the seventies
I visited a friend last weekend, to participate in a chess tournament (another post, soon). This was the second time I visited, and saw again the public washing tubs that were pointed out to me the first time I was there. Apparently there is a plaque on the structure that says they were […]
Posted by Marie on October 23rd, 2005 under Uncategorized | Comment now »my illegal activity
I have discovered two-dollar pirated DVDs. Apparently the laws are not quite as vigilantly enforced here. Some of these DVDs are copies of real DVDs, and some are actually videotaped (digitally?) in movie theatres, meaning the quality is quite poor. However, they all play very well on my laptop and can be played […]
Posted by Marie on October 20th, 2005 under Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
- 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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