Archive for November, 2005
being in the center
In my Thanksgiving post, I made a comment differentiating between people who “live in El Salvador” like the Embassy folk, as opposed to people who are “living like Salvadoreans”, like Peace Corps Volunteers. Implication being, of course, that since I am living poor like the majority of Salvadoreans, I’m somehow helping more. Shortly after I […]
Posted by Marie on November 29th, 2005 under Uncategorized | Comment now »connected to the world, part 2
Over the weekend, I was exited about being connected to the world, and was asked in response if being connected made it harder to do what I need to do here. Besides the fact that I am more connected to my loved ones, as my sister-in-law pointed out, I think that the fact that I […]
Posted by Marie on November 29th, 2005 under Uncategorized | 1 Comment »connected to the world
When I was in Zimbabwe with the Peace Corps, I went just before this thing called the World Wide Web was used with any regularity. Before I left, there was Gopher and NCSA Mosaic. And, in two years, the computing world as I knew it changed. I spoke on the phone to my […]
Posted by Marie on November 26th, 2005 under Uncategorized | 2 Comments »thanksgiving in little america
In many countries, the Peace Corps arranges for well-off American families to take in Peace Corps Volunteers (who are, obviously, not so well-off) for the Thanksgiving holiday. El Salvador is no exception, and various groups of us went to the nice neighborhoods in town and pretended, at least for a day, that we were […]
Posted by Marie on November 25th, 2005 under Uncategorized | Comment now »fijateque
Before coming to the Peace Corps, I searched for all I could on El Salvador and Peace Corps El Salvador. PCES volunteers have created an unofficial web site, readily findable through Google, and it is called www.fijateque.net. I had no idea what fijateque meant, and actually thought it sounded like a Japanese camera […]
Posted by Marie on November 23rd, 2005 under Uncategorized | 1 Comment »be yourself no matter what they say
Which is a line from “An Englishman in New York“, by Sting. I listened to it regularly the first time I crossed a culture, to Zimbabwe. The song also contains the line: “It takes a gentleman to suffer ignorance and smile”.
I had a rough week last week, and I think it had a […]
the problem with urban transport
I visited the Museum of Arte in San Salvador and laughed out loud at the the third photo on the linked page to Cesar Menendez’s works, called Problema del Transporte Urbano. I don’t think it is supposed to be funny, it’s about the lack of transport in the capital during the war and how […]
Posted by Marie on November 20th, 2005 under Uncategorized | Comment now »my madrinas
My eyes aren’t really brown, they tell me, they have little bits of yellow and green in them too. The beans and rice I bring to eat for lunch need a little more cumin. And I should continue wearing those form-fitting pants so that my parts are shown to advantage. And did […]
Posted by Marie on November 19th, 2005 under Uncategorized | Comment now »thinking about Romero
There was a very famous archbishop Romero who spoke for the people during the war - the voice for those without a voice. It is my understanding that he at first tried to remain neutral in the conflict, only for the people, but ended up on the left, against the government. To oversimplify the situation, […]
Posted by Marie on November 18th, 2005 under Uncategorized | 1 Comment »hotbed of liberalism
Well. It seems as though I have found the liberal contingent in San Salvador, on the other side of town. A friend and I were at the UCA (University of Central America) this week for commemorations of the slaying of Jesuit priests in 1989, and I’ll let Tim and others talk about that. […]
Posted by Marie on November 17th, 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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