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Jake in Paraguay: July 2011
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I'm Jake, a Peace Corps volunteer and ecologist working in agroforestry extension from September 2009 to December 2011. Thanks for reading about my big Paraguayan adventure! Today´s Post: We went to Perú. I encourage you, dear readers, to anticipate Jake in Paraguay’s return to Paraguay for just one more entry, as we take a brief detour for the second part of my vacation chronicle and make a brief visit to the Arequipa region of Perú. What would our trip to Perú have been without some botanizing? So my t...
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Jake in Paraguay: Aleema Sapopa Libro
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I'm Jake, a Peace Corps volunteer and ecologist working in agroforestry extension from September 2009 to December 2011. Thanks for reading about my big Paraguayan adventure! Today’s Post: I have read 150 books. I’ll save further commentary on The Brothers for its entry below and for my customary list of the 5-Star books of the last 50 I read, those masterpieces that stood out in terms of artistic achievement, readerly delight, or both:. The Untouchable (John Banville). Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell). In te...
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Jake in Paraguay: February 2011
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I'm Jake, a Peace Corps volunteer and ecologist working in agroforestry extension from September 2009 to December 2011. Thanks for reading about my big Paraguayan adventure! La Ajapova´ekue Che Arahaku Pytu´ura. Today´s Post: What I did over my Summer Vacation. 1 The fourth grade’s developmentally challenged kid crying out “sheep” when I asked for examples of aquatic ecosystems. 3 The day when my cabbage-induced farts causing an entire room full of fifth graders to run out of the classroom screaming.
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Jake in Paraguay: March 2011
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I'm Jake, a Peace Corps volunteer and ecologist working in agroforestry extension from September 2009 to December 2011. Thanks for reading about my big Paraguayan adventure! Itujama la Cuerpo de Paz. Today's Post: Peace Corps is Old. Just a brief and belated post today to celebrate 1 March 2011: the fiftieth anniversary of the Peace Corps. Read President Obama's proclamation here. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Itujama la Cuerpo de Paz. Secret Low Carb Diet Foods. My life of late.
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Jake in Paraguay: Producción Forestal Sustentable en Prettyview
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I'm Jake, a Peace Corps volunteer and ecologist working in agroforestry extension from September 2009 to December 2011. Thanks for reading about my big Paraguayan adventure! Producción Forestal Sustentable en Prettyview. Today’s Post: Sustainable Forest Production in Prettyview. I was asked to submit a narrative about my recent project with a farmers' committee for use in a Peace Corps newsletter. Here is the English translation of what I wrote! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Jake in Paraguay: August 2011
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I'm Jake, a Peace Corps volunteer and ecologist working in agroforestry extension from September 2009 to December 2011. Thanks for reading about my big Paraguayan adventure! Today´s Post: The Reader. This is the third and final article I submitted to the internal Peace Corps newsletter. It does repeat some of the content I´ve already written about in Jake in Paraguay, but I decided to post it as a sort of retrospective. 183;···. What did my compulsive data gathering reveal? The Cider House Rules (John Ir...
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Jake in Paraguay: December 2011
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I'm Jake, a Peace Corps volunteer and ecologist working in agroforestry extension from September 2009 to December 2011. Thanks for reading about my big Paraguayan adventure! Today's Post: I'm going shortly. With one day left before I fly home and. One Jew in Prettyview. The last several weeks have been packed with milestones and. They welcomed into their house in September 2009. Their trust and investment in me is something I can't ever pay back. It was, however, exciting to see the citrus trees ...Colle...
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Jake in Paraguay: May 2011
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I'm Jake, a Peace Corps volunteer and ecologist working in agroforestry extension from September 2009 to December 2011. Thanks for reading about my big Paraguayan adventure! Today´s Post: Let´s Go to Pombero´s House. But most exciting to me was our visit to a gigantic ombú (. Tree in Heather´s host family´s yard. A member of the toxic pokeweed genus, the ombú is native to. All I know is that I was enchanted by his home, as were my. Today's Post: Things that Make Me Happy. My Paraguayan mom is “guap...
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Jake in Paraguay: December 2010
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I'm Jake, a Peace Corps volunteer and ecologist working in agroforestry extension from September 2009 to December 2011. Thanks for reading about my big Paraguayan adventure! Today’s Post: I have read 100 books. In some ways…I now know that the appropriate response to a pig urinating on your foot during lunch is to gently discipline it with said appendage while complimenting the hostess on the newness of her mandioca.). I’m already well into “the second 100” (number 104 may be read and e...51 The Hobbit* ...