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Cuenca-stic Times!
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 7 November 2009
By Zal Bilimoria, KF9, Ecuador Over the past four weeks here in Ecuador, I’ve had the opportunity to see much of the country, starting out in Quito working at Fundacion ESPOIR’s administrative office, and now in Portoviejo near the coast to conduct borrower verifications and write journal updates, among other tasks. Since Ecuador is a relatively [...]
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Group Post, Travel Horror Stories. Me first, then you. An Ecuadorian Tale.
Blog: Bearshapedsphere - 23 September 2009
Bearshapedsphere and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad, long-lasting voyage. With an invitation to group post at the end.
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“Please, take me home in your backpack…”
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 14 July 2009
By Cynthia McMurry, KF8, Ecuador Everyday conversations with people in Cuenca provide countless anecdotes of people whose families have been separated by emigration. Everyone seems to have family in the US or Spain, if not a spouse then a brother, sister, cousin or child. At a group meeting last week, a borrower joked that she’d like [...]
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US loses at soccer, and it's all my fault
Blog: Bearshapedsphere - 29 June 2009
Here's a blog entry in which the author (per usual) vastly overestimates her importance in the world.In the interest of full disclosure, here is a bilingual list of exactly how important sports are to me:not at allnot a whitbarelyun cominoun puchoun carajo(where the last three in Spanish basically mean a cumin seed, a cigarette butt, and a damn, in descending order of politeness).
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