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All tagged Paraguay
Great news! The Escuela Agricola de San Francisco made it to the finals of the BBC World Challenge--a top social innovation competition! Now you get to vote to help them win!
Started classes on Tuesday. Yep. I'm still a freak. I love them. I'm intrigued by new classmates, excited by new opportunities and energized by the feeling of intellectual synergy that permeates campus the first week of classes.
I remember learning as a girl, perhaps significantly while building a fire, that fire needs 2 things to burn: fuel and oxygen.
I live in the Chaco. It’s a bone-rattling, deathly boring 12-hour bus ride from the middle of nowhere, but I’ve never felt more isolated by a mere 25-mile stretch of relatively well-maintained highway. Coming to the city is a bit disorienting for me.
I was there. Yesterday, Paraguay inaugurated its first democratically-elected president in more than 60 years.
These sweet sisters, in fact, this whole sweet ward thought they were meeting their future daughter-in-law! People were even asking me if we had a date yet. “Good question,” I wanted to say, “Have we even had a date yet!?”
Thank goodness for corporate types with money to throw around! The PWC folks are helping me make a first [slightly less complicated] attempt at freeing the puppets. [not cutting the strings per se, just giving them a chance to move themselves a little]
For an agricultural school with acres of huerta [vegetable gardens], we sure eat a lot of starch!
I was all excited until I started looking around and realized that fully two thirds of them COULDN’T READ IT! Aigh! Even the ones who could read it couldn’t understand the university-level research language it was written in. I think it’s fair to say I was bitterly disappointed.
Logically, most people call San Fransisco a “self-sustaining school” and what we’re working on is a plan to create more “self-sustaining schools.” But here’s the rub: a school is a thing, it is utterly incapable of sustaining itself. I feel like the school relies on students for work, nada mas.
