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Selling Bread

A woman goes door to door selling bread in Grenada, Nicaragua during the early morning hours.
Arroz de Maiz Fundraiser

Men's Soccer Team cooking a typical Guanacaste dish (Arroz de Maiz) as part of a fundraiser to purchase a new uniform. Solo good!
Para Kari Drinking Contest

Para Kari is a fermented drink made from Cassava. The process usually takes about half a day to make and the steps are long and have to be exact as some people use the 'bitter' Cassava which has doses of cyanide in the raw tuber. Contests are held every year with both men and women from several villages to see who can drink a pitcher the fastest. This years winner was from our village who has the call name 'Tubes'.
Jungle Calories

Most of what we eat in the jungle grows right outside. Take this breakfast, for instance: a delectable tea of Guayusa (a tree. support Guayusa growers from Ecuador by shopping for RUNA tea at Whole Foods..), a smashed plantain and a tree bean that only produces edibles one month of each year.
Coffee

is fruit. Picked from the tree, the coffee fruit is a welcome change from the everyday lollipop.
Bag it!

Coffee fruit, freshly picked and ready to be processed.
Gunane

Working in the groundnut field.
learning to build a fire in the bush

This woman was my Peace Corps trainer. We are on a village visit. She is teaching me how to build a fire from scratch in the bush to cook.
carlsberg brewery

This was the beginning of advertisement for Carlsberg brewery in Malawi. The local beer was called Chimbuku. Locals drank it in the courtyard behind the bar if the Carlsberg truck had not made it to town yet.
At the pump

My village was considered "wealty". We had a several solar pumps. They went on once a day for a few hours, and you would fill up as much as you could. This one my compund shared with 2 others, so we got it every third day.

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