Archive for August, 2006
Manualidades
Manualidades
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Ruth Perez, a Nicaraguan librarian from the San Juan del Sur Biblioteca Movil demonstrates craft projects (”manualidades”) for teachers at the Tipitapa learning center.
New books for Tipitapa
New books for Tipitapa
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Jane Mirandette shows a new book to two women working on crafts at the educational center in Tipitapa. The center, which now features a small lending library using Jane’s model, is sponsored by Wisconsin Nicaragua Partners. The center teaches a variety of skills, including handicrafts.
“A” is for “ala”
"A" is for "ala"
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Heidy Perrera demonstrates the creation of a phonetic alphabet to help promote literacy. During the grand opening for the Chinendega lending library, librarians from the San Juan del Sur Biblioteca Movil led educational workshops for area librarians.
New books
New books
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Two children from Chinendega read one of the new books that will be part of the lending library.
Ribbon Cutting Ceremony, Chinandega
Ribbon Cutting Ceremony, Chinandega
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Inauguration of the new lending library at Chinandega.
La Biblioteca de Chinandega
On driving in Nicaragua
Since we’ve been traveling around the country over the last few days, we’ve had plenty of opportunities to observe Nicaraguans on the road. Everyone knows the road hazards in Boston: few street signs, snow and ice, massive traffic jams, the occasional two ton big dig ceiling panel. But these things pale in comparison to [...]
Montamos en caballo
Montamos en caballo
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Montamos en caballo
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Victoria and I atop our horses during our horseback riding trip near San Juan del Sur, Wednesday, August 16, 2006.
Los talleres
Thursday was the day of our ANIBIPA (Nicaraguan national library association) workshops in Managua. We were looking forward to this, if only to have them out of the way. But it was a worthwhile experience in many ways.
We worked all day the day before on our presentations, and worked most of the night as well. [...]
La primera vez en la biblioteca movil
La primera vez en la biblioteca movil
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Yesterday was our first time out on a bookmobile run with the Biblioteca Movil. More on this later, but it was a fascinating and rewarding experience — both for us and for students at the three schools we visited in the countryside. The two students on [...]
