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I started this blog to keep my family and friends in the loop as I embarked on my year abroad studying in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico.
After gaining a decent readership, I am excited to re-initiate this blog with my adventures on Ometepe Island, Nicaragua.

I will leave on July 7th, 2008 at 12:55 am for Nicaragua and I have committed to spending 11 months there working as the Office Assistant for the Bainbridge-Ometepe Sister Islands Association (www.bosia.org). I am truly passionate about this opportunity because I have been a part of the Sister Islands relationship over the years as a delegate to Ometepe, a board member and a host family.

Please join me in this exciting year to come. I will probably write entries about every two weeks and try to include some photos. You can "subscribe" to the blog, which means you'll receive a notice whenever I add a new entry (make sure your email account will not block emails from webmaster@travelblog.org). Or you could just save the website and check back whenever you want. And I would absolutely love for anyone to leave "comments" or shoot me emails - I want to stay connected to everyone I care about :)

Hasta pronto,
Maggie

maggiepettit22@gmail.com

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By Maggie Pettit
July 25th 2008

Photos 1

Central America Caribbean » Nicaragua » Isla de Ometepe

First set of photos [View Full Entry]

By Maggie Pettit
July 10th 2008

Bienvenidos a Ometepe

Central America Caribbean

HELLLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOO! HOOOOOOOOLLAAAAAAAAAA! I have arrived. I am alive. This is the second time Ive been able to access the internet since ive been here on ometepe. somewhere between teh electricity, the internet, and the rain coming and going as they please upsets the whole balance of keeping in touch. we plan to put signs in all the internet cafes that use our internet server (that we inadvertently provide) signs that say never to upload photos or watch youtube.com... the internet fix it guy hung out at the office all day yesterday waiting for the power to come back on so he [View Full Entry]

By Maggie Pettit
May 17th 2007

...the end of a journey...

North America » Mexico » Chiapas » Comitán de Domínguez » Comitan de Dominguez

Map of Chiapas State, Mexico
The following photos are those which were included in the Appendix of my final paper.

Buenos dias a tod@s, Well, this will be my final blog of this great adventure. Yesterday I printed my final paper and tomorrow I will do my presentation to the group. I will arrive back in Seattle on Wed May 23 in the evening. I'm going to relax for about a week and then I'll start my summer internship with Farestart (www.farestart.org). I'll be living with my friend Meredith in Greenwood. Looking forward to a sunny seattle summer- lots of hiking, reading, working at farestart, and enjoying time with friends and family. I want to thank all of you for [View Full Entry]

Colored areas signify Economía Solidaria program region of microcredit coverage

Javier Inda, Coordinator Economía Solidaria

By Maggie Pettit
April 29th 2007

independent studying...

North America » Mexico » Chiapas » Comitán de Domínguez » Comitan de Dominguez

Edupaz office

hello from maggie's world! (sorry cameron. yes, i did copy and paste this from the email I sent you yesterday. hope you'll forgive me) well, here i am in a town called Comitan. yep, i abandoned San Cristobal because it just wasnt working out there and here everything just seemed to fall into place. i am doing my 1 month independent study project with an organization called Educacion para la paz (Edupaz) and in particular about their Economia Solidaria program which gives microcredit loans to small cooperatives and groups. So far i've interviewed an ecotourism cooperative, a coffee cooperative , [View Full Entry]

workshop group hanging out on lake beach

By Maggie Pettit
April 16th 2007

incredible oaxaca and transition to independent study

North America » Mexico » Oaxaca » Mazunte

conference on free media
i went to this conference in oaxaca that Gustavo Esteva organized about the role of media in the APPO uprising and the need for free media. In the center is Carmen Aristeyi, a mexican newscaster on C... [more]

We have been traveling around the state of Oaxaca for the last 3 weeks. We were in Oaxaca city for the first week, then we went into the mountains to stay in a village called Conulalpam. After that we came back to the city for a couple days before taking off for the coast of Oaxaca, to a beach town called Mazunte. At this moment I am back in San Cristobal, in Tierra Adentro in fact (where the zapatista encuentro was). I arrived today by bus and unpacked my things in my old host family's house. Now begins the Independent [View Full Entry]

By Maggie Pettit
March 31st 2007

Subcomandante Marcos and life in Oaxaca

North America » Mexico » Oaxaca » Oaxaca

Subcomandante Marcos and another comandante
Yes, I took this photo. We changed our plans and stayed two more days in San Cristobal (before leaving for Oaxaca) because we heard that on Sunday there would be a "encuentro" of the Zapatistas in Ti... [more]

Subcomandante Marcos and life in Oaxaca North America » Mexico » Oaxaca » Oaxaca By Maggie Pettit March 31st 2007 Maggie Pettit[url='/Videos/2461.html' onclick='dialog("/Videos/2461.html?popped=1","tbvideo",600,600);return false;'] Zapatistas entering TierrAdentroLets try the picture thing again. And something new - a very cool video! ;) more on oaxaca in the next blog... amazing place un abrazo, maggie [View Full Entry]

By Maggie Pettit
March 18th 2007

Mexico city for a week and Zapatistas for a night...

North America » Mexico » Chiapas » San Cristobal de las Casas

Teotihuacan ruins outside Mexico City

Hola todos y todas! So this time I thought i would mix things up a bit and let the photos do most of the talking(a.k.a. i am too lazy to write an entire journal entry). Dont be alarmed by the ski-masked indigenous people we're posing with, if you dont know too much about the Zapatistas, read more here they were very friendly and patient in answering all of our questions. We leave for Oaxaca on Friday and after we come back in april, we'll start our independent study projects! i'm thinking of doing my field study with a microcredit organization here [View Full Entry]

Host family in barrio Santo Domingo, Mexico City

By Maggie Pettit
March 2nd 2007

Phone, mail, and my current life in Mexico...

North America » Mexico » Distrito Federal » Mexico City

looks like san cristobal has boy scout troops too

Hola, buenos dias! If anyone feels so inclined to call, text message, or write to me, I would love to hear from you! My new mexican cell phone: 011-52-1-967-122-2379 011 is the international access code 52 is the country code for Mexico 1 is what you put in when calling a mobile phone in Mexico Mailing Address: (takes 2-3 weeks to arrive) Maggie Pettit c/o Antonio Canseco Centro Cultural Tierra Adentro Real de Guadalupe No. 24 CP 29200. San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chis Mexico And some random observations on life in San Cristobal.... -There are fireworks going off just about [View Full Entry]

a hike through parque ecologica Huitepec

yes, that is a life-size jesus in her living room

Mari, Amelia, and my host mom Magda making empanadas- they have them here too!

By Maggie Pettit
February 15th 2007

Buenos Dias from San Cristobal

North America » Mexico » Chiapas » San Cristobal de las Casas

Where I am right now!
This is Tierra Adentro, a cafe that also houses an indigenous women's cooperative of weavings and crafts, a gallery of local art, an ngo store of zapatista apparel, a independent bookstore, and a meet... [more]

I have arrived in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico! Yes, I was supposed to be studying in Oaxaca, but we received word on Christmas eve that the program would be held in San Cristóbal this semester due to the situation in Oaxaca (which is actually resolving as the 8,000 police troops of the Policía Federal Preventiva begin to leave the city). Luckily, our program (School for International Training - SIT) is at least somewhat mobile because we are not connected to any particular university here; we have seminars specialized to theme of Mexico Grassroots Development and Social Change, [View Full Entry]

By Maggie Pettit
December 14th 2006

final adventures in argentina...

South America » Argentina » Río Negro » El Bolsón

hello from el bolsón! i finished up with my exams on december 7 and i took off the next day for bariloche. i spent the night in bariloche where i ran into a girl from claremont mckenna college that i had a spanish class with freshman year...small world. the next day i took off for el bolsón and i have been here ever since! i wish i could post some of the amazing photos of the gorgeous landscape here, but i cant figure it out with the hostel computer. i did stay at a farm-hostel the first two days, and helped [View Full Entry]

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Photos 1

Bienvenidos a Ometepe

...the end of a journey...

independent studying...

incredible oaxaca and transition to independent study

Subcomandante Marcos and life in Oaxaca

Mexico city for a week and Zapatistas for a night...

Phone, mail, and my current life in Mexico...

Buenos Dias from San Cristobal

final adventures in argentina...