http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/Nueva-Ginea/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Central America Caribbean , Nicaragua , Nueva Ginea en-us Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:02:13 BST Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:02:13 BST I have yet ANOTHER random adventure to relate. Yesterday I decided to take a walk by myself for a few hours and get to know Nueva Guineas back streets as I only have a few days left here. My boss had asked me to take some pictures of cultivos crops for an article about Nueva Guinea that will be appearing in a local bulletinmagazine next month. So I used that as an excuse to take the aftern http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/Nueva-Ginea/blog-77741.html Something that has been an ongoing preoccupationinterest to me is the FOOD here. Or more precisely the UNPROCESSED foodstuffs. I mean we never get to see what our food looks like before it arrives prepackaged on our grocery store shelves precooked beans corn and peas are to us available in tins readytoeat vanilla comes in liquidform in a pretty little bottle ready to be used in va http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/Nueva-Ginea/blog-74090.html The past few days I have had some pretty cool experinces possibly some of my favourite since I arrived It began on Saturday when I accompanied a neighbour of mine to her organic farm and learned how to make organic fertilizer. There is a lot more to it than just composting and putting cow manure on the plants it is in fact a very time consuming and elaborate process to ensure that the fertil http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/Nueva-Ginea/blog-70445.html I have had some interesting expereinces at the various Churches of Nueva Guinea. Nueva Guinea was founded by a Baptist pastor in the 1970s so it has highly Evangelical roots apparently one of the only cities in the country that is predominantly Evangelical as opposed to Catholic. Although I have noted the predominance of the Evangelical church in the Nicaraguan culture here in general as opp http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/Nueva-Ginea/blog-69519.html Unfortunately I havent been able to write recently due to a combination of the fact that I have for once been extremely busy with work and the fact that the power keeps going out Blackouts here are an everpresent problem. This issue lends itself to an interesting debate over the privatization of formerly public services such as power privatized and water soon to be privatized if the N http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/Nueva-Ginea/blog-64105.html Well today is officially the ONE MONTH mark of my arrival in Nicaragua. Things have started to normalize a bit for me so that I no longer feel the need to write a blog every 2 seconds about all of the new and exciting things that are happening. New and exciting has given way to regular and routine which I have to admit I prefer Looking back I can see that each week here has corresponded http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/Nueva-Ginea/blog-61745.html After recieveing a request from a friend for more information about what Im actually DOING here in Nicaragua I thought Id fill in some details. Somehow that seemingly obvious detail of mentioning why Im here in the first place managed to escape me what with the culture shock roaches etc So...what AM I doing here The past little while I have been asking myself that very question. You s http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/Nueva-Ginea/blog-60715.html Since the last journal entry concerning Puerto Cabesas we then proceeded to travel to a small town called El Ayote. Actually I dont even know that Ayote should qualify as a town its a tiny holeinthewall outoftheway place in the middle of the mountains in Nicaraguas Southern Atlantic Region RAAS. It consists of a few muddy roads lined with sagging little buildings that look like http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/Nueva-Ginea/blog-59642.html So much has happened in the past week that Im really at a loss as to what to say. Last Wednesday I was feeling sick so Juliana made me stay home and rest. I think it was a good idea. because after a lot of sleep I felt much better. I decided to go outside and wait on the front porch until Juliana got home from the University as we were to travel by bus to Managua later that evening. As I sat http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/Nueva-Ginea/blog-58721.html