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to receive a reduced retirement allowance in order to provide a
benefit to a named beneficiary. The five optional settlements in
this law are the same as those available to members of the Public
Employees' Retirement System and the Teachers' Pension and Annuity
law also provides that within six months of its effective date,
a retired JRS member may elect an optional settlement which will
be applicable to the member's retirement allowance payable after
the election is made.
options, which allow JRS members to reduce their retirement allowance
to provide benefits to a named beneficiary, are in addition to the
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law would allow units of local governments (municipalities, counties,
authorities, school boards, etc.) to issue refunding bonds to retire
the unfunded accrued liability of the local units owed to the State's
various pension systems created through the granting of early retirement
benefits to employees of the local unit. Refunding bonds may be
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for employees affected by consolidation agreements authorized by
Chapter 59, P.L. 1999. The adoption and issuance procedures would
be the same as procedures that exist under current law for the issuance
of refunding bonds by the local unit.
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in excess of the cumulative maximum contributions allowed under
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the approval of the employer and the agreement of the employee.
If the employee dies during the period of continued employment,
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comparable benefits to those eligible employees.
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and electing State autonomous authorities will be added to their
accrued liability and funded pursuant current pension laws governing
unfunded accrued liabilities. Cash payments to ABP members will
be made by the State colleges and universities.
Director of the Division of Pensions and Benefits is required to
report annually for five years to the Joint Budget Oversight Committee
on the aggregate costs and savings resulting from the enactment
of this substitute.
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January 9, 2003.
Date: January 9, 2003, and is retroactive to January 1, 2000.
This law revises
the statute authorizing municipalities to pay pensions to the widow
and minor children of local volunteer personnel who die in the course
of volunteer service.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61151519966151702072015-09-16T18:16:44.915-04:00the paraguayan reveriepeace corps journal of an environmental education volunteer in paraguay, south america.lindseyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115151996615170207.post-44266212361621806662011-04-28T21:44:00.004-04:002011-04-28T22:20:24.320-04:00Although this year is only, well, a third over, I still keep finding myself looking back and reminiscing on the past. The only problem is that I only vaguely remember the details, and even what I´ve got recorded is murky, like trying to feel ocean waves through a polaroid.

It´s been a busy day of presenting and chatting. In the morning I´d hoped to be able to go to a planning meeting for an Urban Forest project with the Paraguayan society of landscape architects(!)in the old center of Asunción at 8am, but it just so happened that I was also supposed to be an hour and a half away presenting at 8:30. There is hardly ever something I have to be on time for in this country, so of course the one day I can´t be late to a presentation something interesting comes up. In any case, after getting to the training center and everything, making my presentations and trying to be real about it, i come and get in touch with the group´s president and met her later in the afternoon. We worked a few things out about the project, I color in a map to figure out where we´re going to be canvasing the blocks and IDing trees, and take off. Pretty good meeting, no drama, opportunity is in the air r r.

I´ll be a bit honest about my extension with Senatur - it almost feels like an excuse to get to work on design projects with people and then justify it as creating touristic products, like I have some kind of secret ulterior motive even though Im following just what I laid out in my project plan. Maybe im just surprised that I´m actually doing what I´ve wanted to get myself into all this time. It´s gratifying.

What is annoying me a little are people who question my motives for still being in Paraguay. Yes, I would like to be making more money for god´s sake. Yes, things about Paraguay drive me nutso (like those horrid ATM lines) but things in the states also rubbed me the wrong way, like how I was always broke. At least here, even if im not making a ton each month in real cash i can spend, I´m still getting $350 put away every month that i get in one nice, tax free cheque once im all done. That´s not too shabby, given that my idea this point of a lot of cash for a monthly paycheck is about $300usd. This of course is with no car, no luxury vacations, and no clothes buying. Just good food and good times.

I really can´t say that I´m in need, I don´t feel poor. But by US standards im making peanuts. Is it so wrong that I dont care? Id rather be doing what I want to do and be paid equitably than do something I hate 2/3 of my waking life and get paid like a king. That money would turn sour really quick. I wish more people could experience the liberation from... well just buying stuff, buying as therapy, buying themselves illusions of happiness. There is more out there, and while things may not be perfect for me in Paraguay, i´m glad to be finding out what´s really important while i´m here.

xoxolindseyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115151996615170207.post-17216379214341109172011-04-06T23:43:00.002-03:002011-04-07T00:10:14.858-03:00revisiting the volunteering experienceUnbeknownst to me, an entire year has passed since I was last mulling over the ethics of candy bar purchases in the states, and looking forward to another full year here in Paraguay. Little did I know at the time, that one year would merge into two and I would find myself smack in the middle of territory few have chosen to cross into: a fourth year as a Peace Corps volunteer.

I suppose I could go back and recount what happened in 2010... lets see if I can sum it up in one paragraph.

I worked for an environmental NGO that focused on reforestation projects and environmental education, but aside from growing vast numbers of trees had little experience in either said focus. This led me to believe, and propose, and work through a year of project management, 16 different projects and a few thousand trees distributed. At the tail end, I helped design a plaza for a school for the blind with two other NGOs and inched closer to finishing an environmental education manual. Paraguay, again, was the most attractive option for work. Also, it has become more of my home than I readily admit, so I made it my business to extend my service as a volunteer once again, but this time into the field of tourism development, with the general goal of getting a few real design projects underway.

Nutshell. No drama, cut and dry. Life was not like this paragraph (aka short and pithy) but condensing a years worth of living in a meaningful way is as hard as trying to figure out which culture I presently belong to. So I´m just not going to go there for the time being, and jump right into the present.

As I sit in front of my computer screen, working away on price lists and construction documents, I see that I´m getting what I set myself up for this year: time consuming, eyelid drooping, callus-on-my-wrist from too much AutoCAD and 3dsMAX, design work. No joke, its rewarding in non-monetary ways, thank god, seeing people get closer to realizing their image of an improved environment or better public space, but man. I am tired. This 24/7 volunteer lifestyle is...well, its not easy i know that much. I still want to do so much that I push myself too hard, even with culturally appropriate siestas and breaks. As in everything, balance is essential. I´m hoping to find some pretty soon, just need to finish these construction docs first...

xoxolindseyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115151996615170207.post-67160739100824876802010-01-18T00:23:00.003-03:002010-01-18T00:47:42.982-03:00Although typing a post while im here in the US seems a little contrary to the content of this blog up till now, I feel like i should put down for posterity how strange it is being back here.

Week1: I was trying really hard to not speak spanish to people but it didnt always work. Random words like "verdad" or "y" kept popping out of my mouth. Everything seemed strange: the size of cars, the voices on TV, parking lots, snack foods, the way people talked about things that they felt mattered in the context of their lives. Even the decor of restaurants or a chair i might have been sitting in made me feel like id been dropped into some kind of weird dream land. People complained about little things, threw away perfectly good food, sat in front of the football game. Constantly on display for groups of moderately curious people and relatives who asked things like "so how's Paraguay? Is it nice there?" I was freaking out.

Week2: Things seemed more normal, but driving in a car everywhere was getting progressively stranger. Seems like the only people walking the street were the homeless guys lining up in front of the church across the street for food at dinnertime. Parking lots still seemed horribly strange, huge wastelands of asphalt with stunted trees. I wont lie, i like being able to stand in front of a heater for long periods of time and to have everything at the push of a button. But everything seemed to not shine so much, to be a little less real, more effort than substance. Again, I am at a loss to explain what this really means.

Week3: More normal feeling these days, driving in a car feels normal again. Visited the desert which screwed with my head a bit, in that people will voluntarily go out of their way to visit a place where no one naturally would ever find themselves. I bought food in a supermarket for the first time, and was scared by the vegetable washer/sprayers above the produce. All the apples were very shiny, the bananas looked like plastic. I just touched things, not really knowing what to choose. I bought a key chain compass that i thought was very overpriced at 6 dollars, seeing that i could buy a really good meal at a restaurant in PY for that much. I find myself comparing everything in my head, not wanting to spend anything if i can help it. I wonder if this tendency will go away, or if its a good thing that i think twice before buying a candy bar?

more to come..lindseyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115151996615170207.post-8546339923930355232009-11-06T14:53:00.007-03:002009-11-06T16:23:01.882-03:00Back again, its quite hot and muggy here. The kind of heat you cant escape from even with a fan - the humidity kills. Anywho, i finnaly ran the fourth and last design workshop for the highschool project here. We had about 35 people which was a huge turnout, much more than i was expecting to have to deal with.

I had the parents and students form groups and go over the second design proposal package and answer yes or no questions as to whether they liked certain aspects of each design. In contrast to the last time where making comments was optional, people had to be direct with what they wanted in order to give me a clear direction for the design to come. It really came down to ordering the drawings correctly and getting them to respond to specific, written prompts connected to the drawings. Telling people that they have the option to express their opinions doesnt work here, it has to almost be made obligatory, otherwise no one says anything, or they just copy everyone elses ideas. Thus, the yes or no questions such as "do you like the idea of having benches here?" and so forth.

Were hoping to package this thing up and use it as a tool to keep people in the ministry of education up to date on whats going on. At this point tho, it seems that their assistance isnt going to be super necessary next year at least considering that we heard today that a local NGO is going to build another classroom in the coming year. Yay!

Preliminary work continues on the planning for the design of the Instituto Libre; I
really need to square away the objectives of the owner before starting to fire off stuff he isnt into. I believe i heard him talking about gardens and how landscapes have to potential to help people culture themselves..

Im hoping to come back to CalPoly during my january home leave and maybe do a presentation or two in the landscape arch department. Not sure how that might fit in with what theyve got goin on over there these days, but theres no harm in asking.

Uff, this heat really is draining. The rest´ll have to wait till later.lindseyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115151996615170207.post-81675046334925097162009-10-02T14:19:00.003-04:002009-10-02T14:44:29.881-04:00Welllll, here I am in Caacupe again killing time until a bus can take me back home. So whats the news..

Ive been cleared by Peace Corps Washington for a third year of service, and will start to cycle that up in a very short while. Im still trying to define exactly what im going to be accomplishing, as making headway within the gobernacions office of environment has been a challenge. The secretary of environment in this department doesnt seem to bee super interested in helping me realize something that i can hold in my hand, but is perfectly content chatting me up about various enviro topics. This is nice, but ive had two years of circular conversations now (to generalize) and im interested in things more or less moving in some kinda of direction. Teaching people about how to use and value their natural resources has to happen better here, and it can. Its just going to be a question of finding the right people to work through. I also met the director of SEAM (secretaria del medio ambiente) at the country level, and he talked so fast in so may directions that before I could get something out to add to the discussion hed jumped to another topic. Least i got his card.

Working with some of the students at the Universidad Nacional should start to be fruitful relativly soon as im begining to help a group of them with some design work. Ive got nothing to loose really, in fact i have a whole lot more to gain by making good connections with these people. I met the uncle of one of the students yesterday while we were at his house talking about a redesign of the grounds and he offered me a free house to stay in for my next year in Caacupe if i wanted it. Just like that, perfect.

Design work on the colegio is goin kinda slow, or actually its presently not going. Mostly for lack of time on my part, and the lack of desire to push my days into the evening with material preparation on top of what ive already got floating around on my desk.

Socially things are going really well, as ive been having a great time seeing one of the teachers outside of school for lunches and trips and such. Shes great - its made things seem even brighter than they already do.

As i type this i cant help but feel physically really really tired. Two days of waking up at 430 to ride in a bus for two hours on a cobblestone road has been draining, and im gonna be doing it again tomorrow and the next day too. I almost just want to move to caacupe already and start to develop my work here. I love the campo dont get me wrong, but its just time for a change. Im sick of being so isolated, sick of the students and teachers sticking themselves in my buisness, and pretty much over getting shorted by profesionals because as of yet my spanish isnt perfect. Of course once i move i dont expect it to be perfect, but the context will be completly different the poeple different and hopefully more rich. After all, i can still visit the campo for fiestas, i just wont have to deal with the daily anoyances of living within that world.

I dont want to make this a bitch fest, because i feel happier now that I have for my whole time here. I just need a nap. now off to that bussssslindseyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115151996615170207.post-42084037282397018462009-09-08T13:38:00.001-04:002009-09-08T14:13:08.817-04:00here in asuncion gettin ready to go to my close of service conference, which means two days in a super nice hotel with free food and a break from teachin. Sounds good to me!lindseyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115151996615170207.post-23867125980097502092009-08-30T17:09:00.002-04:002009-08-30T17:48:45.548-04:00high time for an update id say. After more than two months of finagling and tweaking my way through projects and into some interesting work, id say im quite content with the way just about everything is progressing. Well, that is to say everything that Im really invested in. As a recap:

I ran my third design workshop using the site planning work and survey information collected in the first and second round. Activities included linkage diagrams for major site elements (soccer pitch, entrance, classrooms, etc) and their supporting elements. People ended up agreeing on a pallate of things that needed to be included for each major elements (for example: shade, water access, seating, etc for soccer area) and diagramed it out. Then using a packet of proposals i drew out for each of the areas, the groups came to concensus on their favorite drawing and modified it to fit their interests. We then voted collectivly as a whole workshop for which proposals to go ahead with. This has left me with a pretty clear direction for my final proposal drawings which i hope to have completed by december. My work contacts are already getting some milage out of the drawings, having shown them to people at the ministry of education to get funding. Seems to have worked. Guess those five years at Poly did teach me something? haha.

The school now has electricity hooked up, all the desks and furniture, and a promise from a local NGO to build the next classroom in the following year. I hope they follow our proposal! Regardless, being where i am now its a load off my mind, thats for sure.

On a lighter note, im still beating my head against the apathy of certain teachers at the highschool, and have honestly given up on changing their points of view. Im just focusing on what i can do with the students at this point. The seniors will be presenting their investigations on natural resource use and conservation this Wendsday to prep us for community projects to finish out the year.

The school tree nursery now has about 400 seedlings in bags growing and ready to be transplanted at the end of the year. At least helping them run the project and providing the tech knowlege has produced some tangible results. And the frost didnt kill the trees, which is always nice.

Leadership traning and workshops at the other highschool are going well, with the students set to interview the community at large this week with a form we created at the last teacher meeting. I bet about half of them do it, haha, we shall see.

Biggest news for me by far is that ive made a formal work proposal to an NGO that runs reforestation projects here in Paraguay for the comming year. All signs look good from Peace Corps and the NGO that ill get the go ahead, so Im super stoked. Itd mean another full year working on developing their environmental educaiton program, working with highschools across the southern half of the country to implement arborization projects and the like. And i get to live in a town. And have running water every day, and buses that run without fail at all times of the day. Id like that. As part of the program ill get to come home for a month on quasi-paid leave and then return for my year of service. Thanks taxpayers.

With the end of my second year fast approaching, i find myself sitting sometimes and considering where Ive come to after all this time spent fumbling along. I wish somethings had been different, but on the whole ive accoplished most of what id originally set out to do. I think. I certainly dont care so much anymore about whether what ive done and am doing would be considered succesful by other people, just so long as I feel satisfied with the effort i put into it.

Take last week for example. There was an impromptu teacher assembly and the director asked me to run something with the students for about an hour and a half. Luckily id done some leadership stuff and and an activity with the other colegio in the morning so I repeaterd it, the major difference being the 45 or so 15 to 19 year olds with no teacher supervision (except me) as opposed to the 25 in the morning with two teachers assisting. So i ran my stuff, and the activity bombed. Everyone gave up and just stoped doing what they were supposed to be doing and started yelling at each other. The topic was about conflict resolution and compromise, but none of that actually happened, so instead of talking about how well the activity went we just talked about why it failed and what was missing. So still a success, kinda, even though it really didnt work out like it was supposed to.

And so its getting dark and ive got a half hour bike ride back home so Id better get on with it. Till next time!lindseyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115151996615170207.post-48510218982713755902009-05-08T15:38:00.004-04:002009-05-08T16:11:41.240-04:00well shoot, i missed cinco de mayo. Now ive missed my one and only reason to drink tecate here in paraguay. Ill survive. Big news here is that it actually rained last night, something that hasnt been happening very much this year. Someone told me today that Paraguay has gotten 80% less rainfall than whats considered normal. So hopefully we keep gettin showers n things so people can dig in the groud to get at their crops. Its honestly pretty rough.

On my end, things have become a bit uncertain with the recent uphevals in the Paraguayan educational system. Seems the government has this decentralization scheme that amongst other things would repalce a portion of teachers salaries with food scrip to be used at super markets. Of course no one wants that, given that the government would probably end up not having money to cover their "oficial" scrip and then people would have all this worthless money.

Starting monday, all teachers are on strike. And this leaves me with a bit of a hole in my schedule..

Im workin on the background info for my design workshop at the end of this month. I think its going ok. Collected responses from the seventh through first year colegio students about their preferences for a part of the property to be developed. Now ive got to synthesize what they wrote into a few design alternatives so as to make a firm decision about the future of the place. And i really need to start drawing, ive seriously been feeling like ive had some kind of block against just sitting down and sketching out some ideas.

I guess ive just been realizing that the things i put together shouldnt just be random, they need to be guided by the people who will eventually be using the space. I can help them to order their ideas and make sense of the space, but I need to know what they want first. I guess this is my block, that im no longer willing to just throw stuff together and sell it, because if i do that no one will listen to me. I havnt been hired, im just an advocate. I have to involve people at every step in the process if i want it to progress, even though itd be way easier to just pump ideas out of my head and have them choose from the results. Merh. We shall see.lindseyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115151996615170207.post-78252116085468284402009-05-03T10:56:00.004-04:002009-05-03T11:28:46.274-04:00this past week has been a bit of an introspective one for me, after I realized that to some extent ive become disalusioned with my work here. Im busy, but havnt really been feeling like ive been accomplishing my goals to the extent to which i thought i would be at this point. Then i kinda realized that id never actually written down what my goals were in the first place, and i was getting upset without actually having a firm reason to be doing so. SO i wrote them down. Its been helpful to actually think hard about these things once in a while instead of just floating along in a semi-dissatisfied state.

I just finised up having students at the church draw pictures of their ideal grounds so the comision can have some idea of what the kids are thinking when we actually sit down and run their design workshop.

I also planned out the schedule and actuvities for my next design workshop for the colegio and hope to have it the last weekend in may. Lets see how that goes.

Ive also decided that I want to write a how to guide for participatory deisgn in Paraguay. Many of the volunteers here are faced with projects that by necesity require some designing (new buildings, fields, churches, tree planting, etc) and the resources people corps has to give to volunteers so they can tackle these projects is limited. So, in order to help form another tool to help Peace Corps´s push to integrate participation into our work, I hope to get a little extension to my service and get this design guide squared away, using my projects as case studies. If nothing else, at least it´ll be a good start to my thesis work.

AND im taking the GRE. Not like im really planning on going to grad school right after leaving here, but its better just to cover my bases all the same.

Thats about it for now, hope everyone out there´s enjoying the sunday!lindseyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115151996615170207.post-38304490263862160802009-04-28T08:50:00.002-04:002009-04-28T10:56:45.568-04:00so as to not leave another month without an update or peep of anything, i thought id give a run down of the things im presently finding myself involved in these days. I take a deep breath now, actually, because thinking about my work has been making me a bit stressed out, but here goes anyway.

Ive been working with a local NGO based in the capital of my department to bring trees and a bit of technical support to my site so as to enable them to plant trees in various public spaces in the surrounding area. The only problem is that right now its not raining when it should have been raining for the last three months, and the groud fairly resembles a solid sheet of rock. SO while we wait, the students slowly forget about watering their trees, interest in the project slides and i feel defeated by factors beyond my control.

Moving right along, ive been helping a comission in charge of the local church make decisions regarding the future expansion of their grounds and building. Weve started at the very very basic, just defining what theyd like to change, why, and the time frame for accomplishing what they like to see happen. This has been interesting in terms of working with people to organize their thoughts and seeing the methods that work to push people towards cohesive goals. Its been frustrating dealing with my language still in this respect tho. In terms of explaining why planing is necessary and fighting to understand the nuances of the conversations that happen between people in the meet its been very challenging.

At the colegio a whole other host of things has been transpiring with the seniors and my quest to get them to actually complete their homework. It seems kinda trivial writing it like this, but when a whole week revolves around depending on a group of people to collect data for a project with deadlines, and they dont do it.. its kinda a bummer. We shall see if they actually complete the work. If they do they they really stand to actually educate the community about itself in addition to completing an interesting piece of work. But like most things i do here, in the end success isnt up to me. Its up to them.lindseyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115151996615170207.post-27463171041595403912009-03-14T15:28:00.004-04:002009-03-14T16:06:58.708-04:00alrighty, back for another update after a slight period of inactivity on the web, and a rather confusing stint of action on this side of the globe. My mentioning of teachers not really wanting to get back into gear this year seems to have certainly come full circle to bite me a bit, as now i feel pulled in way more directions (both in site and out) than i previously considered possible. This is a bit vague, let me try to explain a bit.

Ive begun to work primarily at the colegio with the teachers, who coincidentally want to start actually planning something to implement at the school. Im not used to this. Im used to people just wanting to talk a bit, and then gradually drop off leaving one maybe two interested people who will actually want to do work with me. This year its started out with maybe one or two interested for real, and then about half of the rest of them jumping on board, expecting me to integrate their classes and material into the general projects for the colegio. phew. So whats making my head feel a little bit like its going to explode is trying to figure out how to integrate seventh through ninth graders as well as seniors into an institutional project focused around nutrition and gardens, with the end goal of implementing it in the houses of the community. Im being looked to as somewhat of a leader in this, which is fine, but i feel a little like im being a bit thrown out to see how far ill go with the work before i cant string myself out anymore.

Second project involves the all the highschool classes, and must integrate every subject into the completion of one project, in this case being a school vivero (tree nursery) with the end goal of selling the trees and thus making the project able to continue into the next year without outside funding. This is the one thats making my head spin a bit, as ive been trying to conceptualize how to make a tree nursery fit in with a completly unrelated topic, like spanish composition. I mean, sure, i can make the kids write an essay about the utility of trees or something, yeah. But i have a sneaking suspicion that the teachers are going to treat me how they normal do and expect me to take over and instruct their classes while they go outside and talk on their cell phones. This i cant do in this case, and am mentally preparing myself to explain to them (when this happenes) that i cant help them unless they help me.

Third project revolves around the seniors and preparing them for their adult futures which are rapidly aproaching. This work mostly revolves around goal and objective setting, in addition to exploration of their communities to really understand where they are coming from before they decide what kind of changes they have to make for the final two month senior project, WHICH is also brand new and ive recenly realized that i may end up planning with the teachers. Id kinda like this, actually. Senior projects are fun times for ding what you really want to do, which is the whole point of the method of teaching ive been trying to employ with the seniors.

Fourth project revolves around helping the teachers to actually acheive what they write down in their project plans, making and keeping to calenders and schedules in addition to holding their students acountable. Very american, but they are very profesional people and are interested enough to actually listen to me as a group, which at least says that i have their attention to a certain extent.

Fifth project is the colegio design.. im sitting on four very competent preliminary site programs created in the workshop waiting for the opertune moment for my brain to swing into action. Its coming.

Sith, the oratorio design taller which is tomorrow. Im nearly ready with my ideas for the material, but i may be facing another all nighter to swing it through. Nothing like putting it all on myself at the last minute to get it done...

Seventh, the library pedido and planning, which is now done after five hours of work with my buddy hugo.

There are other things too, like students challenging me in class or profesores telling me that i lie about where im going to be, that make things hard right now. But as i typically tell myself, this isnt any different from the pressure i might be feeling were i back in the states. Its just that here, no one is telling us really that we are doing good work, and when we talk about project with other volunteers it typically, with the exception of good friends, turns into a spitting contest. So i guess that leaves me here, on the blog.

I dont mean to sound overly worked up, things are great in other areas of my life, actually, and im feelin really happy. You know, smiling and such. So yep, its still hard like usual, but nothing that i cant handle when the doses are small and the breakdown is clear. Now.. time for taxes.lindseyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115151996615170207.post-48572933461198673972009-02-27T18:37:00.002-03:002009-02-27T18:58:43.749-03:00Well its that time of year again and school is starting up, and that means: lots of little kids who dont really want to learn particularly, but come to school an hour early to have something to do, and teachers who have to be at school but dont want to jump start themselves for at least another week, preferably not until after easter. Time will tell what people actually want to do any whether the kids will have any desire to jump on the learning waggon.

More to come laterlindseyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115151996615170207.post-15931160404126548272009-02-13T12:02:00.004-03:002009-02-13T13:14:39.315-03:00NEW PHOTOS ADDED! I completed my first design workshop!! Visit my flickr account by clicking on the link to the right. It took alot of planning, and the help of my good buddy hugo (the to-be-director of the high school) to pull it off, but I now have a clear direction to take with the design thanks to the hard work of the teachers and students who participated. It basically took a week of:

- writing formal invitations
- hand delivering the invitations
- inviting the students house by house (aprox. 1 mile radius, on bike in mud/rain)
- designing the activities
- writing out instructions for the activities
- buying supplies
- preping the materials
- correcting the intended message - goal/objs of workshop
- setting the adgenda/timetable
- organizing use of workshop space
- buying food and cooking
- drinking wine from a box

All this, in addition to guiding people through a process they'd never experienced before to arrive at a product that at the outset they didnt understand. Activities that occured on feb.8th:

- presentation of reasons for holding the workshop
- drawing of ideal colegio and presentations
- explanation of a spatial diagram, by way of the local brick factories
- spatial diagraming of the school environment and presentations
- site walk/exploration
- solar aspect/orientation map
- spatial maping example of brick factory
- create scaled plans of school and presentations
- choosing actual location for first classroom to be built within the month

SO anyway, i kinda ran myself down to the point of sickness and had to stay in bed for a day after the workshop ended. I guess not really sleeping well for 3 days and then pulling a quasi-all nighter at the end basically has the same effect that it would back in the states.

School starts back up here in about 2 weeks, and im presently trying to figure out how to get the teachers be motivated accomplish something with me before the year actually starts. Two things that I know ill be doing for sure is organizing the students-teaching-students program again through the society-environment class, and also running a workshop on proper project management for some of the teachers at the high school. Kinda alot, but itll be all i have for the first month or so and im not too worried about getting most of it done.

Other than that its really hot. Hot. And i have running water twice a week for a few hours a day, said hours typically happening when I happen to not be at home to fill up every bottle and bucket I have. This sucks a bit, and makes nearly every aspect of my life inconvenient, and slightly more dirty than I would like.
It could be worse and I could not have electricity.. life without a fan would be horrid and even more sweaty/dirty. Ha!

Valentines day is tomorrow.. have to make a valentine! he! Chau!lindseyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115151996615170207.post-6797967359113786322009-01-07T19:01:00.003-03:002009-01-07T20:30:39.514-03:00Time away from paraguay has been a very interesting experience for me. And not just because of the places ive gotten a chance to see, but also because of the perspective ive been able to experience as not only a foreigner on vacation in another country, but as a foreigner from two different countries with a mix of two sets of cultural norms applying them to yet a third place.

Geographically, northern argentina is not that far from paraguay. If one were to fly from asuncion to salta it would only take a few hours. But the culture is so much more influenced by the incan empire that spread down along the andes that it really felt like a completly different country, no only in comparison to the paraguayn country lifestyle, but also to buenos aires in the south which was very european. The scenery was high-desert like, with scrub and large cactus on the hills and some larger vegetation down in the low lands. Packs of donkeys, little mud brick houses in backwater towns, packs of children staring at the buses as they pass by their front porches. All of this is much like paraguay (minus the donkeys), but it was kinda strange to hear people speaking heavily accented spanish instead of guarani in the smaller communities.

I actually was kinda taken aback at the conditions in some of the towns that we passed on the way to our destination place a few hours south of salta in cafayate (pronounced cafaCHAte). I know that argentina is pretty well developed in many parts, so i never expected to see people living in simple mud brick houses with no windows or doors like the ones ive encountered while exploring ruins in death valley. Ive seen plenty of tin and plastic sheet shack houses (even in my paraguayan community) but just being in the desert again and seeing the way some families lives out there, with just a little heard of goats and disintegrating mud house kinda threw me a bit.

For most of my vacation id been traveling with a pretty large group of 9 to 11 people, so being able to go into the last week of my vacation and travel with only one other person was super refreshing. It was get really trying when people are pulling a group in all different directions, and no one can make up their minds. One just ends up sitting around feeling irritated. This is in contrast to my last week, where if we wanted to go somewhere it was relativly simple to make the decision. However, this is not to say that traveling with just one other person does not have its difficulties. There were certainly times toward the end of the trip where we had spent so much time together, talking about anything and everything, that there was really nothing left but to just sit there and enjoy the scenery passing. Too, one cant as easily have alone time when traveling as a duo, since the other person would naturally have other people to hang out with in a larger group setting. Also, it kinda goes without saying that whether you enjoy the company of your travel companion can make or break the trip; theres nothing worse than feeling trapped in an difficult situation where one would of course want to instead be having a plesant, vacation-esque time. Luckily for me, although id known gina for only a short while before then trip, we got along well enough to have things go smoothly for the majority of the time.

The highlights of the final part of my nearly month long vacation were a hiking trek we took for a day around the valley to see some of the landscape that bore a striking resemblance to many parts of death valley - the jutting rock formations, box canyons and yellow blooming desert scrub was very nostalgic. At the end of the treck we hiked into the back of a canyon where a man was waiting to give a flute and drum performance in this natural rock theatre. It completly unexpected, and exactly what i would have done had i been there by myself. Thus, to sit and have this wonderful music washing over us and around the canyon while the wind rushed up and out into the sunset spotted valley was better than anything I could have asked for as a terminus to my trip.

So I am happy to be back in Paraguay, ready to see things in a new light, with a slightly new perspective. As gina and I kept realizing throughout the week, everything thing you do is built on the foundation of your past experiences, your memories and all the things you value enough to remember. I am happy to have had the opportunity to build on who I am while I was away, to have had conversations about things that really matter, to have been able to listen and share, to feel like i do not just let time pass, but am an active participant in shaping what comes to be. And as I told a good friend of mine, "Heres to the little moments - the times that connect moments to moments, between the bright flashes of experience. They define us, but we wont remember them with any clarity as time selectivly shreds the fabric of our memory. So heres to who we are in this moment - heres to now."lindseyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115151996615170207.post-967300656668900412008-12-25T23:20:00.003-03:002008-12-25T23:50:05.662-03:00its been a great two weeks in uruguay and argentina, times filled with great beaches, dinner parties, lots of wine and more than a few really great times. Actually, this vacation thus far has far exceded my expectations, being that Ive consistently felt like ive been having a worthwhile time, even if i was just taking a nap on the front porch of our beach house, or sitting in a park watching the trees and clouds slowly move with the wind.

And tomorrow(!) i start hopefully the best part of my trip where i go up to beautiful tucumán and cafayate with gina to (of course!) have wonderful time for the new years. Im still not totally sure what were going to be up to when we´re cruzing around, but im pretty sure we´ll at least be going for swims in waterfalls, seeing some sweet desert rock formations and maybe even ride some horses. Oh yeah, i rode horses for the first time in Uruguay. On the beach. I was galloping up and over sand dunes with a pack of 6 other people; it was amazing.

Other highlights include the break-dance show i saw last night with my peace corps buddies and a few new friends from the hostel. It was a really cool time, despite the fact that the club was like an oven and i was basically soaked by the end of the night. As a side note, there are a ton of people from the bay area in BA, an almost funny ammount actually. I think out of a group of l0 that were with us last night, there were 5 people from CA, four of them from the greater san francisco area. Strange.

Another highlight was for sure the tango/dinner show which highlighted two dancers, and a couple singers. They were seriously talented, the man especially. I was totally blown away by the footwork, twirling and spinning, diping and kicking. Also, on the random note there was a family sitting at the table over that was from monterey, CA. I didnt know any of them, but still it was kinda odd. Also, as a slightly funny side note, my buddy dave and i decided to eat left over food after the show that people had left on their tables. Basically it was a cheese and meat plate and were were shoveling the cheese wedges into our mouthes while looking out for the waiters. This was a really nice place too, with people in suits and things, meanwhile me and dave are chowing down on people´s leavings. Classic.

More to come later.lindseyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115151996615170207.post-73049834854973164222008-12-22T07:30:00.002-03:002008-12-22T07:41:46.732-03:00presently typing away from the second floor of a hostel in the palermo neighborhood of buenos aires (BA) that has great stained glass windows and nice, "real" matresses, not a little foam pad that you have to suppliment by spreading magazines out underneath for a little extra cushioning. This is my first of 5 days in BA and ive got a pretty big schedule to get on, including the recoleta cemetary and adjoining artesinal fair today, a slew of museums and tango show tomorrow, and then maybe ill rent a bike and hit up most of the major parks to take some of the photos i keep saying that Ill take and then never do.

Im pretty excited about the cemetary today, to be quite honest. I found a map to all the graves in one of the side rooms in the hostel and the place is huge! Ive always been kinda curious about what would drive people to built a huge monument to store the body of a deceased family member. Must there at least be a little motivation on the part of the living to show off to the curious people, like myself who pass through, that their family was powerful, or that their family had money, or their family was well respected. Granted, it is also a tribute to the deceased, which has its place. But when that tribute (to use some examples ive seen in Paraguay) is a little house literaly covered in smooth shiny tile while the family has a dirt floor and crumbling walls, i have to question the rationality of it all. Well, regardless of the rationality of the place, im off to see it right now!

Ill add more later! Chau till then!lindseyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115151996615170207.post-6374113796789752732008-12-12T11:24:00.003-03:002008-12-12T11:35:37.144-03:00ok. ok. Things are moving along over here in Paraguay, and I dont mean the cows that have worn a trail in front of my house trying to eat my plants through the fence. What I mean is that Im going on vacation! Essentially leaving paraguay untill the begining of january for a much needed mental break from the rigors of bike riding and hydration rituals. Ill be going to uruguay and staying in a little beach town (the ocean!!) for a week, then to Buenos Aires for another week through christmas, and then off to the next exciting segment of my trip in northern argentina. As i pass the days flying kites and eating cheap, delicious food, the moment may arrive when I find myself sitting at an internet café. At that point, i will update this page so as to not forget later what had been going on around me. Till then! Chau!lindseyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115151996615170207.post-47582534602762731752008-11-21T18:13:00.002-03:002008-11-21T19:29:46.202-03:00so the last post i didnt quite finish my ideas about the problem of understanding the needs of the people who will eventually use a design. Ive since finished going through all the surveys from the ninth graders, and ive realized that they are quite aware of the things that they want, perhaps more than I gave them credit for. One question the gave me some great responses was one that I never would have asked had i not been observing their habbit throughout the year.

Each day at recess, most of the older kids leave campus to a small chapel across from the school. They usually sit over there and just talk with each other on these two old benches and drink terere. But their responses to why they value the space were great. Some of the highlights were that they 1. Appreciated the silence away from the school, 2. They felt like they were closer to nature, 3. They really liked the benches 4. It was a space separated from what goes on at the school that they could essentially claim as their own.

In comparision to other slightly more generic questions, this one gave me the information I wanted. Why was that? I believe it was because the kids didnt have to make any abstract connection to a place they could not readily conceptualize. They saw the place, they understood their rational for going there, and they wrote their responses. Simple.

Then going to the question which asked the kids to identify their ideal colegio (whose responses were almost not worth using) where the students had to draw only on their preconceived notions, students named teetertoters and slides as desired items. I asked them later about this, and they all laughed and said that this is completly not related to what they kids actually want.

Thinkings about it though, when you have no way to base your ideas on anything else then what you know (which is one elementary school) im not totally surprised at the non-sensical responses.

As a closing to this segment of the design story, i will be hosting the first of my design workshops this sunday with the profesors that will be teaching at the school. We will be setting their educational goals and how they relate with the design of the school grounds. Ill be setting up the building footprints so they can conceptualize the space, and also having them fill out a survey to identify their goals for the students and the teaching space. It will work out i hope.

Also, Ive read most of the letters from spreckles school (!) and will try to respond to those as soon as possible. I really enjoyed reading them, and should give responses that are equally enjoyable. Till later then!lindseyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115151996615170207.post-77139413679659194952008-11-15T19:42:00.002-03:002008-11-15T20:11:38.460-03:00Well what to say... its been more than a year that ive been in this country and im finding myself reflecting more and more about what im doing here and why exactly I should push myself to do the best work that I can. I still wonder sometimes: am I really what a peace corps volunteer should be? How would my work be different if I had a different temperment or work ethic? Am what Im doing really making a difference to the people with whom i work (or at least try to work)? I am, it seems, full of questions about myself. Im not really doing any self doubting about my place in paraguay, but i see more and more how my work can have the potential to really influence people of groups of people.

One project thats been weighing on me a bit has been the colegio design project. All the planning, the struggling to explain my reasoning and rational for why i want to run the project like so, and the seeming inability of various people to take an active interest in the project even when it will directly influence their quality of life and the standards existing within the community.

At this point, Ive finished doing the student surveys about their preferences for the colegio and the school grounds. Im still not even sure that ive really collected acurate data. When I ask the students about their responses to certain questions, for example, to describe their ideal colegio, they end up drawing the only colegio that they can conceptualize: Swing sets, a few separated buildings, a few flowers and a futbol pitch. This was slightly irritating. And in addition I had to pretty much explain each question verbally in guarani, as even the ninth graders cannot read spanish correctly, much less understand what the words actually mean. This is ok, and the data is still telling, but its utility for my project is very much in question.

I also had asked them to draw their ideal space to learn the subjects of the colegio. Many drew futbol pitches again, and they even rationaled that this was in fact was a learning space.

I had to consider myself and my biasas for a bit in this case. If someone told me this normally, of course I would normally assume that they didnt understand the question or else they were just trying to screw with me. Yet all the kids who drew non sensical things such as learning spaces (like water and grass) or a volleyball court, when questioned about their rational for drawing or writing these things, claimed most adamantly that all these things were in fact their ideal learninig spaces.

What does this say? It says that either the kids cannot even begin to wrap their heads around the idea of a space not already in existence (very posible) and therefore just drew what they liked. Or else they were completly serious, and i should take them serious as well. How can i see through their points of view? What information can I glean from the non sensical responses? When I looked at a drawing of an ideal learning space that only includes a bookcase full of books and a piece of chalk, and asked the kid "is this all you want to draw? A bookcase for your ideal learning space?" I should try to see it from their perspective as they answer "yes!".

When i imagine this drawing, i would include the things that I focus on: the space, where the students sit, and how the building interacts with the exterior space. Each person sees something different. Each thing is then filtered through their biases and socialy norms/taboos. What results is that someone may see the floor and how exacting it has been fitted together. more to come in a seclindseyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115151996615170207.post-40884720251278893082008-06-13T08:21:00.002-04:002008-06-13T08:45:41.676-04:00so ive been thinking about what ill be taking away with me when I complete my spendid time here in paraguay. I know it´s still a ways off, but with things starting to feel more settled in site ive begun to wonder a bit about how my life here will transfer to over there. I do know in paraguay that Ive become a more health conscious, both in terms of my own personal well-being and that of other people. I mean its hard no to want to brush and floss everyday when you see people with cavities on the fronts of their teeth and little kids with just black mush in their mouthes. I dont really understand the teeth problem here actually, seeing as these people have been given many dental hyegine presentations and get tooth brushes free through the school. As I see it, the problem really comes down to lifestyle choices, and the fact that a thought process such as "Should i really give my three year old soda every day, and then suckers or hard candy on the side?" does not really exist. So anyway, im now bushing my teeth regularly. Great.

But what else? So i´m getting better at learning new languages. This is a good thing, especially if id like to work in california where i believe the minority population has been the majority for a good while now. Granted, the design buisness usually follows the money trail, but that doesnt mean there´s now work to be had serving multiple populations. I really feel like now more than ever that the way to being the most succesful a person can be is to learn new languages. I mean, here its essential and not really an option. But it makes me see how much one might miss out on back home in the states without that knowlege. On the flip side, my english is degrading. Typically, i forget the correct wors in english and have to supliment it with a spanish or guarani word. I spend 30 seconds today tring to remember the word for remolacha (beets) in the supermarket.

I also feel like this specific type of work has made me more acountable to myself and to my goals and rationalizations about the future. To be sure, I see many paraguayans wasting their time away being drunk, taking no interest in their education, or just assuming that whatever will happen is just going to happen. Its almost a fatalistic aditude, but they are so tranquilo about the buisness that I often forget that things could be better. I do sometimes sit at my house doing nothing and don´t feel guilty about it. Ive learned to relax. yes. But at the same time, ive realized very clearly that if i dont gett off my ass and put myself out there and push people to change or to listen or to think nothing is going to happen. Im not going to learn anything, and they arnt going to get anything out of the deal either. There´s no one looking over my shoulder here telling me what to do, or if im doing my job right, or even to give me an idea of what i should do. Its all on in my head, and all on my shoulders. This is not to say that i feel stressed all the time, certainly not. But i will for sure that away from this experience the keen understanding of how one gets something done: you go make it happen.lindseyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115151996615170207.post-28928582371642044922008-06-11T11:47:00.003-04:002008-06-11T11:54:07.377-04:00ADDED NEW PHOTOS! So ive put up some photos of my house, images of a pig slaughtering i attended and some shots of a tree plating project i recently completed at one of the local escuela basicas. Just follow the link on the right to flickR. Im presently hanging out in asuncion and enjoying the pleasures of a relativly cool afternoon. Received one shirt and landscape architecture magazines in the mail, which was pretty sweet. Enjoy the photos!lindseyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115151996615170207.post-83643045813765834852008-05-16T08:15:00.006-04:002008-05-16T08:53:20.990-04:00hey there hope everyone thing is going well up there in the northern hemisphere. Its wintery here, and cold, sorta. I went to a sortija last night, which i would most closely associate with a rodeo except the people just ride around in circles and crack their whips for no apparent reason. Basically its just an excuse for guys to get drunk and watch girls. I went with a few friends and met up with other people there, and after the horses stoped circling the band cycled up and people started dancing. There was polka and cachaca, paraguayan and columbian? music respectivly. The dances are kinda specific depending on the kind of music, so i spent about a half hour or so watching and drinking more cheep beer. I was told later by my friends from the collegio that i am a good dancer, but they were pretty sloshed so who knows if they were actually seeing strait anyway. Got to dance with a good many girls so i would consider the night a success.

Two days ago was paraguay independence day, and all the people from the companias came into tobati for a parade. All the kids from all the schools were dressed up in various uniforms quasi-marching down the street. All the girls from the collegios had 4-5 inch platform books and miniskirts, as well as some heavyduty makeup. This is not to say that im complaining, but it certainly was amusing watching them try to march to a beat in those big boots.

So another one of my shirts was consumed by a cow. Well more precisely it was riped up into little pieces. Therefore i have a shirt request from threadless; maybe someone could send it over to me? Heres the link:

http://www.threadless.com/product/1219/My_Fantasy_World

Work is moving along, im just not quite sure in what direction. Im kinda at an impase with the collegios students and their planting trees at their houses, so ill have to come up with something new pretty soon here to keep them occupied. Thinking of doing the same project with the students in costa alegre, so ill see how that goes.

I received three packages in the mail while i was visiting asuncion. Two of them had the books in spanish for the kids at my host fams house and the other one had the design books. I gave the kids the books and they imediatly started reading them and seemed to be enjoying them. And then the next day they got a computer game for their dads computer and started playing that instead. Reminds me of the states. Im starting to make my way through the design books and they´ve got a lot of good case studies and pictures if the people here ever wrap their heads around getting the school project going.

Well thats all for now, be back later.lindseyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115151996615170207.post-61122378979010951302008-05-08T07:31:00.002-04:002008-05-08T08:09:18.409-04:00well well, i suppose i should really give some kind of update seeing as it has been a month without any additions to the blog. Where to start...ok. After much heeing and hawing i have finally moved into my new house. Ive moved over the hill to a different community that i was officially placed in by peace corps. I was kinda nervous about telling the family that id been staying with for the last four months that I was moving, but it turned out now to be much of a problem at all. I am kinda sad that im not living there anymore - i miss the company and being able to ask people questions about things that i dont understand at all hours of the day. But on the plus side i dont have to listen to little kids crying, people yelling at little kids, or mass amounts of chickens crowing at 4 in the morning. The day i was supposed to move there happened to be no but, so my contact stoped a carreta passing by and i threw nearly all of my plants, bags and tools on board. Granted an ox cart is not the fastest mode of transportation, but when the roads are esentially mud you take what you can get. I then had lunch with the host fam and followed the cart on my bike.

So the basic story since then has been a problem of utilities. Water and electricity in specific. My electricity didnt work for nights in a row and then mysteriously started working again. Around the same time the water shut off and remained off for about a week. Luckily i have a gas stove so i can heat up water to do a bucket bath, but man it is a pain in the ass without a running water source. I had to haul it all about a hundred meters to my house, then decided to filter what i was going to be drinking. I normamly wouldnt do this, but the neighbor who owns the well isnt the cleanest person, and im almost sure hes got worms or some kind of parasite. Therefore, i filtered my water so as to aviod a similar predicament.

Ive been working in the school garden at the escuela basica in costa alegre, my former town of residence. Ive been stressing experimentation with all of my projects, in the hopes that the kids will become a little more curious about things and start to make purposeful explorations. We did a natural pesticide demo and then applied them to the tomato plants that are being eaten. Weve also done a planting experiment with different concentrations of manure and soil to see which mix best supports health plant growth. At the collegio in ensenada, my present community, ive been visiting each students home in the final grade and helping them to plant trees. There are twenty seven of them so its been a challenge just finding everyone let alone helping them plant their trees correctly. So far ive visited 20 of them, and am hitting up the last 7 tomorrow mnorning.

The preliminary design explorations ive been working on for the new costa alegre collegio have kinda stalled, mainly owing to me working on getting my house in order. Im hopping to start to design a plan for participatory design in guarani so the students can make their own decisions about the layout of the grounds, what facilities theyd like and so on. Im still considering whether or not to include the teachers in the same groups as the students - they might take over, or more likely the students would just copy whatever the teachers do - but ill still have to wait for at least a few more months to get that project rolling.

Presently I am collecting data about the students to support a petition to the municipality for some funding for the new school. I figure if i can show that most of the students want to continue learning, but it will be difficult for them in their present situation i may be able to leaverage something. Also still need to contact different organizations in the states who might be interested in getting on board.
Anyone know a person, group, or organization that wants to help fund the construction of a new school down here?

Presently feeling nearly competent in speaking with people. Still lose most of the nuances of conversation, but i can respond and have general dialogue pretty well.

So, the new peace corps volunteer for tobati has arrived. We have lunch plans at my place next week, and she said she wants to go cut down a tree. I mentioned that I have friends with chainsaws who we could go cuting with, and i gathered from her face that that wasnt what she was imagining. She seems pretty nice, and once she gets her feet under her in terms of language im pretty sure we´ll be able to work together.

Im off to asuncion this weekend for a meeting with the country director to talk about work stuff and then im going to have a delicious, inexpensive dinner and drink beer. Yep. I miss everyone back home, and will call next time im sitting at a computer that has a decent connection. Bye!lindseyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115151996615170207.post-39685907635932802602008-03-30T08:59:00.003-04:002008-03-30T10:07:24.814-04:00Happy birthday hilary! I tried to call again, but then my phone ran out of money =/

Back for another instalment of everything thats been going on for about the last month or so. Its been pretty darn busy over here, so its been nice to have a free weekend in the city to unwind. The down side is that ive blown most of my money for the month. Oh well, its not really my money anyway. Thank you taxpayers!

Anyway, to begin ive been working at two schools in the area around where im living. The teachers are nice, and seem to be interested in anything that i think up for the students to work on. Last week i did a demonstration on composting and we set up a compost pile for the students to use when they clean all the weeds out of the garden for the year. A few of the students actually seemed to be genuinly interested and the rest of them seemed like they could care less. But this is the same case in the states right? Im planning on doing tree planting with the students next week when they bring in the trees ive assigned them to collect. The crazy thing about the students here is that they all know how to ID trees and what theyre good to be used for. Even the little kids know, its just part of the culture. I think about asking a 9 year old in the states to identify 10 trees by their leaves or berries and i think id be hard pressed to find one that could actually do it.

Going two weeks back from now, a group of american high school students came to visit from the states. This was strange to me, seeing as I had no idea that anyone from the states knew enough about paraguay to end up in tobati, fairly far away from the capital. Well, this group of students isnt just a little group. They were 145 students harvard medical school doctors and i think a dentist from a private, east coast highschool. Seems most of the students are well enough off that they can pay for the 3000 dollar trip from their pockets without having to do any fundraising. One laughed when i asked if they sold candy bars or something to finance the trip.

So anyway, they brought about 100,000 dollars to fund projects over the week they were there, which i see as good and bad. Good because the municipalidad is corrupt as all hell and money for any significant project tends to dissapear via graft, and bad because of the precedent it reinforces for the paraguayans in terms of depending on the handouts of external entities instead of being self sufficient. I dont deny that they have good intentions toward the paraguayans, and that its a great experience for students in the US to experience a different culture/country. I just question how their work is serving to empower the paraguayans to become better citizens, to empower them or to create the begining of good social change. They are also connected to a private school that is funded in part or totally by the macchi family, a influntial family in tobati, which serves to give a select group of needy paraguayan students free, high quality education and daily meals.

Its easy to say, "Its better if we focus on the tangible." Its good for PR, people like getting free stuff and giving to the "poor" might even aleviate some personal guilt over being financially very well-off by world standards. I dont really know. But as I was watching the buses and flat bed trucks pull up to the central plaza in tobati, with hundreds of screaming kids, baloons, and blaring music, i couldnt help but wonder why. Why this reaction. Why. If you took away the project money, how would the reaction change? Are the people really excited because they know american students are coming who want to work, to learn and teach and share? Or are they happy that they´re getting a new building at their school? I call what team tobati is doing development work, but whats it developing?

And what did the US students really get out of it? Yes, now they see that there are poor people in the world who dont just live in africa, ate some good food and got rid of that pesky required community service requirement. They now know how to toss bricks, shovel dirt, and say a few more words in spanish maybe. But to be quite honest, the 140 students that came could put their services to much better use interacting with the people here, learning what they can and teaching in return. Its almost insulting to see these kids who I know are very smart, creative people come here where creativity is in short supply and toss bricks. Two paraguayans could do the work of 12 students for 7 dollars a day and get it done faster and better, leaving the students to put their unique skills to use. I would challenge the students of team tobati to reconsider their role as development workers in paraguay, how they might come to work on some of the less visible problems inherant to the country. But how does one find out what these problems are? You ask, and then you learn, and then you act. Sounds much more fulfilling to me than shoveling soil.

As i told most of the people who came to costa alegre, I am willing and able to help in any way I can to make their experience of coming to work in paraguay more fulfilling for everyone involved. Im hoping some of them take me up on it. If theres one thing i could say to the teachers or people in charge of the team tobati exerience, its that your program is good, but you have the power to make it even better if you choose to do so. Nothing is ever stagnant and its always worthwhile learning from succeses and mistakes, right?

For people interested in sustainable development work, i emplore you to read "Two ears of Corn" by Roland Bunch. Its about agricultural development, but is broad enough that it can enlighten any development program. Its amazing and not to be missed for anyone involved with team tobati.

Also found out this weekend that a new urban youth volunteer is going to be placed in tobati in one week. This means that im going to have a very close new neighbor, and that they will be in the thick of the tobati situation in ways that i can not even imagine. I wish them good luck.

Moving into my own house in about a week, yay! Ill update more about that when it happens. Till next time then!lindseyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115151996615170207.post-46826904973718466252008-02-17T13:13:00.003-03:002008-02-17T13:42:12.304-03:00alright so im back in the city at the office with a bit of information to update about. Things are going well in site i suppose. I dont really have any thing to gauge my progress by since each site has its own unique qualities that determine if a volunteer is being succesful. BUT still, ive been working in a farmers field with a machette cutting corn down thats ready to be harvested, cleaning around mandioca plants with machette, as well as shucking corn and breaking bean pods. Working in the fields certainly makes me feel accomplished for a day, like I've actually done real work. And its a good work out, and makes people think i actually DO know how to work on things and have a work ethic.

Ive also bought a bee hive in a neighboring town and started to try workikng my own bees. Me and one of the people that I work with split open a palm tree trunk and took out this wild hive, transfered the comb to the box and tried to get as many of the other bees in there asd we could. We were both covered in bees, and there were thousands and thousands of them flying around everywhere. I work with a veil and gloves, but other than that i just wear a long sleve shirt, shoes and my hiking pants. I didnt get stung once, even though i was moving hand fulls of bees out of this trunk into the box. Its pretty fun.

School starts on the 25th and im going to start out by working in a collegio and escuela basica with a few of the teachers in their tech, science, and practical project classes. Im looking forward to it, and actually getting to know the ins and outs of the school system and the process of working with the teahers.

Its been a fun time in the city with lots of beer drinking, kareoke and dancing. We were at a club last night that had a foam bubble shower that was pouring from a cauldron in the middle of the dance floor. It made the whole place into a giant soapy foam soup with strobe lights and bumping music. It was a good time, one which i will likely repeat next time im in the city.

I received just about everything in the mail that people have sent me at one point or another. Ive got journals galore, letters, new books, tools. Its good. Thanks for the gifts!! Well, im gonna go get some mexican feed at the local chuchi mall, so perhaps ill update more later. Ciao!lindseyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com


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Back in April, we wrote that several Taiwanese LCD manufacturers were competitively preparing for the launch of Windows 7 in the netbook/notebook market with the development of capacitive and resistive multi-touch panels for the respective market.
In recent months, nine firms have already certified new multi-touch panels with the Windows 7 Logo and are all targeting release dates generally toward the end of 2009. While most of these companies have been working exclusively on capacitive and resistive multi-touch displays, Young Fast Optoelectronics in Taiwan has taken an exclusive route of its own.
The company recently announced that it is preparing analog matrix resistive (AMR) multi-touch panels for use in netbooks with availability scheduled toward the end of the year. According to company Chairman TJ Lin, it also plans to bring a few capacitive multi-touch panels to the market for netbooks as well. Lin also stated that the technology share for capacitive multi-touch panels in particular would increase 40 to 50 percent in 2010.
On the other hand, touch panel manufacturer eGalax_eMPIA Technology Inc. (EETI) in Taiwan has already received Windows 7 Logo certification for its 11.6-inch projective capacitive multi-touch panels and expects to pass the Windows 7 Logo test for its 10.4-inch, 12.1-inch and 15-inch projective capacitive touch panels by the end of the month. Like Young Fast, it will also deliver some analog matrix resistive panels in 10.1-inch, 11.6-inch, and 17-inch flavors.
As of now, the multi-touch panel technology types we can expect in netbooks and notebooks at the end of this year include projective capacitive, electromagnetic, optical and analog matrix resistive. What all of this means in terms of economics is that a variety of multi-touch technologies will be flooding the market all at once, and it is largely up to the consumers to decide which ones work best on a practical scale. With the anticipated widespread adoption of touch as a new mainstream computing input device, the possibilities are endless.


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This month three lucky Cool for Cats UK readers will win one of these lovely Meow Scarves, kindly supplied by Blue Raspberry. The 100% cotton scarves are generously-sized (180cm x 70cm), and feature an abstract cat design in fresh greens and cool blues on a neutral stone-coloured background.
Blue Raspberry kindly sent me a Meow Scarf to try out, and I love it. It's made from beautifully soft, lightweight cotton, and the modern print is unmistakably cat but not at all mad-cat-lady – the purrfect spring/summer accessory for cat lovers!
Blue Raspberry are a new label who launched in London earlier this year. Their full range of 'young, sassy and slightly irreverent' scarves can be viewed here.
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To enter the giveaway please leave a comment at the end of this post, and 'like' the Blue Raspberry Facebook Page. Entries must be in before midnight on 3oth April 2014. Only one entry per person, please! The three winners will be selected by a random electronic draw on 01/05/14 and notified by email. Each winner will receive one Blue Raspberry Meow Scarf. Prize must be claimed within 14 days of notification by email, otherwise a new winner will be selected. Sorry, but this giveaway is only open to addresses within the UK!
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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (born June 13, 1954) was appointed in July 2011 as the new Minister of Finance for the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Prior to this appointment, she was the Managing Director of World Bank (October 2007 - July 2011) and has also held the position of a Finance Minister and Foreign Minister of Nigeria, between 2003 and 2006. She is notable for being the first woman to hold either of those positions. She served as finance minister from July 2003 until her appointment as foreign minister in June 2006, and as foreign minister until her resignation in August 2006. Okonjo-Iweala was considered as a possible replacement for former World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz.
Education and personal life. Okonjo-Iweala is an Igbo[3] from Ogwashi-Uku, Delta State where her father Professor Chukuka Okonjo is the Obi, or King, from the Umu Obi Obahai Royal Family of Ogwashi-Ukwu.
Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was educated at Harvard University, graduating magna cum laude with an A.B. in 1977, and earned her Ph.D. in urban and regional planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is married to her husband Ikemba Iweala from Umuahia, Abia State - and they have four children. The eldest, Onyinye Iweala received her Ph.D. in Experimental Pathology from Harvard University in 2008 and graduated Harvard Medical School in 2010. Her son, Uzodinma Iweala, is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Beasts of No Nation (2005).
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, at the 2004 Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank GroupPrior to her ministerial career in Nigeria, Okonjo-Iweala was vice-president and corporate secretary of the World Bank Group. She left it in 2003 after she was appointed to President Obasanjo's cabinet as Finance Minister on 15 July.
In October 2005, she led the Nigerian team that struck a deal with the Paris Club, a group of bilateral creditors, to pay a portion of Nigeria's external debt (US $12 billion) in return for an $18 billion debt write-off. Prior to the partial debt payment and write-off, Nigeria spent roughly US $1 billion every year on debt servicing, without making a dent in the principal owed.
Okonjo-Iweala also introduced the practice of publishing each state's monthly financial allocation from the federal government in the newspapers. She was instrumental in helping Nigeria obtain its first ever sovereign credit rating (of BB minus) from Fitch and Standard & Poor's. Nigeria is considered to have defaulted on its sovereign debt in 1983 (debt rescheduling is considered a type of default by rating agencies).
Some controversy surrounded Okonjo-Iweala's appointment as Finance Minister, and that of Foreign Affairs minister, Olu Adeniji, as other ministers were resentful of their United Nations salaries of over US$240,000, compared with their own $6,000 base salary. The controversy was spearheaded by reform-minded media reports, although Okonjo-Iweala felt that her critics were unjustified because of the temporary nature of the payment, which came out of the donor supported Diaspora Fund negotiated by the Nigerian government. On Friday, 20 July 2007, the Court of Appeal ruled that the salary payment was not done within the ambit of Nigeria's laws, and directed her and Adeniji to pay back the excess to the account of the state.
Both Okonjo-Iweala and the Federal Government of Nigeria have appealed the case to the Supreme Court, and judgement is pending. The appeal is on the basis that the appeals court made its judgement due to erroneous information provided to it that the Nigerian government was making the salary payments, when in fact it was not.
She resigned as Nigeria's Foreign Minister on August 3, 2006 following her sudden removal as head of Nigeria's Economic Intelligence team by President Olusegun Obasanjo. She left office at the end of August 2006.
On October 4, 2007, World Bank President Robert Zoellick appointed her to the post of Managing Director, effective December 1, 2007.
Given the recent challenges faced by Nigeria on how to manage the macroeconomic policy in such a way to achieve the country's vision 2020, Okonjo Iweala was seen as a the Joshua who can actually lead the country to attain achieve her goal. During her confirmation as a Minister, she stressed the need to reduce the country's recurrent expenditure which is presently 74% of the National Budget and embark on capital projects which could improve the 14% unemployment rate in the country. One of the conditions she gave to the incumbent president, Goodluck Jonathan, was an additional power to influence/exercise power over the economic team. This power include the appointment of credible and proven staff to head departments and ministries under her portfolio.
Non-profit workIn 2007, Okonjo-Iweala's NGO, NOI Global Consulting, partnered with the Gallup Organization to introduce an opinion poll, the NOI poll, into the Nigerian polity.[9] She is a fellow at the Brookings Institution.[10] Okonjo-Iweala also serves on the Advisory Board of Global Financial Integrity and on the Board of Directors of the World Resources Institute.
Additionally, on September 28, 2007, Irish musician Bono was awarded the Liberty Medal. Bono donated the $100,000 prize to the Washington-based Debt AIDS Trade Africa, which he co-founded, and Okonjo-Iweala accepted the award on the organization's behalf.
Works. Chinua Achebe: Teacher of Light - a biography of Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, published by Africa World Press, (2003), co-authored with Tijan Sallah.
The Debt Trap in Nigeria: Towards a Sustainable Debt Strategy - an academic piece, published by Africa World Press, (2003), co-edited with Charles C. Soludo and Mansur Muhtar


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Jenny Clark and David Kane from the UK's National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) are bringing civil society to the open data table through their Voluntary Sector DataStore and associated initiatives.
Jenny and David talk about 'dipping the toe in the water' to bring together the data collected held and collected by voluntary and community organisations in the UK, and support civil society to contribute to and benefit from open data for the public sphere.
We had this idea that open data was the next big thing for the voluntary sector and possibly something that could really help organisations to change the way they run themsevles and the work they do… but we also knew the sector was starting from scratch.
About Jenny Clark
Jenny is the Research Manager for the NCVO and has managed NCVO's quantitative research programme since 2008. Jenny has specialist skills in labour market analysis, survey design and data analysis and has written a number of user friendly research publications including the NCVO Almanac series. Jenny has nine years research experience within a public policy department and holds an MSc with distinction in Advanced Social Research Methods and Statistics.
About David Kane
David Kane is a research officer, leading on the quantitative analysis of data for NCVO's work on the size and scope of civil society, and is an author of the UK Civil Society Almanac 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2012, the State and the Voluntary Sector and the UK Voluntary Sector Almanac 2007. David leads NCVO's involvement in research to classify voluntary sector organisations and in open data.
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- NCVO website
- Voluntary Sector DataStore
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- London DataStore
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