Hurricanes, live grenades in the schoolyard, and two-foot iguanas in the toilet bowl. Peace Corps Volunteer Joshua Berman gives weekly updates from the pueblo of La Trinidad in the northern hills of Nicaragua. Join him in his dark bluegreenblue kitchen as he experiences the challenges and adventures of third world development, environmental education, soybeans,and life in the Corps. Meet his local posse of Trinitenos and place a bet at the next cockfight. Tranquilo como Camilo....
Joshua finished his mission in Nicaragua in March 2000.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Joshua Berman was a Peace Corps Volunteer, teaching environmental education and agriculture in La Trinidad,
Nicaragua, for two years. He wrote weekly updates from his site in an e-mail community called NicaDayz.
For more about Joshua, and about his current work as a travel writer, see his homepage at joshuaberman.net or his blog, The tranquilo traveler . Letters reprinted with permission.
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