welcome to jinotega

here's a quick video tour of where i live in nicaragua. the picture quality isn't so great, and neither are my film editing skills (i'll leave that to elyse) but i guess you can get a little better idea of the life i'm living here.



p.s. video content was taken by my counterpart who was working on a project about waste management for a class. as we all know, peace corps volunteers are not allowed on motorcycles.

fotos

so i have started working/mentoring/meeting with this boy named Juan Carlos here in my site. i met him a few months ago through a couple from California who was here working with the organization Circulo de Amiga (an NGO i think i've mentioned in previous blogs). After they left they asked if i could continue to work or check up on him. i've just started meeting with him, so we'll call what i hope to be a continuous blog series, the Juan Carlos Photo Project. I dont like to take pictures, he does, so i gave him a little job, show my family and friends at home where i live. hopefully every few weeks i'll have a few new pictures. I'm also working with him on some basic photo editing in iPhoto, here's what we got so far:

juan carlos went up to a town called San Rafael de Norte, a little north of jinotega, and took some pictures of a lovely church there...





here are a few photos of his two younger brothers and mother, he is the oldest of 6 kids...





im still trying to find somewhere with fast enough internet to upload my video tour of jinotega, so far no luck, but the search goes on.