my glasses are awfully big on silvia.
the cows. my yard. my laundry.
latest pasttime: braiding jacqueline's hair.
new favorite strange bolivian fruit.
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this was the blog of Jacqueline, an agriculture extension volunteer in Bolivia with the Peace Corps. this was a personal blog that did not reflect the views of the Peace Corps or the United States government.
Listen to some recordings of Guarani stories.
this was the blog of Jacqueline, an agriculture extension volunteer in Bolivia with the Peace Corps. this was a personal blog that did not reflect the views of the Peace Corps or the United States government.
About the blogger
- Jacqueline
- El Gran Chaco, Bolivia
Some important web links
- Tammy's Gambia Blog
- Joy, former PCV Bolivia, future PCV China
- George's Bolivia in Pictures
- Google in Guarani
- Website of my friend Dave, serving in the Republic of Dominica
- Marcos and Ericas Bolivia blog
- The blog of Tiffany, a B44 natural resources lady experiencing the altiplano
- Traditional Guarani sayings (translated into Spanish)
- Guarani-English dictionary
- Wikipedia on Guarani
- Steve's fotos
- Website of Steve, an agriculture extension volunteer in Senegal
- The weather in Villa Montes
- The blog of Britta, a fellow B44 ag extension lady (with fotos!)
- My sister and best friend Lyna's most MOST excellent blog from Bahrain
- What is the Peace Corps
- La Razon, a Bolivian Newspaper
- El Diario, a Bolivian Newspaper
- OAS Newsclips, updates at 10:30 AM daily
- BBC Americas page
- State Department Notes on Bolivia
- A great current events blog from Cochabamba
- The Science Times
What I'm reading
- Yateiresa
Books I have read
- The God of Small Things
- Lord Jim
- 1491: New revelations on the Americas before Columbus
- Interpreter of the Maladies
- Globalization and its Discontents
- The Selfish Gene
- Jitterbug Perfume
- Concise History of Bolivia
- Short History of Nearly Everything
- The Stuff of Thought
- The Razors Edge
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
- Love in the Time of Cholera
- Skinny Legs and All
- Pale Fire
- Pnin
- Whispering in the Giants Ear
- River Town
- Malaria Dreams
- Reading Lolita in Tehran
- Botany of Desire
- A Thousand Splendid Suns
- Kite Runner
- Cosmopolitanism
- The tipping point
- Hocus Pocus
- A Long Way Gone
- The Lost Continent
- Bel Canto
- This Is Your Brain On Music
- Thumbs, Toes, and Tears
- The God of Small Things
- Lord Jim
Some great English vocab
For fellow Guarani autodidacts.
- Avati jaeko naneremitiete jare naneruete.- Maize, our true seed and our true companion.
- Yapara viki pentirami.- That we may work as one single body.
- A má que ivai iporãve, he'i tova ra'anga apoh.- The uglier it is the more beautiful, says the mask maker
- Kunhawasi-Fat lady
- Yusuropai-Thank you
- Ikavinho- Is it going well/ Its going well
- Ajerovia- Thats makes me happy.
- Ekaru- Eat!
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