As always things continue to cruise right along in my site and elsewhere. It is surprising that it has already been a year since I was swore in for the first time as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Bolivia. Not quite the halfway mark of my service (because of transferring to Nicaragua) it is still [...]

  Well here goes another round of life in Nicaragua by Brandon… try not to fall asleep in the middle of it this time. Well I keep plugging away at might my site and really enjoying myself. I continue to plug away at work trying to get a good sustainable project going, but in the mean [...]

Well my service continues but now I have ran into another problem… having people to come visit. A lot of people would like to ¨live the campo life¨ for a bit  but it usually comes down to a money problem. The same thing has happened with my sister Mariah.  She has heard the stories and [...]

Well here is my last update for the year. I have been in my site for about a month now and doing just fine. You are all probably wondering what I did for Christmas… well most of the people in my community are Catholic and so everyday at a different house in December they have a [...]

Nicaragua! I arrived here on the 10th on October and it has been pretty awesome from the start. We were placed in with the current agriculture training group that was already in progress. We started a sort of independent training program because our Spanish levels were acceptable and a lot of the training is similar [...]

So I guess this is my first full update in quite a while. So I guess I will start where I left off… After a somewhat hectic time in Lima, Peru filling out paperwork and trying to figure out what I was going to do next with my life I decided to spend even more [...]

I am coming home for a bit… free. Is that short and sweet enough?       

Well I am sure most of you have heard by now that they chose to suspend the Peace Corps Bolivia program for awhile… needless to say Bolivia lost some cool points.  Sometimes Peace Corps is like coaching the worst team in the league… on a very bad day but as they always say, there is [...]

You might be wondering… Why is Bolivia cool? Well, just read the recent news on the country and that is one of the many reasons. There are many many more but that should keep you all occupied for at least the next week where my blog might be blessed with another entry. For [...]

Yes, I am still alive. I gave myself un espaldarazo or pat on the back for the first update in two months. Yes I am sane, healthy and having a good ole´ time down here. Well I guess I should tell you a little about whom I have been living for the past three months. I live [...]

  Well I must be becoming a Bolivian without even knowing it because I promised a entry in the “near future” and it has been close to a month. The integration process must be working. Really I have just be busy and maybe a bit lazy. I don’t know how much Bolivian news makes it to [...]

Click on the B in Bolivia tab and my new address is there. I have been very busy moving my stuff from Cbba to Santa Cruz. You have to ship everything by bus and then hire a taxi to move it out. I have it pretty easy since I am taking over for a volunteer [...]

Today we have our swear in where we are officially volunteers in Peace Corps. I have finally be feeling better since my site visit. My site visit went well except for the fact when I return I came down with Dengue Fever. Read up on Dengue it sucks…  but I guess that is one of [...]