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                          For 32 Years Casa Hotel Nicarao Has Been Serving Estelí. 09/06/2011
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                          Durante 32 años Casa Hotel Nicarao ha estado sirviendo a Estelí.
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                          Shortly after the war ended in 1979 a pleasant hotel near Central Park opened it's door to guests in this fresh air mountain city of 120,000. 

                          Poco después de la guerra terminó en 1979, un agradable hotel cerca de Parque Central abrió sus puertas a los huéspedes en este aire fresco ciudad montañosa de 120.000.

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                          Afternoon Delight with Roasted Corn. Elote Asada en la Tarde. 09/01/2011
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                          Try roasting corn on the cob in your back yard
                          Ms. Juanita roasts corn over a charcoal fire in a frying pan. She uses a plastic pipe to make the coals really hot. 

                          Doña Juanita asados de maíz sobre un carbón fuego en un sartén. Ella se sopla en un tubo de plástico para a hacer las brasas caliente.


                          Doña Juanita roasts corn over a charcoal fire in a frying pan. She uses a plastic pipe to make the coals really hot. 
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                          See Our New Business Card. 08/31/2011
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                          Brand New Today.  Click on the card to see a bigger image.
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                          Ven y Vé ~~ Come and See!
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                          Volunteering with the Mujeres 08/24/2011
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                          Meet Volunteers Ruth Meding and Lea Dickopf
                          We are two German students who came to Nicaragua to do a volunteership with the Mujeres Ambientalistas in Esteli for a month. It was great fun. We helped tending the fields where they grow vegetables and herbs, they showed us the paper making process and we even got to make cards, posters and other things with them. They only use recycled paper and natural colors such as vegetables, fruits, flowers or tobacco. We went to the markets with them where we sold their paper products (todo hecho a mano!) It was a very interesting work where we got to spend a lot of time with the women and they told us so much about their association, about the foundation and the trouble of constantly having helpers (they all do it voluntarily) and buyers. As well as that it was a great way of getting to know the people and the country.
                          We can only recommend coming to visit them to see their products or even volunteer for a while. They are really happy about every helping hand.

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                          Bean Baby 07/28/2011
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                          Baby Sits in Red Beans El Bebe se sienta en frijoles rojos
                          The red beans are being screened and sorted for size, color and impurities. Our bean baby is bragging to his mother how excellent they are for Gallo Pinto.
                           
                          Los frijoles rojos están siendo analizadas y clasificadas por tamaño, color e impurezas. Nuestro bebé de frijol se está jactando de su madre lo excelente que son para el Gallo Pinto.

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                          Horse Day in Estelí 05/10/2011
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                          A skinny horse in the city




                          This is a common sight here in Estelí.

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                          High-spirited horse blocks a truck full of horses.



                          On Sunday there was a horse show there were several truck loads of horses brought in from the farms. It looks like this horse didn't want to go along for the ride. 

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                          A horse waiting for its caballero in the store.


                          The owner of this horse stopped to get some goodies to eat at the show down the road.

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                          Happy Mother's Day - El Día de la Madre 05/08/2011
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                          It's Mother's Day in the USA today. Yorleni created some new greeting card designs for El Día de la Madre which is on the 30th of May in Nicaragua, a Monday. It's an interesting coincidence that it falls on Memorial Day in the United States giving you an excellent opportunity to remember your mother on both days.
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                          Beautiful Thoughts on Hand-made Paper





                          Yorleni designed these cards from her heart's love for her own mother and the mother's that she knows and loves in her own barrio, Boris Vega.

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                          It's Falling Apart! 04/28/2011
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                          We're Working as Fast as We Can.
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                          10 Years of Rainy Seasons Have Taken its Toll
                          It's time rebuild what the ravages of tropical weather continue to destroy over the years. We are repairing and rebuilding all of the old structures hopefully in time for this year's rainy season.
                               Both yesterday and today we heard the ominous rumblings of distant thunder in the south and in the west. Managua, 50 miles to our west, had a hail storm yesterday afternoon. This is very uncommon at any time of the year. We hope the concrete sets up before the downpour.

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                          Semana Santa in Estelí 04/23/2011
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                            It's Semana Santa (Holy Week) here in Estelí, Nicaragua, Central America. Thursday and Friday almost every business was closed and the steel shutters were down and padlocked and the streets were nearly empty. The many buses and taxis that normally fill the streets were missing. The Roman Catholic influence is pervasive and all encompassing. Thousands of worshippers walked slowly and somberly, protected from the sun by their umbrellas, behind the procession of priests carrying a statue representing Jesus down the empty streets from the Church of Calvary to the Cathedral in front of the central park 12 blocks away. Many people go to mass every afternoon and have prayer vigils in their homes. Such a reverence for Jesus I have never seen in the US.

                          Happy Resurrection Day


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                          A Better Photo Opportunity 04/16/2011
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                          Coming Soon is A New Photo Venue.

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                          Terrace Construction


                          We are adding a concrete terrace for
                          visitors to use for photo opportunties
                          with their travelling groups this summer.
                          It will be perfect to stand on with our
                          colorful mural in the background.
                          Now they won't have to stand in mud
                          during the rainy season.

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                            My name is Kenny Ellwanger. I am a volunteer at the Proyecto de Las Mujeres Ambientalistas in Estelí, Nicaragua. I retired from Eastman Kodak Co. in Rochester, NY in 2005. I have been living and studying Spanish and the culture since 2007 part time and full time since June of 2008.

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