Peace Corps Cribs / El Salvador: Environmental Education (Jeff Butts´ House)

This is where I live. The car is someone´s who was visiting from the US.

The video cuts off short at the end where I was talking about how I wash my clothes by hand and hang dry them. Also, the video ends before I talked about where I am going to plant my vegetable garden.

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[jbibm81]

watching this video reminds me of the little white chicken you can see at the end in the middle of them ... she was so cute. dumb, but cute. I miss her. She probably made some guy's soup. :(

[ErickWAmaya]

that's a very nice place, Im from ESA,, which town is dat?

[jbibm81]

@ErickWAmaya -- It's a casario of a small municipality in southern La Unión.

[bintasyllah]

Wow! how fortunate! I was in Guinea, WA. We had no running water, no electricity, and in the world is that SUV sitting outside! Wow, central/south America is SOOOOOOOOOOOO different from Africa.

[jbibm81]

@bintasyllah -- I'd have a hard time in that situation. Honestly, I think I would have done better working for an international non-profit.

[barrymo420]

awesome man..nice and green there...

[jbibm81]

@barrymo420 -- yup. during the rainy season.

[sagelaws]

As PCV in El Salvador from 06-09, my community in Maiguera, Guatajiagua, Morazan didn't have electricity nor reliable running water. None of the homes had access to the road and there definitely weren't any paved ones in my community. Only two families had pick up trucks out 1000 households. My house was an abandoned adobe shack that was full of all sorts of critters and was literally falling apart around me.

[sagelaws]

As PCV in El Salvador from 06-09, my community in Maiguera, Guatajiagua, Morazan didn't have electricity nor reliable running water. None of the homes had access to the road and there definitely weren't any paved ones in my community. Only two families had pick up trucks out 1000 households.

[sagelaws]

Nice place! I wish I had a camera to show where I lived in Maiguera,  Guatajiagua, Morazon as a PCV from 06-08. Like bintasyllah, I didn't have reliable water nor electricity. Most homes in community didn't have access by road and only two families in my community had pick up trucks. It definitely was an experience.

[sagelaws]

Nice place! I wish I had a camera to show where I lived in Maiguera, Guatajiagua, Morazon as a PCV from 06-08. Like bintasyllah, I didn't have reliable water nor electricity. Most homes in community didn't have access by road and only two families in my community had pick up trucks. It definitely was an experience.

[bintasyllah]

@bintasyllah and while much of Africa is infinitely poorer than where you were (by "Western" standards) the quality of life is TONS better, cause they OWN THE LAND. They also don't glorify white skin the way the latin world does. Truly, inaccessible roads, no TV and such has really worked to the benefit of Africa in Many respects. Guinea had no American or Euro food chains. Only Novatel. In fact, Guinea could hardly afford Billboards. OK. Enough. I can relate to what UR saying though.

[bintasyllah]

@bintasyllah Africans that they need to "improve" themselves, which really translates into cultivating a capitalistic, consumer culture in which natural resources have little value to non-mega corporate entities. While govts will continue to allow many atrocities, the avg African doesn't understand how McD's is better than smoked fish and rice or why working for someone else all your life only to retire in old age makes sense. I lived in Nicaragua and Costa Rica prior to Peace Corps

[bintasyllah]

@jbibm81 In central America? I think you're right. In Africa, being a PCV is an EXCELLENT foot in the door. As you know there are so many paradoxes in intl. Development, but there is no "cash cow" like Africa. ALL the intl. NGOs want a piece of that pie and they go to great lengths to stake their claim. I know this sounds a bit crass, but as a PCV, you know exactly what I'm talking about. And if you don't lemme just say that The development world spends a whole lot of time convincing