I promise to spend more time updating blog soon. This month has been super busy and I'm slowly catching up on housework and other things. I helped give an HIV/AIDS workshop last week to middle schoolers and have another tomorrow, and I attended a Project Design and Management workshop for a day and a half. So I haven't been around much time to write. I will also give an update about the water project, which is pretty much done already. We just have to wait for the cement to dry before the kids can use it.
And here's an article in the New York Times about chicken buses, or camionetas, or my nearly daily form of transport.
Just a comment on the article.
The writer mentions that he took many camionetas and didn't see any farm animals. I've taken probably a good number more than he has and at least once or twice a week, mainly when there is a market people are heading to or from, I share the bus with animals like chickens, turkeys, roosters, chicks, etc. No cows or pigs, but birds at least. So while the term chicken bus may be offensive, it isn't all that untruthful. I personally try to use the word camioneta to refer to them-that's what people here call them.
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