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		<title>Back on the horse&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 07:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Not really sure why I am choosing this moment in time to start to write again but I am. I realized how much I missed writing and having a platform to be able to share my thoughts and stories. I believe it is both healthy for me and for the reader. Over the course of &#8230; &#8230; <a href="https://avirichman.wordpress.com/2011/02/14/back-on-the-horse/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Recent Thoughts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 23:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[While I was home visiting my family, I played basketball with my little brother only to lose to him for the first time EVER. In the midst of this loss, I also hurt my knee, dont know how it happened, but it began to hurt and has continued to hurt for the past two weeks. &#8230; &#8230; <a href="https://avirichman.wordpress.com/2010/04/13/recent-thoughts/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Running of the Jews</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I got back to Nicaragua after visiting my family for Passover and after a tiring 4 hour sleep, I got up to go visit my Nica family in Masatepe for the annual Good Friday &#8220;Running of the Jews&#8221;. Note&#8230;there is no proper translation in Spanish. My family had already told me about this event and &#8230; &#8230; <a href="https://avirichman.wordpress.com/2010/04/06/running-of-the-jews/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Extending Peace Corps?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I officially have six months left of my Peace Corps service. I have enjoyed almost every minute of it and have grown a lot as a person during these past two and a half years in Central America. I owe much of that development to the people of Guatemala and Nicaragua. I now have a &#8230; &#8230; <a href="https://avirichman.wordpress.com/2010/02/05/extending-peace-corps/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Mission Accomplished</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What exactly is the ultimate goal of Peace Corps? Is the gran meta (as they say it español) world peace as the name Peace Corps implies? Is it improving relationships between the people of the United States and other countries? Is it actually to help others to meet their own personal and societal goals? Or &#8230; &#8230; <a href="https://avirichman.wordpress.com/2010/02/02/mission-accomplished/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Happy New Year 2010&#8230;one month late</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Over one month has passed since I have last written or posted anything to this blog. 2009, one of the more interesting years in my short life, has left us making way for a new decade. 2010 surely has already made its mark, effectively destroying the most impoverished country on this side of the hemisphere. &#8230; &#8230; <a href="https://avirichman.wordpress.com/2010/02/02/happy-new-year-2010-one-month-late/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Holidays Savings!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is Christmas season and I am sitting in the middle of capitalism hell. That’s right folks… I am in the United States of America, state of Florida, city of Ft. Lauderdale, and sitting down in a mall food court surrounded by the heavenly stores of Super Target, TJ Maxx, and Old Navy. Most that &#8230; &#8230; <a href="https://avirichman.wordpress.com/2009/12/11/holidays-savings/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Notes from November</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So what else have I been doing? This past Friday, November 20, school officially ended. The official end of school was supposed to be November 27 but in typical Nicaraguan beauracracy, it was decided on November 10 to cut the last week of school. In reality I am in favor of this decision as I &#8230; &#8230; <a href="https://avirichman.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/notes-from-november/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Telantro: Coming Soon to Stores Near You</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Blanca Melissa Saenz is an intelligent, hard working, humble 15-year-old student from a rural community in between the Nicaraguan cities of Granada and Masaya. She, along with many of her classmates, sometimes walks over an hour in the midday heat just to get to and from Bertha Pacheco high school where I teach. Most of &#8230; &#8230; <a href="https://avirichman.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/telantro-coming-soon-to-stores-near-you/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Robbing Happiness</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Long delay&#8230;.I know. I am going to update you first on my sad current situation and then go backwards. Stay tuned this week as there should be a lot of posts. October 28, 2009, 3pm. I felt at peace, I felt proud, I just plain felt good. Earlier that morning, the ten best student businesses &#8230; &#8230; <a href="https://avirichman.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/robbing-happiness/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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