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Part II: Graduate School
Mario called everyone. Nobody could or would help him, not at that price.
As a foreign national, he was not eligible for U.S. financial aid. One of his friends told him to talk to the school deans. He did; they could offer a little by way of [...]
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(Part II) The True Story of How Mario Could Not Afford School, Met the President, Learned English, and Found Nearly-Free Rent in New York City
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RSS Feed- Morningside Heights: Shopkeepers & Immigrants February 22, 2010A bundled paper on top of a cart outside the newsstand on 116th + Broadway Jamal is from Bangladesh. His daughter is nine years old. Her name is Sabrina, and he laughs when you tell him that nine is a good age, because the teenage years always have a bit of struggle for independence; right now [...]
- From Colombian Sugarcane to Candy: A Glimpse into a Micro-finance Project December 13, 2009Remember Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood when we would sometimes get to see where things came from — the factories, the workers, the process behind the product, from crayons to fortune cookies? That was exactly what the visit with micro-finance firm, Contactar, was for me: a glimpse into where a common good originates. From harvested sugar cane [...]
- 4 for Gold in Bogota December 6, 2009A visit to the Gold Museum / Museo del Oro in Bogota Posted in *All Posts, Colombia Tagged: Bogota, Gold, Gold Museum, Museo del Oro
- 3 More from the Farm November 30, 2009
- 4 Pics: Pasto continued November 22, 2009
- Outside Pasto, On the Way to the Microfinance Projects November 14, 2009Posted in *All Posts, Colombia Tagged: coffee, Cola, Microfinance, Pasto
- Only 3 Photos Today: Microfinance in Pasto November 4, 2009More photos and their stories later this week . . . Posted in Colombia Tagged: children, Colombia, Microfinance, Pasto, Truck
- Salad is not Salad in Pasto and India: Pass the leaves, please! October 31, 2009This is the Ceasar Salad from the only known Mexican restaurant in Pasto, Colombia. A family friend of Mario’s, my generous and beautiful host was not quite sure what to do with it. She had traveled to the U.S. to visit her sister; she’d been to cities I’d never seen. She commented that North Americans [...]
- On the Outskirts of Pasto: Community building in one of the most diverse cities in Colombia October 19, 2009Another timely rant on why I am a sap for Pasto and what that has to do with China and midterms . . . It was all, once again, oddly familiar: people from a bigger, outside organization (in this case, UN-affiliated) came to speak in an area where few foreigners venture. It was not unlike, [...]
- When Pasto, Colombia looks a lot like . . . China. Really. October 13, 2009View Larger Map My dear Pastuso friend, Mario, is going to faint when he reads this. No one — until now — would posit that Pasto is anything like China. I cannot recall seeing a single person of East Asian decent — let alone Chinese — there. I last lived in Beijing, which is a far cry [...]
- Morningside Heights: Shopkeepers & Immigrants February 22, 2010
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