[the following program was pre-recorded for broadcast at this time. just like pbs...] Often, before our medical team leaves Ecuador, we are treated to an evening of music after dinner. The traditional Andean music includes flute, pan pipes, charango (small 10-stringed instrument, originally made with an armadillo shell) as well as guitar and simple percussions. [...]
Archive for February, 2012
Ecuador: la musica
Posted in Ecuador on February 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Ecuador: the snows of Cayambe
Posted in Ecuador on February 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Apologies to Ernest Hemingway. This may be the only blog entry while here in Ecuador. All others have been pre-scheduled, but we finally got a chance to see the mountain for which this town is named, so I thought I’d pinch a photo off the internet and give you a glimpse. In fact, it’s a [...]
Ecuador: when you see the Southern Cross for the first time…
Posted in Ecuador, Music on February 21, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I don’t always see the Southern Cross while in Ecuador because it comes up late at night this time of year, and the sky is often cloudy or bothered by street lights. It’s the most prominent constellation unique to the southern hemisphere, and on the flag of several nations. When I saw the Southern Cross for the first [...]
Ecuador: more churches
Posted in Ecuador, Religion on February 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
[Another in a series of automatic blog posts. There is nobody at the helm.] Last year about this time I put up photos of various churches in Ecuador. Take a peek HERE for those. Here are a few more. I’m running out of time for posting beforehand, so these photos may be thrown in with the last-minute [...]
Ecuador: lago cuicocha
Posted in Ecuador on February 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
[another in a series of pre-scheduled blog posts... see also posts from last year by clicking the Ecuador link to the right...] On the weekend we’ll go and relax somewhere, and here in the north of Ecuador we’ll likely go to Otavalo for a day of shopping. What? Shopping? Relaxing? Try Otavalo. Very colorful and [...]
Ecuador: more fine art
Posted in Ecuador, Visual art on February 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Last year I posted on Oswaldo Guayasamín, an artist whom I like very much. He’s considered the Ecuadorian Picasso and you’ll see reproductions of his work everywhere, on postcards, T-shirts, in restaurants, and some of them are really poor knockoffs. His home overlooking Quito is now a museum, not only of his art but of the many pre-Columbian [...]
Ecuador: surgery team
Posted in Ecuador on February 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
[I've scheduled several posts to go up while we're away on the trip. The wonders of WordPress.] Our surgery team sets up in an underserved hospital and, in effect, takes over the place. The local staff doesn’t know what hit them until a few days into the project, as they are accustomed to only a [...]
Ecuador: clinic team and valentines
Posted in Ecuador on February 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This year we begin work on Valentine’s Day. Here they call it el día de San Valentín, also called el día del amor y de la amistad, the day of love and friendship. While in Ecuador we split up into two very different teams: the family medical clinic, which travels each day by van or [...]
Ecuador 2012: Cayambe
Posted in Ecuador on February 7, 2012 | 2 Comments »
We fly this coming Sunday morning from Bangor and arrive in Quito, Ecuador, before midnight. I’m with Hancock County Medical Mission again, my 15th trip where I serve as a translator. This year we’ll work in Cayambe, a small city of about 30,000 people in the north of the country. Cayambe is at an elevation of nearly 10,000 feet, [...]
Super Bowl XLVI
Posted in Hemingway, Humor, Literature on February 5, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Some of you will be cheering for the Giants this evening, others the Patriots (around here it’s Patriots or nothing, except when it’s Red Sox or Bruins). You may find yourselves cheering opposite teams in front of the same flat-screen TV (from opposite sides of the living room) because New York and New England overlap [...]
