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Thursday, July 26, 2007

Swear-In Photos

Despues de hoy,
estamos voluntarios de Cuerpo de Paz en Panama.

Groupo 59 de voluntarios en Panama

Swear-In went fine...almost all in Spanish so I had to pay good attention. The oath was in English, so at least I know what I agreed to. Thus starts our 2 years as Volunteers

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Todd said...: Congrats!; August 1, 2007 at 4:51 PM

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Books We've Read (with Ratings)

Digital Fortress, Dan Brown (A5 K6)
Profiles in Courage for our Time, ed. Caroline Kennedy (Anr K6)
The Bourne Identity, Robert Ludlum (Anr K6)
A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini (A8 K7)
Looking Backward, Edward Bellemy (Anr K7)
Like Water For Chocolate, Laura Esquivel (A6 K6) watch the movie or read the book, don't bother with both, they're that similar
State of Fear, Michael Crichton (A5 K4)
Dreams from my Father, Barack Obama (Anr K8)
Slander: Liberal Lies about the American Right, Ann Coulter (Anr K6)
John Adams, David McCullough (Anr K8)
Speaker for the Dead, Orson Scott Card (A8 K7)
Life of Pi, Yann Martel (Apr K5)
Philosophy of Sustainable Design, Jason F MccLennan (Anr K6)
The Mermaid Chair, Sue Monk Kid (A7 Knr)
The Hours, Michael Cunningham (A5 Knr) maybe the movie was better
Cold Mountain, Charles Frasier (A9 Knr)
Picture Perfect, Jodi Picoult (A7 Knr)
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides (A9 Knr)
Keeping Faith, Jodi Picoult (A7 Knr)
19 Minutes, Jodi Picoult (A6 Knr)
Faithless, Karin Slaughter (A7 Knr)
The Snow Fox, Susan Fromberg Schaffer (A9 Knr)
Little Earthquakes, Jennifer Weiner (A6 Knr)
Sybil, Flora Rheta Schreiber (A6 Knr)
The Pilots Wife, Anna Shrive (A5 Knr)
Body Surfing, Anna Shrive (A7 Knr)
A Glimpse of Nothingness, Janwillem van de Wetering (A9 Knr)
The Tender Bar, JR Moehringer (A7 Knr)
Lovely Bones, Alice Siebold (A8 Knr)
The House on Dream Street, Dana Sachs (A8 Knr)
The Bastard of Istanbul, Elif Shafak (A8 Knr)
Going all the Way, Dan Wakefield (A3 Knr)
Body in the Library, Agatha Christy (A7 Knr)
Dead Run, PJ Tracy (A7 Knr)
Everyone Worth Knowing, Lauren Weisberger (A6 Knr)
Half Mammals of Dixie, George Singleton (A8 Knr)
Live Bait, PJ Tracy (A7 Knr)
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte (A5 Knr)
Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia, Carmen Bin Ladin (A7 K7)
Mystic River, Dennis Lehane (A7 K7)
Enders Game, Orson Scott Card (A9 K9) Still awesome
Dark Star Safari, Paul Theroux, RPCV (A6 Knr)
Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquirel (A8 Knr)
Small Island, Andrea Levy (A8 Knr)
Motorcycle Diaries, Ernesto ¨Che¨ Guevera (A6 Knr) movie is as good or better
1776, David McCullough (A6 K7) should have read the dust cover: only about the army, not the political process / Dec. of Ind.
Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, Umberto Eco (A7 Knr)
Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo (A4/7 K7) second half way better than architecture history lecture of first half
I Know This Much Is True, Wally Lamb (A8 Knr)
Black Order, James Rollins (A4 Knr)
Selkirk´s Island, Diana Southam (A5 Knr)
Don't Know Much About Geography, Kenneth C Davis (Anr K2) A book on geography with no real maps???
Adrift - 76 Days Lost at Sea, Stephen Callahan (A7 K7)
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Gregory Maguire (A6 K5) Cinderella from the guy who wrote Wicked, had success, and now only re-tells fairy tales
The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama (Anr K7) better written than expected, more human than politician
The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell (A9 K8)
Angels & Demons, Dan Brown (A5 K7) prob. better than DaVinci Code
Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering, Henry Petroski (Anr K6)
The Floating Admiral, Agatha Christie and the Dectection Club (A4 Knr)
Monkeywrench, PJ Tracy (A6 Knr)
Hungry Ocean, Linda Greenlaw (A6 Knr) that woman pilot in the Perfect Storm
Cesar's Way, Cesar Milan (A6 Knr) GEB puppy raisers already know most of it
The Earth Moved, Amy Stewart (A9 K8)
Guns, Germs, and Steel; Jared Diamond (A8 K8) very interesting, but edit it again, very repetative, could be 100+ pages shorter
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt (A7 Knr) non-fiction that reads like fiction
Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (A5 K4) where is Igor??? Why is this a classic?
Message in a Bottle, ? (A4 Knr) (when 15 PCVs read two pages and put it down, there is a reason)
Bel Canto, Ann Patchett (A8 K7)
Dune, Frank Herbert (A7 K7)
The Red Tent, Annita Dionant (A7 Knr)
Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court, Mark Twain (A6 Knr)
Duchess, ? (A8 Knr) (Good historical fiction)
Flu, Gina Kolata (A7 K6)
The Pilots Wife, ? (A4 Knr)
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho (A6 Knr)
Sense & Sensibility, Jane Austen (A6 Knr)
The Alienist, Caleb Carr (A5 Knr)
Steel My Soldiers Hearts, ? (A5 Knr)
Shadow of the Wind, ? (A6 Knr)
Mistress of Spices, ? (A6 Knr)
The Lonesome Gods, Louis L'Amour (A4 Knr)
Skinny Dip, ? (A3 Knr)
Music and Silence, ? (A5 Knr)
Mamoth Stone, ? (A3 Knr)
Written on the Body, Jeanette Winterson (A6 K5)
Memiors of a Geisha, Arthur Golden (A8 K7) (both our sisters sent a copy for April's birthday)
Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore (A8 K8) (fast read, easy to process information, lots of pictures/graphs, not as doomsday as anticipated)
Under the Tuscan Sun, Frances Mayes (A4 K4) (see the movie instead; the book just makes you hungry for food and a plot)
Getting Stoned with Savages, J Maarten Troost (A6 K6) (life after two years on a tropical island)
The Johnston Flood, David McCullough (A7 K7)
Confessions of an Economic Hitman, John Perkins (A6 K7) (Very Interesting, Scary Read)
Inside the US Embassy, none (Anr K5) (descriptions of jobs, experiences, etc)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, JK Rawling (A9 K9)
The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd (A8 K8)
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hasseini (A9 K8)
The Tao of Pooh, Benjamin Hoff (A6 K6)
Don't Kill the Cow too Quick, Malcolm Henderson (A4 K5) (about Panamá, which was good for +1 or 2)
Midwives, Chris Bohjalian (A7 K8)
Living on the Edge, Peace Corps authors (A5 K4)
American Dreams, Dan Rather (A4 K3) BAD
Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson (A8 K8)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers (A7 K7) Each word of the title is true at some point, but not in proportion
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, JK Rawling (A8 K8)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, JK Rawling (A7 K8)

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