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How to Use Three Potatoes and a Stuffed Dummy for Bringing in the New Year
Three potatoes and a stuffed dummy?
Want to know hot to use three potatoes and a stuffed dummy for bringing in the New Year? Well here’s the scoop.
During the latter part of December in Colombia and Ecuador, an effigy of the old year is stuffed with sawdust, wood chips, shredded paper and other flammables. The body is seeded with a few well-placed firecrackers as well. The head is often a papier-mâché mask not infrequently resembling a famous p Read More...
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All About Bull Fighting
I didn’t know all about bull fighting until I went to Ecuador some years back. An official of the State Department in Washington D.C. asked if I would go down to Ecuador and give some engineering advice to a group of manufacturers and government people. Since it didn’t cost me anything to give this service, I decided to hop a plane and head south-a-way.
Always pleasure before business on such trips, I met my guide from the State Department and w Read More...
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Try Thinking In Spanish
To learn Spanish, or for that matter any language, can be a lot of work. Rote memorization will be required of course, but are there also easier ways? Many, actually. You can label things around the house using your new language, for example. You can listen to language CDs and tapes while you are driving. You can also do what I did to learn Spanish. You can think in Spanish.
How I Learned Spanish
For about six weeks before going to Ecuador, I s Read More...
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