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<a href="http://cid-7337efafa9ba19f3.profile.live.com/">Stella</a> added a blog entry <a href="http://cid-7337efafa9ba19f3.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!7337EFAFA9BA19F3!4400.entry">Will post as soon as the semester ends...really...</a>

&quot;This semester has turned out to be more extremely jam-packed than originally planned.&#160; I obviously didn't get around to updating my blog in October, but I reall...&quot; 2009-11-30T18:45:35.0000000Z tag:www.live.com,2008-08:/whatsnew/6403544982806810/0/7337EFAFA9BA19F3!4396

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&quot;&#160;&#160;&#160; All right, I know I have not posted since I got back to the States a month and a half ago... &#160;&#160;&#160; But things have been going well--busy, but good.&#160; I will po...&quot; 2009-10-01T02:54:02.0000000Z tag:www.live.com,2008-08:/whatsnew/6403544982806810/0/7337EFAFA9BA19F3!4388

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&quot; &#160; &#160;&#160; Wednesday was my last day in Lima.&#160; I didn't think packing would take that long, since I only had what I had brought to Peru two months ago and a few pur...&quot; 2009-08-11T15:35:23.0000000Z tag:www.live.com,2008-08:/whatsnew/6403544982806810/0/7337EFAFA9BA19F3!4387

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&quot; &#160; &#160; Friday, I began a busy week of spending time with my Peruvian friends before I departed for the United States.&#160; On Friday morning, I took a bus to Parqu...&quot; 2009-08-11T03:52:16.0000000Z tag:www.live.com,2008-08:/whatsnew/6403544982806810/0/7337EFAFA9BA19F3!4386

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&quot;&#160; &#160; Well.&#160; It had certainly not been my intention to abstain from blogging for&#160; week and a half, but my fizzled hard drive plus the time crunch of my last week ...&quot; 2009-08-08T21:17:12.0000000Z tag:www.live.com,2008-08:/whatsnew/6403544982806810/0/7337EFAFA9BA19F3!4385

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&quot;&#160;&#160;&#160; Well. &#160;&#160;&#160; I meant to write this update yesterday, but then my computer decided to erase its hard drive.&#160; It currently refuses to acknowledge the presence of...&quot; 2009-07-28T21:24:58.0000000Z tag:www.live.com,2008-08:/whatsnew/6403544982806810/0/7337EFAFA9BA19F3!4384

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&quot;:: &quot;Passion is not a high emotion but a steely determination, fired by love, to stay centered in the awareness of Christ's present risenness, a drivenness to re...&quot; 2009-07-25T19:17:48.0000000Z tag:www.live.com,2008-08:/whatsnew/6403544982806810/0/7337EFAFA9BA19F3!4383

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&quot;&#160;&#160;&#160; So far, it's been one of those hurry-up-and-wait weeks. &#160;&#160;&#160; Monday was pretty laid back.&#160; I had wanted to go visit Huaca Huallamarca, a well-restored pre-Co...&quot; 2009-07-24T02:51:31.0000000Z tag:www.live.com,2008-08:/whatsnew/6403544982806810/3/7337EFAFA9BA19F3!4365

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&quot;Awesome, Jill! Do you know what agency they are going with, or what district they'll be in?&quot; 2009-07-20T16:35:57.0000000Z tag:www.live.com,2008-08:/whatsnew/6403544982806810/3/7337EFAFA9BA19F3!4376

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&quot;Yeah, picadillo is a lot like beef stew. It had green beans, corn, carrots, peas, and potatoes in it.&quot; 2009-07-20T16:34:28.0000000Z tag:www.live.com,2008-08:/whatsnew/6403544982806810/0/7337EFAFA9BA19F3!4380

<a href="http://cid-7337efafa9ba19f3.profile.live.com/">Stella</a> added a blog entry <a href="http://cid-7337efafa9ba19f3.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!7337EFAFA9BA19F3!4380.entry">Finally Some Fun!</a>

&quot;&#160;&#160;&#160; I don't want the title of this post to suggest that I haven't been enjoying my sixth visit to Lima, Peru, but in all reality, it has been a lot more emotion...&quot; 2009-07-20T16:32:06.0000000Z tag:www.live.com,2008-08:/whatsnew/6403544982806810/0/7337EFAFA9BA19F3!4377

<a href="http://cid-7337efafa9ba19f3.profile.live.com/">Stella</a> added a blog entry <a href="http://cid-7337efafa9ba19f3.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!7337EFAFA9BA19F3!4377.entry">The first third of the last third</a>

&quot; &#160;&#160;&#160; Wednesday night I began set-up for the last third of my summer research.&#160; I travelled to Villa El Salvador, home district of Shalom Christian Ministries, m...&quot; 2009-07-19T04:34:12.0000000Z tag:www.live.com,2008-08:/whatsnew/6403544982806810/0/7337EFAFA9BA19F3!4376

<a href="http://cid-7337efafa9ba19f3.profile.live.com/">Stella</a> added a blog entry <a href="http://cid-7337efafa9ba19f3.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!7337EFAFA9BA19F3!4376.entry">A Brief Hiatus</a>

&quot;&#160;&#160;&#160; So, on Monday, I got ready to leave San Juan de Lurigancho for the last time (at least, my last time as a social scientist).&#160; As Laura was getting out the c...&quot; 2009-07-17T01:15:11.0000000Z tag:www.live.com,2008-08:/whatsnew/6403544982806810/0/7337EFAFA9BA19F3!4375

<a href="http://cid-7337efafa9ba19f3.profile.live.com/">Stella</a> added a blog entry <a href="http://cid-7337efafa9ba19f3.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!7337EFAFA9BA19F3!4375.entry">Two-Thirds done with Interviews</a>

&quot; &#160;&#160;&#160; Thursday did see the practical end of the transportation strike.&#160; As I mentioned a couple of days ago, the strike was a definite failure. &#160;&#160;&#160; Thursday morn...&quot; 2009-07-14T18:30:24.0000000Z tag:www.live.com,2008-08:/whatsnew/6403544982806810/0/7337EFAFA9BA19F3!4373

<a href="http://cid-7337efafa9ba19f3.profile.live.com/">Stella</a> added a blog entry <a href="http://cid-7337efafa9ba19f3.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!7337EFAFA9BA19F3!4373.entry">How John Quincy Adams became president</a>

&quot;&#160;&#160;&#160; This is from the Writers' Almanac, a listserv I subscribe to.&#160; I thought this was quite amazing, actually. &#160;&#160;&#160; Plus it was extra cool because I visited Quin...&quot; 2009-07-11T15:27:47.0000000Z tag:www.live.com,2008-08:/whatsnew/6403544982806810/0/7337EFAFA9BA19F3!4369

<a href="http://cid-7337efafa9ba19f3.profile.live.com/">Stella</a> added a blog entry <a href="http://cid-7337efafa9ba19f3.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!7337EFAFA9BA19F3!4369.entry">Lima Bus System</a>

&quot;&#160;&#160;&#160; Thank the good Lord that the paro (transportation strike) wasn't very successful! &#160;&#160;&#160; Athough it was scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, there was still a...&quot; 2009-07-10T19:34:29.0000000Z tag:www.live.com,2008-08:/whatsnew/6403544982806810/0/7337EFAFA9BA19F3!4368

<a href="http://cid-7337efafa9ba19f3.profile.live.com/">Stella</a> added a blog entry <a href="http://cid-7337efafa9ba19f3.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!7337EFAFA9BA19F3!4368.entry">Research, the Paro, and &quot;Nuthin' Much&quot; Sandwiched in Between</a>

&quot;&#160;&#160;&#160; So, Sunday and today (Wednesday) I got about half the interviews done that I needed to get done in San Juan de Lurigancho.&#160; Sunday I grabbed the bus I hoped...&quot; 2009-07-09T00:52:05.0000000Z tag:www.live.com,2008-08:/whatsnew/6403544982806810/0/7337EFAFA9BA19F3!4367

<a href="http://cid-7337efafa9ba19f3.profile.live.com/">Stella</a> added a blog entry <a href="http://cid-7337efafa9ba19f3.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!7337EFAFA9BA19F3!4367.entry">Independence Day '09 in Lima, Peru</a>

&quot;&#160;&#160;&#160; It's been an interesting weekend. &#160;&#160;&#160; After Pastor Pedro Miguel told me that my interviews with the San Juan de Lurigancho CMA church members would begin Su...&quot; 2009-07-06T16:42:32.0000000Z tag:www.live.com,2008-08:/whatsnew/6403544982806810/0/7337EFAFA9BA19F3!4366

<a href="http://cid-7337efafa9ba19f3.profile.live.com/">Stella</a> added a blog entry <a href="http://cid-7337efafa9ba19f3.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!7337EFAFA9BA19F3!4366.entry">Recovery and waiting</a>

&quot;&#160;&#160;&#160; Monday did indeed have&#160;a short night, because we all had to get up around 2 am on Tuesday&#160;so we could leave our hotel at 2:45.&#160; By the time we got the group...&quot; 2009-07-03T02:37:19.0000000Z tag:www.live.com,2008-08:/whatsnew/6403544982806810/0/7337EFAFA9BA19F3!4365

<a href="http://cid-7337efafa9ba19f3.profile.live.com/">Stella</a> added a blog entry <a href="http://cid-7337efafa9ba19f3.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!7337EFAFA9BA19F3!4365.entry">AIM Project Part 3: 2nd Half</a>

&quot; &#160;&#160;&#160; Friday was packed with both awesome ministry and tons of laughter.&#160; We began the day praying with a Christian lady who had been paralyzed from the neck dow...&quot; 2009-07-01T01:37:26.0000000Z