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Newsletter of Amigos de Bolivia y Perú,
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Order a
Peru calendar
for 2004!
See p. 13 for details.
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Sometimes it seems almost unreal that 40 years ago I
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ing into buses crowded with bodies and bundles packed
tight! I was often
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Be an Amigo: Vote & Join the
Board!!
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Watch for Your Ballots: Two of our current AMIGOS board
members are completing their two-year appointments and
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running for election to six-year terms. Ballots for Jim
Olson of the Central Time Zone will be in your mail boxes
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and Steven Huffstutler, Global-at-Large member, will
end his term April 1, 2004, so the election will
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Marushka Lutz Hollen, of the Peru III group in
Arequipa,1962-64, recently made a return trip to Peru with her
son Nick Bendezu. They visited her former husband's family in
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Maru and Nick saw many friends. As she says, "things
have changed!"
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Arriving in Lima at 10:30 at night into a chaos
of people going every which way, we made our way
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outside to a taxi stand and asked for a cab. "Yes, yes,
it'll be here in just a minute and will cost $15.00" As
it took more and more time the guy who took the money
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Where are they now…? Gerard Maguire
(Bolivia 1995-1997)
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Where are they now…? Linda Gruneisen
(Bolivia
1997-1999)
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I was a volunteer in tranquil Tarija, Bolivia, a town
of 70,000 people in southwestern Bolivia. Tarija is known for
its vineyards, agreeable climate, and friendly populace, where
I was assigned to a micro-finance NGO that provided loans and
business training to women who wished to start
small businesses.
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I started thinking about service as a Peace Corps
Volunteer when I was completing my Associates degree in Social
Work. I'd been working in business management for about six
years, plugging along at evening college classes so that one
day I could pursue a career in social services. When I finally
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pleted my coursework and got an invitation to serve as
a Peace Corp Volunteer I knew I was on my way!
Leaving
behind family, friends and career seemed to come naturally
since I'd been hoping and planning for it so long.
Or maybe it was that the stag
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After completing my service, I traveled around the
Southern Cone of South America for a couple of months before
beginning a job in Bolivia with Parker Drilling Company, an
oil field services company.
In 2000, I moved to New
York City, where I cur
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