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I bet you all loved reading that Spanish document that I created, didn't you? Well, I got back "a few edits" today from 2 staff members. And I thought my Spanish was getting good ...

(This document is in Microsoft Word.)
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Below is what I died doing ALL day Sunday, August 13th! (I mean ALL DAY! 7 AM-1:30 AM Monday!)
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STEPS 5-6) Outline the countries & Write the number/name of each country. .
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I've written all of the numbers and I painted an area to the right of the map for the names. There will be one block of color for each continent (North and South America make up 1 continent here - America). I know you're thinking it shouldn't have possibly taken that long to do, but I wanted to number in a sequencial manner, meaning I needed to identify EVERY country first, including ALL of the hundreds of islands in the world. Trust me, it's not an easy task!

After the America outlining

My outlining system

After Africa and Europe

After the numbers

The continent blocks

The final product that day

The last 4 days of my life (as I'm sure you can tell from my marathon map making day) have been CRAZY! Read about them here.

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Building a cyber cafe in town to provide Internet to the school system. That's what we're trying to do right now.

If you're interested in seeing HOW we're going about this, click here.

If you're interested in viewing draft 1 of our project description, view the English version or view the Spanish version (which I'm SURE needs to have some Spanish corrected because I pieced things together and wrote stuff myself.

Please feel FREE to let me know what you think, give me suggestions/advice, etc. Whatever. I can use it!!

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Have you been thinking about visiting a 3rd world country in Latin America? (If you know me, you SHOULD be!) Well, I'm here to share all of my newfound knowledge about things here with you. Today's lesson? Dengue.

WHAT IS IT?
Dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) are acute febrile diseases, found in the tropics, with a geographical spread similar to malaria. Obtained through a bite from an infected mosquito. (Not all mosquitos carry this virus; and it can only be spread through the female of the type that carries it.)

WHAT ARE THE SYMPTOMS?
This infectious disease is manifested by a sudden onset of fever, with severe headache, joint and muscular pains and rashes; the dengue rash is characteristically bright red petechia and usually appears first on the lower limbs and the chest - in some patients, it spreads to cover most of the body. There may also be gastritis with some combination of associated abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting or diarrhea. The classic dengue fever lasts about six to seven days, with a smaller peak of fever at the trailing end of the fever (the so-called "biphasic pattern"). Clinically, the platelet count will drop until the patient's temperature is normal.

You can read more about this fun disease here and/or read about my experience here.

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