Tabuga Palooza: Tabuga Life!

Monday, June 1, 2009

Tabuga Life!

Life back in Tabuga is absolutely fabulous! Saturday night, after my house was officially Peace Corps approved, we had a party to inaguarate my new house! It was a blast and an awesome mix of Tabuga neighbors, reserve volunteers, other foreigners and AJ, Jason and I. We had food, an old Tabuga guitarist and jello shots. Check AJs blog www.ecuawindow.blogspot.com for more pictures and for now I leave you with these:

The Hostest with the Mostest

Sunset at Tabuga Beach

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tonsbyJune 1, 2009 at 4:20 PM
Wish I was there!
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tonsbyJune 1, 2009 at 4:21 PM
P.S. It is really hostess. Love you
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My Home for 2 Years

Tabuga is a small town with 75 families located on the northern coast of Ecuador, in the province Manabí. There are no conventional phones, there is no cell phone signal nor television signal. There are two stores. They sell basic things like canned tuna, rice, sugar, soda, beer and Caña Manabita. Caña Manabita is a sugar cane alcohol that compares to everclear in the states and is sold for only $1.20 a bottle, a beer costs $1 and doesn't get you to the point of falling over drunk sleeping in the dirt road, the men in Tabuga chose the cane alcohol and some don't make it home until Sunday night... if they leave on Friday.

The majority of people live in traditional wood houses and many live in even more traditional flattened bamboo (called caña) homes. The majority of the income in Tabuga comes from machete work done for other large owners. In addition, many families have small parcels of land where they grow bananas, passion fruits, java beans and yuca. The machete workers earn $5-7 per day. Manabí has the highest illiteracy rate in Ecuador and is the poorest province. The average number of kids per family is 6 and their diets are almost solely plaintains and rice. The more well off families buy eggs and chicken.

Tabuga is the perfect Peace Corps site. The people are welcoming and open and I really feel like I am a part of the community. I am so well integrated that the poverty doesn't affect me anymore, it's not until I share it with you all that I realize how sad it can seem.

Come visit, my fellow Tabugans love meeting gringitos.

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Monday, June 1, 2009

Tabuga Life!

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