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		<title>What destiny will you choose?</title>
		<link>http://wanderingjoy.wordpress.com/2011/11/30/what-destiny-will-you-choose/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Puppy love</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So there other day I wrote about those friends you find, especially abroad, that you just feel so comfortable with right from the beginning. Jules is one of those friends. A vet student from Austria, she was here doing an internship/volunteer experience with a local vet clinic. She&#8217;s one of those people that just feel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wanderingjoy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12996227&amp;post=984&amp;subd=wanderingjoy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>finding the friends you love</title>
		<link>http://wanderingjoy.wordpress.com/2011/11/26/finding-the-people-you-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 15:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[changing my perspective]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dominican Republic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fun with friends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life changing moments]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the really interesting dynamics about living abroad is how quickly you can make new friends with other travelers. Not just acquaintances, but the types of friends you sit around all night talking about the meaning of life, your childhood pet fish, the challenges of helping the poor and you can really question if all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wanderingjoy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12996227&amp;post=972&amp;subd=wanderingjoy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Santo Domingo</title>
		<link>http://wanderingjoy.wordpress.com/2011/10/29/santo-domingo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 14:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently just finished reading the “The Brief and Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao” by Junot Diaz. This book, in the most captivating way, weaves together the past and horrible history of the Dominican Republic with all the flavor of the current-day DR, the lives of Domincans living in the US, and so accurately gives [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wanderingjoy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12996227&amp;post=962&amp;subd=wanderingjoy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ten years ago, today.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 04:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ten years ago today. We are all remembering exactly where we were ten years ago today. September 11th, 2001. Where we were when we first heard that the world would no longer be the same. And there is such a urge, to share that story.  In official memorial ceremonies, in personal conversations, even as a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wanderingjoy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12996227&amp;post=948&amp;subd=wanderingjoy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>cholita selling her sheep in the mercado</title>
		<link>http://wanderingjoy.wordpress.com/2011/05/06/cholita-selling-her-sheep-in-the-mercado/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 15:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wanderingjoy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[April 2011]]></category>
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		<title>the man trying to coathanger the lock of an old VW beetle</title>
		<link>http://wanderingjoy.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/the-man-trying-to-coathanger-the-lock-of-an-old-vw-beetle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 15:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyday I walk down my road, past my neighbor, the Argentine Ambassador.  I know its where hes my neighbor because there is a gold plaque on the wall announcing it to the world: Residence of the Argentine Ambassador.  Which I think would be the perfect proclamation to thieves, terrorists and all general crazies. But after they put up that plaque, they must have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wanderingjoy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12996227&amp;post=902&amp;subd=wanderingjoy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>not to make you too jealous or anything, but this is the view from the porch outside my bedroom&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://wanderingjoy.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/not-to-make-you-too-jealous-or-anything-but-this-is-the-view-from-the-porch-outside-my-bedroom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Bolivian Ocean</title>
		<link>http://wanderingjoy.wordpress.com/2011/04/23/the-bolivian-ocean/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the plaza by my house is an extremely large statue of a man, Eduardo Avaroa. He is a Bolivian military leader. But unlike most other countries, that put their war heroes in gallant poses- on top large warhorses, swords extended, showing how they will conquer all foes- Eduardo Avaroa is fallen to the ground, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wanderingjoy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12996227&amp;post=932&amp;subd=wanderingjoy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>children who cant be children</title>
		<link>http://wanderingjoy.wordpress.com/2011/04/04/children-who-cant-be-children/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wanderingjoy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[April 2011]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The little girl little comes up to us quietly asking for a peso. She cant be more than 4 years old. As much as their little faces make me sad, I don’t ever give money to kids begging (ever seen the movie ‘Slum Dog Millionaire’? well, it really happens). But Francisco is always bit more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wanderingjoy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12996227&amp;post=913&amp;subd=wanderingjoy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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