the paraguayan reverie

okay! Things are moving at a really fast pace here in some respects and in others things are super slow. Family life? Really slow. We sit around, eat food, walk to the water tower and back and go to church. Pretty much it. Contrast this to going to language training and technical training, its like warp speed. We´re learning all guarani for 4 hours in the morning using didactic materials. On thursday we´re going to asuncion on a field trip/mission to meet with some environment NGOs and ask them questions about what they´re involved in and how they support the peace corps. Annnnd we have to this in guarani AND get to asuncion on our own and deal with all the language things as well. Its going to be challenging. ha. It´s really nice here right now, cool and breezy, about 85 degrees. We havnt had much rain yet, but there was a crazy lightning storm the other night when all the lights went out. It was really noticable the next day how much smoke was in the air after it rained, meaning that i actually smeled fresh air for the first time since ive gotten here. Everyone burns their garbage so it´s kinda smoky.ç

OH! Two things before I go.

1. I could really use another large size moleskin lined journal, normal pages not the thick kind. Also, a frisbee for ultimate frisbee would be amazing. These two things would make nice birthday presents (hint,hint).

2. I can´t access my email. Mom could you remove the tilde from the begining of the pass word? thanks! Ill update more next week when i get back from asuncion!

Jajotopata! (see ya later!)