quick summary

Hey all,
so my town is probably a quater of the size of skokie, more likedevonshire. the roads are made of dirt and rocks. haha cows horses anddogs are walking around everywhere. the ceter of th town is small buthas some restuarants and a disco.
i live next door to andrea, this girl from florida. our families arerelated so we are always over at eachothers houses hanging out. hahanot much to do here
i like playing with my nephew esteban. hombre arana. aka spider man. hes crazy
everyday except sunday we get up at around 7 and have class from 8till 5. its pretty intense, but nothing a cervesa can´t help withafterwards.
in my town there are in total 10 trainees who i see everyday and thenonce or twice a week we come to this bigger town and meet with anothergroup of 10 or so.
friday my group has decided to start taking paraguayan dance lessons.i am excted.
not learning guarani yet. i have to get better at my spanish first!haha but it sounds cool and i can´t wait.
language is insane. sometimes people have to say things three ofr 4times before i can get it straight or sometime they just give up hahabut getting a little better at spanish.
luckily i have a cuzin living next door who also speaks english. sosometimes its nice to hang out with her.
saturday we hit up the club. it was a lot of fun. tons of people and dancing.
i have a brother who is my age so we talk a bunch and he introduces weto people.
hopefully getting a phone today. not sure tho.
will try to make a call eventually.
my town is ypane haha if you want to look it up on a map, right near guarambre.
mmm not sure what else to say for now.
drink a lot of mate and terere which is sort of like a hot or coldtea. people just stand outside all day long with a big thermo drinkingit. they are very into herbal medicines. haha think some of them aremild narcotics.
love you all and will talk to you soon
charley

paraguay

hey guys can´t post long but just wanted to let you all know that i am alive! living with a paraguayan family! and its insane haha


were in a small town called ypane

life here is very slow and easy going and im kinda lovin it.

the language part i hard. can´t understand anything my family is saying, even if it is in spanish.

guarani is nothing like spanish either. it sounds african or french or something


mbae chapa
onda
han de

for example

focusing on spanish for now haha

will post more details later. i gotta go
but i love you guys

CIAO
hope you are all living it up in the chi
good luck with everything

talk to you soon

charley