happy 4th of july guys haha not even but close.
today we had class in the morning but got a ride to the US embassy in Asuncion. they were having a pre 4th of july party. all the peace corps volunteers in the country showed up. pretty cool. lots of food, booze, futbol and volleyball. the embassy here is nutz. its a huge compound that is gorgeous inside and takes up about 4 city blocks.
haha i even accidentally met the embassador. was a little bit tipsy and almost did made a fool of myself before i knew who she was. thankfully someone alerted to the fact and i changed me course of action.
but it was really cool getting to meet a lot of active volunteers, some of which are the ones that we are going to be replacing.
think we are going back to asuncion tomorrow night to party once again with the volunteers for the 4th.
hope you guys are having a blast and seeing some fireworks for me.
love you
charley
Friday, July 2, 2010
Thursday, July 1, 2010
tranquilopa
so life here is amazing. very tranquilo (chilled out).
its soo cool that you walk down the street and say hello to every single person that you pass haha well actualy you say good bye, adios, which is kind of hard to get use to but fun.
life is very relaxed. people just sit outside all day drinking terere during the day and mate at night (just a hot version of terere). it is pretty much water that you poor into a guamba which is a cup filled with herbs and you drink it out of a bombilla which is a filtered straw. everybody and i mean everybody walkes around carrying a thermost and a cup. people will invite you over to drink all the time. it is more of a social thing haha but very awesome and addicting. but apparently it turns your teeth green by the end of service haha they make a poinbt of saying that they will not pay for whitening your teeth.
anyway
we have partnered up and started looking for small projects to do while we are here. me and andrea are partners and we have decided to try and get lighposts put into the areas where it is dark so that people wont have to be scared when walking down the street and night and to hopefully lessen the crime. we will see how it goes.
love you guys
ciaociao
carlo
its soo cool that you walk down the street and say hello to every single person that you pass haha well actualy you say good bye, adios, which is kind of hard to get use to but fun.
life is very relaxed. people just sit outside all day drinking terere during the day and mate at night (just a hot version of terere). it is pretty much water that you poor into a guamba which is a cup filled with herbs and you drink it out of a bombilla which is a filtered straw. everybody and i mean everybody walkes around carrying a thermost and a cup. people will invite you over to drink all the time. it is more of a social thing haha but very awesome and addicting. but apparently it turns your teeth green by the end of service haha they make a poinbt of saying that they will not pay for whitening your teeth.
anyway
we have partnered up and started looking for small projects to do while we are here. me and andrea are partners and we have decided to try and get lighposts put into the areas where it is dark so that people wont have to be scared when walking down the street and night and to hopefully lessen the crime. we will see how it goes.
love you guys
ciaociao
carlo
Monday, June 28, 2010
dia de san juan
haha or something like that..... anyways
me and my amigos have been taking local dance classes and learning traditional parguayo dance kind of like polk and the past few nights we have been dancing in the plaza infront of all the people with our paraguayn girl pernters. hahah tons of people came to watch us and we gotta do it agian tonight.
ill get pictures up eventually haha but we get dressed up in black pants, white shirts, banderas around our wastes and bandanas around our necks and sombreros. hahaha que lindo.
the past week has been a big celebration in our town for a patron de jesus or something like that. there are a lot of dias de saints so its hard to get the story straight. but there is a scary looking ferris wheel and a lot of little tents selling stuff and music blasting.
the weekend was a huge part in the disco. people from all over came to dance.
mmm im trying to think quick because i am hungry.
love all you guys and ill try to post a more complete story later but
love you guys
charlie
me and my amigos have been taking local dance classes and learning traditional parguayo dance kind of like polk and the past few nights we have been dancing in the plaza infront of all the people with our paraguayn girl pernters. hahah tons of people came to watch us and we gotta do it agian tonight.
ill get pictures up eventually haha but we get dressed up in black pants, white shirts, banderas around our wastes and bandanas around our necks and sombreros. hahaha que lindo.
the past week has been a big celebration in our town for a patron de jesus or something like that. there are a lot of dias de saints so its hard to get the story straight. but there is a scary looking ferris wheel and a lot of little tents selling stuff and music blasting.
the weekend was a huge part in the disco. people from all over came to dance.
mmm im trying to think quick because i am hungry.
love all you guys and ill try to post a more complete story later but
love you guys
charlie
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