ARRIVED!!

so i just arrived at my sight tuesday. haha i was a little freaked the first night. didnt know anybody. could barely understand them. had no idea what i was going to do. but after a day i realized that everything would come with time and i kinda settled down a little bit.
but my site (for jisi) is amazing and very tranquilo. my day will normally go as follows. wake up at 8 and go to the municipalidad to sit there and drink terere and do nothing because they all talk in guarani and i dont think they do too much anyways haha.
then after about an hour i go to the computer salon and help people out with computer issues and play on the computer until about 11

afterwards i go next door to the justice house where i drink terere outside with my host brother and his friends for two hours. still not sure what happens there but ill figure it out someday. then at about 1 i go home for lunch.
laydown for a little bit because the day has made me tired. then i figure out something to do for an hour or two and then play soccer with some guys. then dinner. and then who knows what comes next!!!! haha

but its good because i need a break after a long 3 months of hardcore training. this life will change though once i start finding more things to do.

BUT already i have done a lot in the past week.

ive met sooo many people. i went to the colegio where i introduced myself to every class and even practiced dancing with the dance class. haha they talked about it on the radio too!

worked in the huerta. garden. with my host dad. talked him about lumbricultura wich is creating a more rich abono (fertilizer) using worms. he seemed really interested and i think we are going to try starting it as a project and im hoping other people which catch and and try it as well. because it really does work amazingly.!!!

then yesterday me and my brother bought some materials and started making glasses and wine glasses out of wine bottles. an awesome project i learned during trainig and was a lot of fun. and of course to celebrate we had to throw a little get together in his backyard and test them out....of course!

last night also i went to my first meeting with the cultural commission. they were talking about how to survive the elections because a new municipaility could be put in place and they want to ensure they it will still recognize them as a commission. i was surprised but actually understand a lot of what they were saying. haha i think it surprised them too. i responded to something someone said and they all stared at me with mouths open because they were not expecting me to make a noise for at least a year i think haha

anyways.....its been the most eventful but chilled week of my life and i cant wait to see whats going to happen...

love you guys, miss you,

charlie

Jurnamento

ola,

so friday we all came down to the capital of asuncion. there we checked in at the hotel, dressed up, and made our way over to the us embassy for jurnamento, swearing in. it was a nice little ceremony and i think they put us in the news too.
so officially, finally, after a year of waiting and three months of training we are VOLUNTEERS BABY!!!
haha friday was followed by a 48 hour celebration in asuncion!
i am heading back to ypane today until tuesday, to hang out a bit and say good bye to the fam. then tuesday, off to yegros!

finally started to heat up a little bit hear which is nice. hotel had a pool. yesterday went to a movie. saw plan b, or i think its the back up plan. whatever it was, it was terrible.
today we went and saw INCEPTION. AMAZING!!!!!!!!!i cant even begin to describe how much i loved the movie. haha felt weird leaving the mall tho. watching a movie in english, eating mcdonalds, i forgot where i was for a while. haha didnt realize how much i kinda missed that stuff. but o well, good to get one last taste. now i see why volunteers manage to make it back to the capital at least once a month!

other than that, not much. kinda sad, saying good bye to some people. but we will all be relatively close, sort of...
this weekend is the partido clasico. where the biggest two rivals in paraguayan futbol are playing against eachother, so the streets are dead right now haha everybody is watching. olimpia vs cerro. i am an olimpista. not sure the difference, only that they have different colors.


anyways, hope all is well! love you guys.

next time i post it will be from my sight!!

jajo'topata