Coca Cola.........

So i havent posted in a while. not much has been happening but ive started to bring together some ideas for projects i will be starting soon.

ive decided in about a week or so i will have sign up day for english class. it will be 2 days a week in the morning and after noon. adult class and jovenes class.

despues, i talked to the director of the high school. and we are going to design a class i can give once a week, more of a presentation, to the kids about topics of life. haha mainly values, family respect, that sort of thing because there is not much of that here.

i also want to give charlas to the people who live in the campo(countryside) about better ways to manage their crops....

ive started to tutor this teacher in mathematics. she teaches adults in a night class, but she covers all topics and is not really fluent in mathematics. she has a book but with no answers and she has to send away to a different town to get the answer to the math problems so she can teach them. so i am helping here out and she is feeding me haha.

so i wanted to talk a little bit about COCA COLA...it has pretty much taken the place of smoking cigarrettes here. it is dranken all the time, everywhere. after meals as deserts. or people will say, ´hey lets go to the plaza and drink´ haha and the mean lets go buy a liter of cocal and drink it together in the plaza. they even put it in their beer and wine. i have to admit, wine with coke is not bad, but its pretty insane the amount consumed. haha the majority of people also think that coca cola was created in paraguay....but ill let that one slide.

this sunday is the festival de liquor. people have been busy preparing for it. including me, making certificates to hand out. but its a big festival where all the liquor producers come here. sort of an expo. its the biggest thing we have here so people are freaking out. should be fun. ive been helping the one guy make glasses out of bottles. i think i already wrote about it. but now we have close to 50. we are going to have a stand at the expo and try to sell them. they are muy lindo.

went out and drank terere in the campo the other day with a friend. the scene was amazing. just this house in the middle of the country. we walk in and there are two elderlies sitting on a bed and in a chair, chewing tobacco from a cigar with spit all over the floor. playing cards and using corn cournels to bet. teeth falling out, old and wrinkly haha with skin like leather.

we sat outside drinking terere, the chickens and pigs and cows walking all around us. it was pretty awesome. its these kind of moments that it hits you. man look where i am. that why i love getting out into the campo as much as possible. it so relaxing and peacefull.

im trying to think of there is something i am missing....mmmm probably but ill save it for next time.

i decided im going to make a video of the town and try to get it up online somehow so you all can get an idea of where i am and what im living like.

jajotopata (we will find eachother later)