so the last couple weeks....

so havent been able to post in a while. ive been travelling a lot throughout paraguay...started with thanksgiving.

about 100 peacecorps volunteers met up in the southern city of incarnacion where we all stayed at this really nice hotel with a giant pool. there were a variety of activities and amazing food. we got to eat everything. turkey with gravey, potatoes, stuffing, and i even got a slice of canned cranberry sauce...

the culmination of the weekended was the dance party the last night of our stay. my friend had come to the dance floor and not realizing it had knocked over a wine bottle which broke and the glass had entered her foot. she finally realized that she was leaking blood all over the place and somebody carried her out of the room. when the lights went on we saw that there was blood all over the floor. i had never seen so much blood before in my life. haha they blocked off the area then every just moved over the the other side of the dance floor, the lights went off, and the majority kept dancing.

me and a few others went over to take care of her. we wrapped her foot up with our shirts. she was bleeding heavily and almost fainted. finally me and my friend carried her to the car where a driver took the three of us to the hostpital travelling at 100 miles per hour. the greatest part was that me and my friend were both shirtless and my friend didnt even have any pants on. dont ask why...another story for another time.

we arrived at the hospital and my friend who is in his boxers waits in the lobby and falls asleep so i enter into the emergency room shirtless to help hold my friends hand and watch them stitch her up.

she made it out alive. and i think its finally reached the point where we can retell the story and just laugh about how ridiculous it was.


soo after thanksgiving my group travels across the country to the capital asuncion to have a reunion and talk about our problems and also learn some new tools to help out us. we were also able to stay with our original host families in ypane. it was nice to get to see everyone again.

the following weekend i travelled to villa rica to celebrate my birthday and my best friends birthday. we danced the night away. i ended up getting stuck there for a few days due to rain....


and finally we reach my brithday which was last tuesday.....did i have a birthday!!!

i ended up buying 1000 40`s of cerveza and almost half a cow. we had a bbq at my house and half the town came. we partied all day and then at night there was the highschool graduation where we continued to celebrate my brithday until the sun came up at about 7 am.....finally it was time to call it quits haha

and finally this last weekend almost all the volunteers went to asuncion to celebrate the new group of volunteer´s graduation and also for a concert consisting of bands created by the volunteers themselves. it was a very lindo party and we celebrate to the utmost......


so that has been a recap of my past two weeks......sorry i kind of rushed through it all but estoy un poco apurado

te amo
ciao
karlo!!