for those of you who arent a frequent facebook user.....just wanted to let you all know i posted a few pictures of my town and some people....there arent too many but its a start....oo and they are in the photo album at the bottom with the title
novmber 22nd 2010
enjoy...!!
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Monday, November 22, 2010
just one of those days.....that you will never forget
soo yesterday was our departments(states) futbol championship. between my town and the town about an hour away. the championship is a best 2 out of 3 series since it was tied 1 to 1, they decided to have to third game at a neutral field in the next closest town which happens to be only 2 to 3 hours away.
the game started at 3 and about 25 of us decided we were going to take my friends bus and leave at about 9, get there early, grill some meat and drink some beers.
weather looked like it was going to rain, but it was game day and nobody thinks or cares much about it.
and for those of you who don´t remember. the roads leaving my town are all dirt and are almost impossible to drive through when it rains, especially in shitty old bus.
we get on the road and of course it starts raining the roads immediately turn to mud. we are taking it slow and are about 12 kilometros away when bam we hit a turn and the back end of the bus starts to drift and slide down into a ditch.
what is to be done...ill tell you.... all of the guys rip their shirts off, including me of course. IM NOT MISSING OUT ON THIS!!!! haha and we get out in the almost knee deep mud and start to push. we are at this for about an hour or two. and so many times we almost get the dam thing back up on the road. but there is just nothing happening.
there is a bus filled with people stopped about half a kilo back. but of course they are from the opposing town and none of them want to come out and get wet to help us. but also they can´t pass us because our bus is pretty much perpendicular to the road and is blocking it.
enetualy we decide we will have a better chance getting the bus out if we push it all the way into the ditch to straighten it out and then push from there.
SOOO CLOSEEE we come. someone brought out a rope that we tied to the front and there were people pushing and pulling and everyones chanting COME ON YEGROSSSS WE CAN DO THISSS!!!.
so of couse now that our bus is out of the way the other towns bus can pass. and we actually help push their bus...why i dont know because they didnt help us.
so we get back on the bus and there is nothing to do except huddle together for heat and wait for something to happen. we thought we were gong to have to sleep there. because sometimes it can rain for two days and the road is so bad nothing can move.
the girls all ended up leaving in trucks that were passing by. so the guys stayed behind, we busted out the drums and cow bells and started singing our towns theme song.
eventually we get a call letting us know the the indendente of the town has ordered that a tractor comes to pull us out.
so two hours later, we are soaked, muddy and freezing but still in high spirits, we see the tractor at the top of the hill. and within seconds we are guiding the bus out of the ditch and onto the road.!! we did it!!!!!!! and of course we stop at the next little road shop to buy as manny beers and hotdog buns as possible.
two or three more times we had to get out of the bus to keep if from sliding off the road. eventually we made it to the game.
its cold freezing and everyones in the stands shivering in shorts and sandals and muddddd. nobody thought we would make, but we did. and we had our own little section of mud covered funs in the stands.
after 3 hours, the game ends in a tie and it comes down to the penalty shots. it was very exciting but sadly, we lost....so we get out of there as quick as possible. but wouldnt you know it...
on the road we are behind the same bus that wouldnt help us before. and about five times we had to get out to help them push....and not once did our bus get stuck!!! of this we were very proud. we stocked up on boxes of wine and coca cola and were drinking, singing, and banging the drums for the entire ride home.
it sounds like an awful day.....but now that its over and i think back on it, i will never forget it. it was a very bonding experience, and how often can i say i was shirtless in the middle of south america, in the mud pushing a bus, shoulder to shoulder with my paraguayan friends, singing the whole time.
it was actually amazing and i wouldnt have changed anything!!!... accept maybe i would have brought a jacket....
the game started at 3 and about 25 of us decided we were going to take my friends bus and leave at about 9, get there early, grill some meat and drink some beers.
weather looked like it was going to rain, but it was game day and nobody thinks or cares much about it.
and for those of you who don´t remember. the roads leaving my town are all dirt and are almost impossible to drive through when it rains, especially in shitty old bus.
we get on the road and of course it starts raining the roads immediately turn to mud. we are taking it slow and are about 12 kilometros away when bam we hit a turn and the back end of the bus starts to drift and slide down into a ditch.
what is to be done...ill tell you.... all of the guys rip their shirts off, including me of course. IM NOT MISSING OUT ON THIS!!!! haha and we get out in the almost knee deep mud and start to push. we are at this for about an hour or two. and so many times we almost get the dam thing back up on the road. but there is just nothing happening.
there is a bus filled with people stopped about half a kilo back. but of course they are from the opposing town and none of them want to come out and get wet to help us. but also they can´t pass us because our bus is pretty much perpendicular to the road and is blocking it.
enetualy we decide we will have a better chance getting the bus out if we push it all the way into the ditch to straighten it out and then push from there.
SOOO CLOSEEE we come. someone brought out a rope that we tied to the front and there were people pushing and pulling and everyones chanting COME ON YEGROSSSS WE CAN DO THISSS!!!.
so of couse now that our bus is out of the way the other towns bus can pass. and we actually help push their bus...why i dont know because they didnt help us.
so we get back on the bus and there is nothing to do except huddle together for heat and wait for something to happen. we thought we were gong to have to sleep there. because sometimes it can rain for two days and the road is so bad nothing can move.
the girls all ended up leaving in trucks that were passing by. so the guys stayed behind, we busted out the drums and cow bells and started singing our towns theme song.
eventually we get a call letting us know the the indendente of the town has ordered that a tractor comes to pull us out.
so two hours later, we are soaked, muddy and freezing but still in high spirits, we see the tractor at the top of the hill. and within seconds we are guiding the bus out of the ditch and onto the road.!! we did it!!!!!!! and of course we stop at the next little road shop to buy as manny beers and hotdog buns as possible.
two or three more times we had to get out of the bus to keep if from sliding off the road. eventually we made it to the game.
its cold freezing and everyones in the stands shivering in shorts and sandals and muddddd. nobody thought we would make, but we did. and we had our own little section of mud covered funs in the stands.
after 3 hours, the game ends in a tie and it comes down to the penalty shots. it was very exciting but sadly, we lost....so we get out of there as quick as possible. but wouldnt you know it...
on the road we are behind the same bus that wouldnt help us before. and about five times we had to get out to help them push....and not once did our bus get stuck!!! of this we were very proud. we stocked up on boxes of wine and coca cola and were drinking, singing, and banging the drums for the entire ride home.
it sounds like an awful day.....but now that its over and i think back on it, i will never forget it. it was a very bonding experience, and how often can i say i was shirtless in the middle of south america, in the mud pushing a bus, shoulder to shoulder with my paraguayan friends, singing the whole time.
it was actually amazing and i wouldnt have changed anything!!!... accept maybe i would have brought a jacket....
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
angepyhare...(last night)
soo last night was just awesome.....it was a gorgeous day outside and i bought cow meat to grill and cerveza and finally had the unveiling of my cornhole set.....
i wish i had a camera but there will be other oppotunities....like always my friends were unsure about playing and trying something new but then after one game, like always, they loved it and there was a crowd of 20 kids coming off the street to stand and watch us play. i only got to play the first game haha which is alright with me and then afterwards they kind of took over...i just sat back, relaxed, sipped my cerveza, and watched.
it was pretty awesome. i think they played for like 3 or 4 hours. eventually the boards broke a little. they still work but i will have to get another set made out of woood that is a little bit stronger.
its kind of cool as i am typing this im not sure if it is coming to me first in castillano or english. i sort of have it stranlsated in my head at the same time...weird feeling.
man i had something awesome i wanted to write about. it as totally random and i knew i should have written it down. but its gone now.
o well....
so guarani is all about dirty jokes and bad words. so i learned a fairly lengthy joke in guarani. it takes me forever to tell it and it comes out terrible but they love it and die laughing. jaja i feel like this is how im going to learn guarani. i have a book filled with 300 pages of grose jokes. i dont understand any of them. but if i can get through one joke a day i feel like i will learn the gramar at the same time. little by little. but it costs me a lot to speak it. my mouth is always really tired after telling the joke. major tongue twist this language.
mmmm so if people have questions i think you guys can like post comments???? in the form of questions and then next time i post i can answer...!!!
so this morning i was talking with an agricultural guy and he tells me that yegros biggest problem is that the people dont know how to sell they products or where. they really only grow food for themselves and dont do anything with the rest. so next week we are going to plan out a schedule to go visit all the farming communities and talk to them and see what we can do. im pretty siked about this.
i will keep you all updated.....
all for now
love you all
haku hina ha ha`uma helado he`e pero aipotvema
its hot as hell and i already ate icecream but already i want some more....
i wish i had a camera but there will be other oppotunities....like always my friends were unsure about playing and trying something new but then after one game, like always, they loved it and there was a crowd of 20 kids coming off the street to stand and watch us play. i only got to play the first game haha which is alright with me and then afterwards they kind of took over...i just sat back, relaxed, sipped my cerveza, and watched.
it was pretty awesome. i think they played for like 3 or 4 hours. eventually the boards broke a little. they still work but i will have to get another set made out of woood that is a little bit stronger.
its kind of cool as i am typing this im not sure if it is coming to me first in castillano or english. i sort of have it stranlsated in my head at the same time...weird feeling.
man i had something awesome i wanted to write about. it as totally random and i knew i should have written it down. but its gone now.
o well....
so guarani is all about dirty jokes and bad words. so i learned a fairly lengthy joke in guarani. it takes me forever to tell it and it comes out terrible but they love it and die laughing. jaja i feel like this is how im going to learn guarani. i have a book filled with 300 pages of grose jokes. i dont understand any of them. but if i can get through one joke a day i feel like i will learn the gramar at the same time. little by little. but it costs me a lot to speak it. my mouth is always really tired after telling the joke. major tongue twist this language.
mmmm so if people have questions i think you guys can like post comments???? in the form of questions and then next time i post i can answer...!!!
so this morning i was talking with an agricultural guy and he tells me that yegros biggest problem is that the people dont know how to sell they products or where. they really only grow food for themselves and dont do anything with the rest. so next week we are going to plan out a schedule to go visit all the farming communities and talk to them and see what we can do. im pretty siked about this.
i will keep you all updated.....
all for now
love you all
haku hina ha ha`uma helado he`e pero aipotvema
its hot as hell and i already ate icecream but already i want some more....
Monday, November 15, 2010
things that remind me of where i am......
..helping give a sheep a haircut
..the water getting shutoff everyday until 7pm
and not getting turned back on sometimes for two days because its too hott.
..having to shower with a bucket
..having dance parties in the middle of the countryside
..the stars all being upside down and backwards
..milking a cow and actually getting the milk to come out finally
..buying a pig for my birthday
..eating fruits i have never seen in my life before
..playing beer pong for the first time all over again
..being attacked and bitten by huge bugs i have never seen
..the whole town being without power whenever it rains. pitch black!
..having bird poop on my computer screen
..standing in a bus with my shirt off sweating fot two hours on my way to the fútbol championship
.....and many other things that i just cant post right now...
..the water getting shutoff everyday until 7pm
and not getting turned back on sometimes for two days because its too hott.
..having to shower with a bucket
..having dance parties in the middle of the countryside
..the stars all being upside down and backwards
..milking a cow and actually getting the milk to come out finally
..buying a pig for my birthday
..eating fruits i have never seen in my life before
..playing beer pong for the first time all over again
..being attacked and bitten by huge bugs i have never seen
..the whole town being without power whenever it rains. pitch black!
..having bird poop on my computer screen
..standing in a bus with my shirt off sweating fot two hours on my way to the fútbol championship
.....and many other things that i just cant post right now...
things that remind me of where i am......
..helping give a sheep a haircut
..the watering getting shutoff everyday until 7pm
..the watering getting shutoff everyday until 7pm
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
cornhole anyone???
sooo yesterday i spent the afternoon with a local carpenter making the what is most definitely the first Paraguayan bag (cornhole) set ever. its fair decent for the tools we had. well have to see how well it holds still. i still have to make the bean bags but that shouldnt be too hard i hope. im excited to paint the boards the colors of the two major soccer clubs here, cerro y olimpia.
sunday was election day for the intendente which is pretty much the mayor of the town. there are two main political groups, colorado which is red and liberal which is blue. colorado ended up winning and there was a huge caravan through the town. it was pretty nutz. and it ended in the tinglado, where there was a huge party that last the entire night.
finished season 4 of the office...almost, got 23 minutes left. haha i love this episode. one of the funniest ones, when toby finally leaves!!! michael is straight rediculous.
so i think this is the longest ive gone without leaving the town. it has been a whole month. nutz. i cant sort of finally. i am itching to see my american friends and go to the city. but also i can feel myself getting more sucked into the life of being stuck here.
just found out that my host brother will be leaving in december to live in a city a few hours away. ill see him once in a while but it will be a lot diferent without him around as well as all the seniors in highschool. they are my closest friends because they are nearest my age. everyone my age has moved out of town to work or study. so in december ends the school year and the seniors will be going too. kind sad.
in january we are having the anual leadership camp and i will be bringing three kids from my town the one of the big cities, ciudad del oeste, for three days of leadership activites. it will be fun.
i have also started talking with a buddy of mine about opening a gymnasio or workout facility because there isnt one here and all the jovenes really want out.
haha i even started practicing break dancing.
this morning played twisteer with my little kids enlish class to teach them colors and left and right and hand and foot.
they lovvvvved it and want to play again next week. well have to see....
any ways thats all for now
guarani frase of the day......
epynoro ojekata nde´aka
if you fart you will break your head
a three year said this to me this morning.....
sunday was election day for the intendente which is pretty much the mayor of the town. there are two main political groups, colorado which is red and liberal which is blue. colorado ended up winning and there was a huge caravan through the town. it was pretty nutz. and it ended in the tinglado, where there was a huge party that last the entire night.
finished season 4 of the office...almost, got 23 minutes left. haha i love this episode. one of the funniest ones, when toby finally leaves!!! michael is straight rediculous.
so i think this is the longest ive gone without leaving the town. it has been a whole month. nutz. i cant sort of finally. i am itching to see my american friends and go to the city. but also i can feel myself getting more sucked into the life of being stuck here.
just found out that my host brother will be leaving in december to live in a city a few hours away. ill see him once in a while but it will be a lot diferent without him around as well as all the seniors in highschool. they are my closest friends because they are nearest my age. everyone my age has moved out of town to work or study. so in december ends the school year and the seniors will be going too. kind sad.
in january we are having the anual leadership camp and i will be bringing three kids from my town the one of the big cities, ciudad del oeste, for three days of leadership activites. it will be fun.
i have also started talking with a buddy of mine about opening a gymnasio or workout facility because there isnt one here and all the jovenes really want out.
haha i even started practicing break dancing.
this morning played twisteer with my little kids enlish class to teach them colors and left and right and hand and foot.
they lovvvvved it and want to play again next week. well have to see....
any ways thats all for now
guarani frase of the day......
epynoro ojekata nde´aka
if you fart you will break your head
a three year said this to me this morning.....
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