so yesterday i had my first two english classes. in the morning i taught the young ones, up to 12 anos and in the evening the teenagers.
haha it was awesome. made me feel like i was actually doing something for a change. the are learning the alphabet and simple saludos like
hello
my name is
what is your name?
it was pretty awesome. we played a bunch of games and stuff and i think they had a good time.
they are about 1.5 hours each, monday and wednesday, in the morning and evening.
think the course will be about 10 weeks, but not exactly sure. the computer guy wants that we finish the computer course and english course at the same time.
also i talked to the head agricultor guy, who happens to be my neighbor, about the lombricultura, using worms to make better fertilizer and i think he really liked the idea. i just read up on the topic and i think we are going to prepare a charla, presentation, to give to the farmers of this one nearby farming village. im excited for this because i really like being out in the country and i think this will be a great opportunity to help do create something sustainable, that they will be able to keep doing after i am gone. and plus its a little more exciting and unique than teaching english.
in december i will be going to brazil with the highschool here. its a 26 hour bus ride, then 3 days in brazil, than another 26 hour busride back...haha will see what happens.
last night this girl erme left. i have like four really close friends in this town and she was one of them. i was really sad. cried a little bit. its going to be really diferent here without her. she moved across the country to go live in the city with her sister. nobody knows why and i dont think any of us actually believed that she was going to go through with it. but she did and it kinda sucks. but takes balls to do something like that here so i guess i am proud of her...
bueno, thats all for now
love you
jajotopata
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
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)
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)
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
ahora estamos internacionalmente!!!!
just this morning we have put our radio station on the internet...........
now you can listen to fulgencio yegros live at anytime, anwhere in the world.
you may even hear my voice once in a while so check it out!!!!! hey speak guarani once in a while so you can get a little taste of that! and what authentic guarani music sounds like....
www.ajp.com.py
radio aguai poty 90.5
scroll down and look on the right hand side.
there should be a little play bar where you clic to listen
ours is called
radio aguai poty 90.5
fulgencio yegros
love you all
jajotopata
now you can listen to fulgencio yegros live at anytime, anwhere in the world.
you may even hear my voice once in a while so check it out!!!!! hey speak guarani once in a while so you can get a little taste of that! and what authentic guarani music sounds like....
www.ajp.com.py
radio aguai poty 90.5
scroll down and look on the right hand side.
there should be a little play bar where you clic to listen
ours is called
radio aguai poty 90.5
fulgencio yegros
love you all
jajotopata
Friday, September 3, 2010
Saturday, August 28, 2010
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
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
Sunday, August 22, 2010
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
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
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
MAPA MUNDIAL!!!
so for the past...weeks we have been working on the project where the muni let us paint a world map in the front of the plaza...and today we just finally finished!!!!!!!!!
its sooo awesome and its huge! like 10 meters by 5 meters. and colorful and everything.
we started off just painting abig blue square and nobody wanted to help cuz nobody knew what we were doing. once we drew in the countries and started paiting everybody in town got to excited and started talking about it!
everytime wed paint we would get the kids and some adults to help us and everybody walking by would talk to us and ask us what we were doing.
its amazing how little the people here are exposed to sometimes.
we finished the map and some people still asked what it was. if it was a map of our country. and por eso is the reason we did the map. to help educate themabout the world.
but it was soooooooo cool getting to show somebody for the first time where their country is located in the world. haha very gratifying and satisfying.
but i will put a picture of it up on here sometime soon.!!
ahh soo cool...
anyways friday is our day.juramiento! very excited.today all the familys are gathering together for a little fiesta.
and and just skyped with jisi for the first time. think he is the first person from home i have seen since i have been out here. made me miss you guys!!
jajo´topata!
its sooo awesome and its huge! like 10 meters by 5 meters. and colorful and everything.
we started off just painting abig blue square and nobody wanted to help cuz nobody knew what we were doing. once we drew in the countries and started paiting everybody in town got to excited and started talking about it!
everytime wed paint we would get the kids and some adults to help us and everybody walking by would talk to us and ask us what we were doing.
its amazing how little the people here are exposed to sometimes.
we finished the map and some people still asked what it was. if it was a map of our country. and por eso is the reason we did the map. to help educate themabout the world.
but it was soooooooo cool getting to show somebody for the first time where their country is located in the world. haha very gratifying and satisfying.
but i will put a picture of it up on here sometime soon.!!
ahh soo cool...
anyways friday is our day.juramiento! very excited.today all the familys are gathering together for a little fiesta.
and and just skyped with jisi for the first time. think he is the first person from home i have seen since i have been out here. made me miss you guys!!
jajo´topata!
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