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.....
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Thursday, November 4, 2010
mov`n to the country
so i have decided that when i do eventually move out.....i will be movin to this nearby farming community in the country. it is very peaceful and relaxing i think i will enjoy it. epsecially since i want to work more with agriculture.....so we will see what happens!
i think about food from home all the time now....haha its killer. thai food, pita inn, stuff like that, which is pretty ironic since none of that food is american.
today i am going to start workng with a carpenter to make a bag set...cornhole set. i thought it would be fun to share some of the funner aspects of our culture. and also tonight i think we will be playing beerpong...but to find the ping pong balls we will have to cut up aerosol cans and take out little plastic balls. should be interesting and i will let you know how everyone takes to the new game.
english classes are going well....feel like they are actually learning something and ive been able to root out the students that are actually pretty serious about the class. they definitely seem to be learning. so that is good.
i have a friend that drives a bus and yesterday he took me way out into the countryside and after his route we ate with his family. then he took me to this really old bridge that a train used to pass over the river....we were going to jump off because it was really hott and that water looked really nice but apparently it was too high and we would have drowned.....so afterwards we went to another bridge and another river and swam in that one....
so its been almost exactly 5 months since i landed in this country where i new exactly nobody and nobody speaks english and with no idea of what was going to happen to me or what i was going to do....and welll
i am still alive.....and still enjoying my time....and still have no idea what i am doing but its ok because now at least i can understand more of what is going on around me and i have many other friends close by that are in the same situation....
haha love you guys
will post again soon
karlo
i think about food from home all the time now....haha its killer. thai food, pita inn, stuff like that, which is pretty ironic since none of that food is american.
today i am going to start workng with a carpenter to make a bag set...cornhole set. i thought it would be fun to share some of the funner aspects of our culture. and also tonight i think we will be playing beerpong...but to find the ping pong balls we will have to cut up aerosol cans and take out little plastic balls. should be interesting and i will let you know how everyone takes to the new game.
english classes are going well....feel like they are actually learning something and ive been able to root out the students that are actually pretty serious about the class. they definitely seem to be learning. so that is good.
i have a friend that drives a bus and yesterday he took me way out into the countryside and after his route we ate with his family. then he took me to this really old bridge that a train used to pass over the river....we were going to jump off because it was really hott and that water looked really nice but apparently it was too high and we would have drowned.....so afterwards we went to another bridge and another river and swam in that one....
so its been almost exactly 5 months since i landed in this country where i new exactly nobody and nobody speaks english and with no idea of what was going to happen to me or what i was going to do....and welll
i am still alive.....and still enjoying my time....and still have no idea what i am doing but its ok because now at least i can understand more of what is going on around me and i have many other friends close by that are in the same situation....
haha love you guys
will post again soon
karlo
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
ENGLISH AND WORMS!!!
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
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, 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
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