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....

....

but i am definitely loving every minutes of it

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...

things that remind me of where i am......

..helping give a sheep a haircut
..the watering getting shutoff everyday until 7pm

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.....

ps

i have video taped the town and am now in the midsts of edittting it down..

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