hey guys
so this last week we split into groups of five and went to sites to visit a volunteer.
my group got sent to the campo.....which pretty much means youre out in the middle of nowhere...in the fields with the farmers.....
i had an incredible time....haha living conditions were rough but i loved it.
i stayed with a host family there.....dirt floors, only two rooms, latrines in the fields, freezing cold shower out of a pipe
lighiting a fire on the ground in order to cook....i loved it
so our volunteer has been working with a womans group and is helping them start a panaderia....a bread shop. they have the building now and some machines but are still learning how to run a business...they have no idea but its sooo great...
also he gives charlas to kids in the area because they dont go to highschool....teaching them about entrepeneurship and such...
it was a reallly realllly awesome experience....me and one of the other kids gave a presentation to the womans group about what goals they have for their business and how long to reach them....
just thinking like this is new for them...
also we got to chop down cana dulce....sugar canes in the fields with machetes
haha i even tried milking a cow but was doing something wrong and it ran away before any milk came out hahaha
i wanted to kill a chicken but never got the chane
mmmm i loved the camp....the only hard part would be that nobody speaks spanish like at alll
im told that when we get sent to our sites that we can move out to the campo if we find work to do out there which there always is....as long as we stay within the city limits of our site..
we find out WEDNESDAy our sitios and then thursday we actually go visit our sight for a week....
its moving really fast now and im super excited....
miss you alll
love you
charley
Friday, July 23, 2010
Sunday, July 18, 2010
alumbrado publico
BUENO.....la segunda semana de entrenamiento, nuestros jefes nos dijeron que tenemos que hacer un proyecto en nuestro pueblo. andrea y yo decidimos que vamos a trabajar juntos para implementar el proyecto.
estabamos pensando y descubrimos que hay muchas calles en nuestro pueblo en donde falta luz y siempre esta oscuro durante la noche. decidimos que este problema va a ser la base de nuestro proyecto.
empezamos hablando con todas las personas que viven en lugares oscuros. despues de muchas entrevistas con familias, concluimos que el barrio de San Antonio va a ser el barrio donde trabajariamos.
tuvimos que crear un pedido y despues juntar todas las firmas y schedulas de las personas que viven en ese barrio.
ayer entregamos el pedido a la municipalidad para que el intendente lo pueda ver. la muni nos dijo que tenemos que volver dentro de ocho dias para saber si tenemos la firma del intendente.
que asombroso!
estabamos pensando y descubrimos que hay muchas calles en nuestro pueblo en donde falta luz y siempre esta oscuro durante la noche. decidimos que este problema va a ser la base de nuestro proyecto.
empezamos hablando con todas las personas que viven en lugares oscuros. despues de muchas entrevistas con familias, concluimos que el barrio de San Antonio va a ser el barrio donde trabajariamos.
tuvimos que crear un pedido y despues juntar todas las firmas y schedulas de las personas que viven en ese barrio.
ayer entregamos el pedido a la municipalidad para que el intendente lo pueda ver. la muni nos dijo que tenemos que volver dentro de ocho dias para saber si tenemos la firma del intendente.
que asombroso!
Friday, July 16, 2010
ps....
there are a couple pics of my up on facebook from other people...but only a few....but you get to see the people in my group and me dancing ifnront of the whole town in my ppara get up... enjoy!!!
Leadership Camp/Longfield Practice
Hey guys so it has been a couple weeks since my last post. Sorry bout that. it has been a long intense couple of weeks.
last weekend we went down south to one of the very large and incharge dams they have in paraguay that supply the country with a ton of energy. they actually have the largest working dam in the world here.
haha off the top of my head i can´t remember the name of the place but we were pretty much on the border with argetinia.
the camp was lead by a couple other active volunteers and had about 30 paraguayan jovenes. its was a three day camp and the main objective was to teach the kids about the values a leader would have.
we were there pretty much to participate and be spectators.
haha the vacilities we stayed in were the old dorms the workers on the dam had....it was pretty much like a concentration camp but we definitely made the best of it. we threw a party in the dorm room one of the nights and got yelled at for it later but was definitely worth it.
so we we got back i was engripado....had the flu or something like it and sort of finally getting over it. this week has been freezing. its not as cold as the winter at home....but the dificult part is that you never get a break from it. i literally walk into my house expecting to warm up but only to realize that i have to keep my hat and jacket on. i literally sleep in sweat pants and socks and two shirts with three blankets on top and my gorra....snowcap haha but its alright...all part of the experience. i can´t remember the last time i even took my clothes off!!!
what made it even rougher was that today i had to give my charla....hour long presentation on technology in paraguay and computers...was only infront of my own class tho so wasnt too bad. think it went well.
anyways....next week is long field practice.....this means we are splitting up into groups of 6 and going to live with a volunteer for a whole fricken week.
my groups is going to arroyos y cerros which is a town that is in the campo hahah meaning we will be living in shacks in the middle of nowhere. i am excited and nervous. we will be hanging out with the volunteer all week giving charlas and learning about his experience.
to make things crazier....the week i get back.... I FIND OUT MY FUTURE SITIO!!!! future cite
how nutz is that!!! so excited. dam and training is already half way over....insane.....you have no idea
ok well ima gooo
love you guys
hope youre keeping the chi rockin
nos vemos
carlo
last weekend we went down south to one of the very large and incharge dams they have in paraguay that supply the country with a ton of energy. they actually have the largest working dam in the world here.
haha off the top of my head i can´t remember the name of the place but we were pretty much on the border with argetinia.
the camp was lead by a couple other active volunteers and had about 30 paraguayan jovenes. its was a three day camp and the main objective was to teach the kids about the values a leader would have.
we were there pretty much to participate and be spectators.
haha the vacilities we stayed in were the old dorms the workers on the dam had....it was pretty much like a concentration camp but we definitely made the best of it. we threw a party in the dorm room one of the nights and got yelled at for it later but was definitely worth it.
so we we got back i was engripado....had the flu or something like it and sort of finally getting over it. this week has been freezing. its not as cold as the winter at home....but the dificult part is that you never get a break from it. i literally walk into my house expecting to warm up but only to realize that i have to keep my hat and jacket on. i literally sleep in sweat pants and socks and two shirts with three blankets on top and my gorra....snowcap haha but its alright...all part of the experience. i can´t remember the last time i even took my clothes off!!!
what made it even rougher was that today i had to give my charla....hour long presentation on technology in paraguay and computers...was only infront of my own class tho so wasnt too bad. think it went well.
anyways....next week is long field practice.....this means we are splitting up into groups of 6 and going to live with a volunteer for a whole fricken week.
my groups is going to arroyos y cerros which is a town that is in the campo hahah meaning we will be living in shacks in the middle of nowhere. i am excited and nervous. we will be hanging out with the volunteer all week giving charlas and learning about his experience.
to make things crazier....the week i get back.... I FIND OUT MY FUTURE SITIO!!!! future cite
how nutz is that!!! so excited. dam and training is already half way over....insane.....you have no idea
ok well ima gooo
love you guys
hope youre keeping the chi rockin
nos vemos
carlo
Friday, July 2, 2010
FELIZ CUATRO DE JULIO
happy 4th of july guys haha not even but close.
today we had class in the morning but got a ride to the US embassy in Asuncion. they were having a pre 4th of july party. all the peace corps volunteers in the country showed up. pretty cool. lots of food, booze, futbol and volleyball. the embassy here is nutz. its a huge compound that is gorgeous inside and takes up about 4 city blocks.
haha i even accidentally met the embassador. was a little bit tipsy and almost did made a fool of myself before i knew who she was. thankfully someone alerted to the fact and i changed me course of action.
but it was really cool getting to meet a lot of active volunteers, some of which are the ones that we are going to be replacing.
think we are going back to asuncion tomorrow night to party once again with the volunteers for the 4th.
hope you guys are having a blast and seeing some fireworks for me.
love you
charley
today we had class in the morning but got a ride to the US embassy in Asuncion. they were having a pre 4th of july party. all the peace corps volunteers in the country showed up. pretty cool. lots of food, booze, futbol and volleyball. the embassy here is nutz. its a huge compound that is gorgeous inside and takes up about 4 city blocks.
haha i even accidentally met the embassador. was a little bit tipsy and almost did made a fool of myself before i knew who she was. thankfully someone alerted to the fact and i changed me course of action.
but it was really cool getting to meet a lot of active volunteers, some of which are the ones that we are going to be replacing.
think we are going back to asuncion tomorrow night to party once again with the volunteers for the 4th.
hope you guys are having a blast and seeing some fireworks for me.
love you
charley
Thursday, July 1, 2010
tranquilopa
so life here is amazing. very tranquilo (chilled out).
its soo cool that you walk down the street and say hello to every single person that you pass haha well actualy you say good bye, adios, which is kind of hard to get use to but fun.
life is very relaxed. people just sit outside all day drinking terere during the day and mate at night (just a hot version of terere). it is pretty much water that you poor into a guamba which is a cup filled with herbs and you drink it out of a bombilla which is a filtered straw. everybody and i mean everybody walkes around carrying a thermost and a cup. people will invite you over to drink all the time. it is more of a social thing haha but very awesome and addicting. but apparently it turns your teeth green by the end of service haha they make a poinbt of saying that they will not pay for whitening your teeth.
anyway
we have partnered up and started looking for small projects to do while we are here. me and andrea are partners and we have decided to try and get lighposts put into the areas where it is dark so that people wont have to be scared when walking down the street and night and to hopefully lessen the crime. we will see how it goes.
love you guys
ciaociao
carlo
its soo cool that you walk down the street and say hello to every single person that you pass haha well actualy you say good bye, adios, which is kind of hard to get use to but fun.
life is very relaxed. people just sit outside all day drinking terere during the day and mate at night (just a hot version of terere). it is pretty much water that you poor into a guamba which is a cup filled with herbs and you drink it out of a bombilla which is a filtered straw. everybody and i mean everybody walkes around carrying a thermost and a cup. people will invite you over to drink all the time. it is more of a social thing haha but very awesome and addicting. but apparently it turns your teeth green by the end of service haha they make a poinbt of saying that they will not pay for whitening your teeth.
anyway
we have partnered up and started looking for small projects to do while we are here. me and andrea are partners and we have decided to try and get lighposts put into the areas where it is dark so that people wont have to be scared when walking down the street and night and to hopefully lessen the crime. we will see how it goes.
love you guys
ciaociao
carlo
Monday, June 28, 2010
dia de san juan
haha or something like that..... anyways
me and my amigos have been taking local dance classes and learning traditional parguayo dance kind of like polk and the past few nights we have been dancing in the plaza infront of all the people with our paraguayn girl pernters. hahah tons of people came to watch us and we gotta do it agian tonight.
ill get pictures up eventually haha but we get dressed up in black pants, white shirts, banderas around our wastes and bandanas around our necks and sombreros. hahaha que lindo.
the past week has been a big celebration in our town for a patron de jesus or something like that. there are a lot of dias de saints so its hard to get the story straight. but there is a scary looking ferris wheel and a lot of little tents selling stuff and music blasting.
the weekend was a huge part in the disco. people from all over came to dance.
mmm im trying to think quick because i am hungry.
love all you guys and ill try to post a more complete story later but
love you guys
charlie
me and my amigos have been taking local dance classes and learning traditional parguayo dance kind of like polk and the past few nights we have been dancing in the plaza infront of all the people with our paraguayn girl pernters. hahah tons of people came to watch us and we gotta do it agian tonight.
ill get pictures up eventually haha but we get dressed up in black pants, white shirts, banderas around our wastes and bandanas around our necks and sombreros. hahaha que lindo.
the past week has been a big celebration in our town for a patron de jesus or something like that. there are a lot of dias de saints so its hard to get the story straight. but there is a scary looking ferris wheel and a lot of little tents selling stuff and music blasting.
the weekend was a huge part in the disco. people from all over came to dance.
mmm im trying to think quick because i am hungry.
love all you guys and ill try to post a more complete story later but
love you guys
charlie
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