Guarambare, Paraguay Travel Blogs

Carrots
Feb 27, 2007

Cheers Folks, Just posted a few new pics. I´m back ´home´ in Guarambare, which feels great.  I´ll get my own bed this evening for the first time in three nights.  I had a great time in Lombare visiting another volunteer and seeing ...

Air Conditioning
Feb 21, 2007

... They have shared their successes and failures and have really provided a picture of what our lives will be like when we leave Guarambare for our future sites in about 9.5 weeks.  I am not finding out until tomorrow afternoon where I am going this ...

An update!
Mar 31, 2007

Okay...so it has been a while since my last update and I´m trying to remember all that has happened.  We have the whole weekend off and we walked here in the pouring rain to come to town so hopefully you all enjoy this blog!  We only have 2 days ...

chicken heart.
Feb 17, 2007

... ten trainees for UYD but once a week all of us, UYD, health and ed meet up in the center of Guarambare to do larger tech sessions... Yesterday morning we discussed development work on the grand scheme and the importance of leaving something sustainable ...

The Honesty of Paraguayans..
Mar 1, 2007

I have just finished my fourth week of training (actually just three, but who is counting!).   This week has been especially difficult, but I am glad it is coming to a close. By the time you read this, the first two people in our training ...

Animals
Mar 5, 2007 (3 photos)

Okay guys....I know you won't believe this but there actually is A/C in Paraguay.  I'm enjoying it at this moment along with some free internet.  We are hoping to get some good food and do some shopping on our day off.  We don't get many of ...

Leaving for the PCV Site Visit
Feb 23, 2007

So, I have finished another week of intense training here in the pueblo of Guarambare. Training is very intense, but I learn so many new things every day. Yesterday, we had a mission impossible type scavenger hunt type thing to the nation´s capital .. ...

estoy aprendiendo
Feb 12, 2007

... 9pm and went to see the Rio Paraguay with my entire family plus two other volunteers in my town, i saw argentina from the shores of paraguay, it was great.  my little brother, jose, who is 8, found an eel )it was dead= and threw it v. close to me as ...

Week 2
Feb 20, 2007

I´m surviving week 2 in Paraguay.  School starts this week so we are going to visit some schools and chat with the teachers.  We also have a field trip in Asuncion on Thursday...finding our way around on the buses, asking for directions, and ...

It´s so hot here!
Feb 18, 2007

... so dorky with that thing on. I do want to share an amazing cultural experience that happened yesterday. While in Guarambare for group training, I witnessed a funeral. It is very different than prevailing traditions in the US. The coffin is carried from ...

Cows on the freeway
Mar 25, 2007

... me as I´m nearly trampled by five cows running down an alleyway and straight onto the main road through my small town of Guarambare... I was walking to Lorien´s house last night to do some yoga and saying my mandatory Adioooos to everyone I passed when ...

Paraguayan Elections
Apr 19, 2008

... to send me some mail I will be grateful and will respond promptly but it will take a month to reach me and a month for a letter to get back to you. The address is. Peace Corps Paraguay 162 Chaco Boreal c/Mcal. Lopez Asuncion 1580, Paraguay

My Strange Uncle and Futbol
Mar 5, 2008 (5 photos)

So now I´ve been in Paraguay about a month. The rashes have cleared and I´m happy about that. Never did figure out what it was. The host family life has been pretty good. I have two brothers and a sister. The younger brother, Jose, was in the hospital 3 days ...

Week 3
Mar 3, 2007 (4 photos)

Okay guys...here´s an update on week 3... I survived my rat race field trip in Asuncion last week.  We had to go visit places and find our way through the lovely bus system.  That was an experience...we ended up at the PC office where they ...

title
Mar 13, 2007

I was studying Guarani last night at my kitchen table and trying to figure out how to translate something from Spanish to Guarani when my host sister in law and her two kids showed up to eat there MOZORELLA pizza alllll the way from Asuncionnnnnnnnn... ...

I think it´s week 5!
Mar 14, 2007

... Friday we had our first jornada with 3 local schools and our group presented and helped teachers make materials.  We have another workshop this Friday.  Ok...well as the sun is setting here in Paraguay I must close for now.  Miss you all!

hay lluvia
Mar 11, 2007

I woke up at 4am yesterday morning to the biggest storm since I´ve been here, it was pouring so hard that my backyard flooded and looked like a swimming pool around 7am when i was having breafast.  There was thunder and lightning all night, and those ...

New Home
Mar 1, 2007

... now. I am NOW living with a Senora and her 20 year old son in the chichi (wealthy-nice) part of town, still in Guarambare.  The Senora has had 6 PCVs before me, and I am lucky number 7!!! Her house, thus far, doesn´t lose water during the day and ...

Water
Feb 23, 2007

I´m sitting in the internet cafe in my town of Guarambare.  It is about 100 degrees outside and humid.  When I walked into this establishment all the windows were closed, fans off...Basically I feel like I am at my old gym in Boston using the ...

First Week In Paraguay...
Feb 14, 2007

... her. i took her out for a coke yesterday afternoon after she broke down and cried in front of the language teachers...in Guarambare...it was nice. I keep connecting to her. Pray with me .... for her! Well, my limit is quickly approaching. Not sure ...

breath shake and sweat.
Feb 15, 2007

... is ahead of me!!!! This Saturday we have our first ´test´, we´ll be running a day camp for the kids in the town of Guarambare and a PCV is coming to help facilitate. As for pictures that some of you hve emailed me about...not yet, tranquilo.  I ...

follow up to other one...
Feb 12, 2007

ok. so i am back. that went through. i am writing so much now because this is the first time that i am at this internet spot without my siblings, usually they come and climb on me, kiss me, pull my hair, bite me, click the mouse, close out emails adn say ...

Pictures
Feb 23, 2007

hopefully, these pics will show up.

Another week of life in Paraguay...
Feb 21, 2007

Hoy us un buen dia para todo ser vivo! ...translated...of course, it's my favorite phrase to say...Today is a great day to be alive! My language teachers just think that is the greatest quote!   Greetings people back home in the good ole USA! I ...

Hot Feet
Feb 19, 2007

I am in the very slow, yet tranquil process of uploading a few more pictures.  I plan on having some interesting and new ones soon... I am off on an adventure this Saturday morning, which I will know more about tomorrow.  Essentially, I am going ...

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Dec 24, 2007

So for all of you who are dying to know...I did make the walk to Caacupe!  9 hours and many many blisters later!  We left at 7 p.m. and made it around 4 a.m. the next day...with 2 quick stops for dinner and then a short rest.  It was an ...

Quince
Mar 18, 2007

... until we decided to check out and grab some street meat (as in a legit burger...) to celebrate st. patty´s day in Guarambare...v. different from Boston. I tried to sleep in this morning, but I only made it until 715, dang... I woke up and studied ...

Hoping to Get Some Pictures Up...
Mar 4, 2007 (66 photos)

I hope that I am going to be able to upload some pictures here!

soja
Mar 7, 2007

... Monday to celebrate a Paraguayan holiday, so a group of us went to Asuncion to get a break from the small town life of Guarambare and in search of some good coffee!!! We found a delicious cafe and I got an iced mocha expresso drink...yums.  We spent ...

one more week!!!!
Apr 20, 2007

Howdy Folks, I think it´s been a while, I´ve been busy as! I made it back from my future site of Coronol Bogado safely last Monday, the trip was actually a bit quicker than I had anticipated! I had a great week or so down there and got to know ...