Aparthotel Westfalic Asuncion

... soon too (yummy).

So I am going Brazil in early October!! Just about two weeks from now. I am meeting up with my friends Kevin and Ben who are on a round the world trip in Rio. I'll be there for about a week, I picked up my visa today. I am really excited. I really need a vacation at this point. I'll post or give my plans and contact information to someone back home so that you all know where I will be.

... dark. Some do just the four doors and the back windshield, while others also put window tinting across the top and bottom of the front windshield so that they see out of a fairly narrow band of non-tinted glass. Theft is that big a problem.
- There is an incredibly big informal sector, which is "economic activity that isn't taxed or monitored by the government (according to Wikipedia)." Sometimes, in American cities, there are a few people ...

... my friend).

I slept covertly in my new room that night, I say sleep but the ear plugs and the howling dogs did little to block out the noise coming from yer sober one in my original room next door. Today is a free day cos the weather was ***** (it would turn out to be the least ***** one of the 3 ironically) so we sat around drinking coffee before cadging a lift into town to go and see this big dam. We had to first watch this movie (read propaganda) before getting ...

... were on a coach in no time on our way to Acunsion.
That night we stayed in a nice enough, albeit a little ´weird´ hotel just out of town. The city was anything but traveller friendly. Noone spoke any English and we were looked at like aliens by everyone! This is unsuprising as the Paraguayan people are one of the most indigenous cultures in the continent, and travellers are not seen here often.
When exploring ...

Hello family and friends, I hope all is going well in the US. It's Saturday afternoon and I've come into town to get a few things done. I got a hair cut for the first time since I've been here, and it really does not look the same, but I guess it will do. I also need to pick up a few things before I head out for long field practice next week. But no where in town has contact lens solution, so I'll have to get that next time I'm in Asuncion. The last ...

... Anyway, I hope you all enjoy the video and you will probably be thinking "This is considered a fabulous apartment?!?" Let me tell you, compared to what I was living in before, my apartment in the city is FAAABULOUS! What have I been up to? Livin' the dream. I travel around paraguay a lot with my boss, and I love it. Keeping in mind that only 50% of PY's land area holds 98% of it's population (the other part... called "The Chaco ...

... map project at the jail...finished our grant for a new classroom at my school (keep your fingers crossed for us)...finished my English class with my youth...now it's vacation time and on to summer projects. Mainly summer camps and I'll start up my English class again after the holidays. Then the new group of volunteers will be arriving (the ones that will replace my group)...and then I'll be heading back to the states! Hope you all have a great Thanksgiving! :)

... when there is none. It's just a fashion statement. All the US cafes have them, so it must be cool. The plate glass for cafes comes that way, pre-engraved, Visa and MC too, smokers' section also. That's a cruel hoax for us wi-fi users, all plugged in and no place to go. Where's the consumer protection? The food sucks; read: 'too similar to American food', at least pre-Chinese America. The Chinese don't seem to have gotten here yet, not in any ...

Ich habe das Gefühl, ich bin schon ewig hi**. Kein Wund**, denn ich sehe ja auch imm** mehr od** we***** das Gleiche. Trotzdem geht es mir blendend. Gest**n ist ein neu** deutsch** Praktikant, Johnny, angekommen und als ob es nicht b**eits **freulich genug wäre, dass ich nun endlich wied** flüssige Gespräche üb** and**e Themen als Essen und Wett** führen kann, ist sein Spanisch auch noch grottenschlecht. Ich will nicht schadenfreudig sein, ab** es ist doch aufbauend zu wissen, dass jemand ...

... turned over his computer lab keys to the newly selected computer lab directors, Mirian and Meny. Over the next few months Adam will be training them in computer lab administration, as well as more advanced computer use. They will take over for him gradually and will be fully in charge after we leave in December. We are currently trying to come up with a plan for compensating them financially for their work - as of now they are doing it voluntarily, though probably ...