Cecilia Asuncion

... soon too (yummy). <br><br>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. <br>- 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 ...

... Jack so were informed they were cooking dinner for the rest of us, needless to say this did not go down well (given the delay the night before) but my advice was unheeded and as you can imagine an almighty row broke out later that night after the separatists delayed the start of dinner in protest and resulted in one of them being informed that he was never allowed to eat on the truck again, I hid behind some bushes for the most part (these same bushes would later ...

... is where Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay all meet. <br>The next day we chose to see the Iguazu Falls from the Brazilian side (said to be the best view), so caught a bus there and the Falls were simply spectacular. The photos say it all! The falls are in a national park so the wildlife around them is amazing: racoons, huge lizards, beautiful butterflies, gigantic ants even! On our return to the Argentinian side we ...

... field. On Saturday, about 30 men came out to house to start clearing the land for the field. The mayor came out with tractors from the municipality as well while pulling strings on his cell to get more money for the field (I have way too much that I could say about about politics, political favors, who knows who from what I have observed from getting this field built, but I am going to have to save that for another time, but it speaks to the core of the work of ...

I'm at the Peace Corps office on vacation (yah!)...leaving to go to Buenos Aires tomorrow! I can't wait! Going to be gone a week and then come back in time for Thanksgiving with PCVs and then my wedding! December 6, 2008...just running errands around town getting stuff ready...getting my dress this PM...I designed it...with the help of a seamstress so it'll be interesting to see how it turns out! Work wise...I just wrapped up the school year...finished my ...

... an empty continent, thick only around the edges, a half-baked pizza, the southern European counterpart to Uncle Sam's predominantly northern European refugees. And so Buenos Aires patterns itself, an island of European civility in a sea of seeds and cattle, the biggest city in one of the world's biggest countries, one of the few that could make some reasonable claim to self-sufficiency. Of course that unlimited visibility is not without some ...

... the country on their itinerary, It was just a shame I had poor weather the only full day I was there. At 6.30 Argentinean time (back to 4 hrs behind Wales) the bus pulled into the bus terminal at Resistencia. I then walked to the bus city centre ("Plaza 25 de Mayo"), and in a nearby street I managed to get myself a room at the "Hotel Marconi" recommended in my Lonely Planet Guide Book.

... of school kids to San Rafael Reserve in October. They don't get to go for nothing - they have to participate in 3 of 5 community service projects (which I am organizing) to qualify to go on the trip. We had the first project a couple of weeks ago; 10 teenagers plus a couple of moms and Adam and I cleaned the trail up to the viewpoint near our town in Caazapa National Park and planted a few trees in places where others had been cut down illegally. Adam, meanwhile ...

... on my way to Conception. It was here in Asuncion that I decided to change my hair color-honestly, I saw not one woman with white hair, so I decided that if I wanted to look less ¨touristy¨, I should color my hair. Sra Rosa, the duena at my pension, fixed me right up with her friend, and I was off to the beauty parlor for a new look! Everybody at the pension was so happy when I returned! Now I was ¨with it¨.