Crowne Plaza Hotel Asuncion

Hi all,<br><br>It's been a really long time since I have updated my blog, and I just wanted to let you all know that I am still alive. The last month has been fairly busy. I came into Asuncion a few weeks ago for an HIV/AIDS workshop for a few days, and I am back in Asuncion right now because I had to come in to meet with my boss for our quarterly review to review my work and future plans.<br><br>In site, things are going ...

... we were followed by children hoping we'd buy them food; if we pulled out a bottle of drink in the street people would approach us asking for it; there seemed to be police everywhere, as much to stop people bathing in the fountains as for safety, it seemed. But the city is charming and with such incredibly good weather we weren't complaining. We followed up the days success with dinner in town and using our now highly refined map reading skills we managed to find our way to ...

... from the US the other day. They came up to convert the family whose house has the Internet cafe while I was there. They were very pleasant and nice, and I ran into one of them again with another of his companions in town the other day after class. I also saw a Mennonite couple in Asuncion at the bus station last week when I went in to the dentist! They stuck out with their German looks, and the man was wearing overalls while the woman had a ...

... is the only thing I have purchased so far since I am still lugging around 2/3 of a suitcase full of cold weather clothes that are no longer needed. When I get back to my room I check on the super slow Paraguayan internet for any info to what channel is covering the game while also realizing my backup plan of watching the game live stream on my 8 inch computer will not work due to the slow bandwith of the internet. As 10 PM rapidly ...

... in about 50 minutes. The rest of the day was spent getting Rob a haircut and a new tshirt and then contacting HSBC for an update on the theft. Turns out that it was in Mendoza (the city in Argentina where our sunglasses were stolen) that the crime occured. We only used the internet once there in an internet cafe (I can´t remember the name of it but it was opposite McDonalds, really big and new, all the computers had flat screens ...

A day in the life of a new nurse living in Paraguay. Up at 6:55 to the sound of dogs barking and chickens crowing. The missions chickens live about 20 ft from the back of my house. They can be rather obnoxious some mornings or in the middle of the afternoon or the middle of the night. Breakfast and then devotions at 7:30 with the students and staff. After that I help out in the kitchen, I have become an expert mandoica peeler. The down side of that is that I often find out what we are ...

... sich dann auch irgendwie in mein** Unt**kunft, mit d** ich mich ab** wohl bald anfreunden w**de. Die Leute sind auf jeden Fall nett. Ich wohne hi** in einem Haus mit and**en Praktikanten (Christian aus Deutschland, Ben aus England und zwei Spani**innen). Es lohnt wohl zwar kaum, sich gross mit denen anzufreunden, weil die alle bald gehen w**den, ab** hilfreich ist es allemal. Die schlechte Nachricht: Ich v**stehe ...