Hotel Preciado Asuncion

... places, although it was a lot cleaner than many. The town is renowned for the petty crime, although we did not see any, and the street were full of armed police or soldiers. On leaving there we drove around the wealthier bit of town and there were some impressive houses, these were seen whilst we were trying to find somewhere to buy vehicle insurance for Argentina. We did not succeed and so returned to the camp for the night to get ready to leave tomorrow.

... the train had gone an hour earlier. Imprevisible Paraguay... :)

Another memorable moment was when we went around the markets. A whole district of the city is a gigantic open air bazaar, you can find anything there as long as you know where to find it. :) It's very funny walking around all of that, bargaining here and there just for fun, and to discover weird stuff! There are tons of fruits and vegetables everywhere, and at some point we stumbled upon tiny pineapples, the ...

... de survie non nécessaires. RSVP, au plus vite. ---------- Young man of good character, 29, is looking for one or more travel buddies for a little madness: a country lost in South America, without too many laws, one of the most corrupt police in the world, a raid from the Southern plains to the edge of the Pantanal in the North, then to the marshlands of the Chacos in the West, with a possible ...

... arriver au terminal de bus, et là un bon chaos pour trouver un bus pour aller à Asunción! Le bus était bien sale, bien lent, bien chaud sous le soleil du milieu du jour, et pour faire 300km nous avons mis 8h. Et à nouveau des petits vendeurs montaient dans le bus pour proposer de la nourriture et des boissons. C'était drôle de revenir là-dedans, c'était comme retrouver une vieille connaissance un peu casse-noisette de temps à autre, mais avec laquelle on a bien rigolé. :)

Asuncion, Paraguay terredeshommes

... OK, that's all I can write for now. All of next week I will be out in a volunteer sight for long field practice. We will be building fogons and teaching to kids at the school so will be out of town. But after that we get our sight assignments!!! On April 1 they will tell us where to go then on April 3 we go out to see the sight for a few days before returning to continue training. P.S. I have some pictures, but I'll have to upload them here the next time I come.

... on an excursion with our group.We all had to go in on our own and check out different sites and offices and meet back up in the afternoon. My last site was the super expensive mall in the rich neighborhood. The rich neighborhood outside of downtown is actually fairly nice. Lots of gated houses, some cafes, etc. The mall was incredibly expensive, or at least in comparison. It's hard to buy a $50 shirt when we are living on a $3 a day stipend. Yes, we ...

... waned. While I fretted that we wouldn't have enough food for the prolonged stay, that the kids would get bored, that we would never get out, they enthusiastically participated in their first experiences bird watching, identifying aquatic insects with a dichotomous key, conversing candidly about illegal logging (which for many is a way to earn their daily bread) and tent camping. They said, "Angela, don't worry so much. Why worry about the ...

... on the river sunday night by bus, then plans changed and we were going to go sunday after church with another couple, then changed again and we were going to take the night bus on monday, then changed again and we ended up going tuesday morning with the wife and the little boy. Then the adventure began, first we were in this little tiny van seven people and a ton of stuff. then we drove about 3 hours it was cool to see the country side ...

... Stunden zu spät gekommen sind und ich in der Zwischenzeit eingeschlafen war. Wenn ich das richtig verstanden habe, fanden sie aber nicht, dass da jetzt so viel dabei ist, mal locker drei Stunden zu spät kommen. Eine Einstellung, die ich noch öfter antreffen sollte. Das Wochenende hab ich dann hauptsächlich damit verbracht, innerhalb der Casa de Pasantes umzuziehen. Dadurch, dass wir hier nur noch zwei Praktikanten sind (ich und eine Spanierin), hab ich ...

... the town centre. I won´t pretend it was a particularly productive conversation with the cackling old girl behind the counter but despite me mostly saying "Si" in response to her questions, none of which I understood, I think we established that I was English, not American, and that the city centre was exactly the opposite direction to that which I had spent most of the morning travelling. Oh well, a minor set back, overcome by another hour of walking through bizarro streets. Once back ...