The gods of weather paved the way for a safe return to my hostel last night. I had finished a pretty good dinner, set against a decent lightning show in the surrounding sky and the ominous looking gangs of kids were beginning to gather when the skies opened and I was able to leg it home through the torrential rain as the boys dispersed. Ha ha. T...

Having not been able to get a Paraguay passport in Brazil (Fox De Igasu) I had to take the 10Hr bus ride through Brazil to get to Ponta Pora. Rather than the 5hr route through Paraguay. After several phone calls in the middle of the night and 3 buses later I arrived in Ponta Pora at 7am after leaving Igasu at 6pm the night before. I was met by M...

Well, the 18 hour trip from Buenos Aires, finally became a 22 hour one due to delays and problems at the frontier with some of the documentation of the passengers - but we made it. 4th country on our trip and we plan to explore it a bit. The main problem at the frontier was lack of stamps on passports for some people - Marcos had the stamp from ...

Here it is. A list of things you can send me. I´ll be updating it randomly forever. *Magazines (I already have a free PCV subscription to Newsweek Int´l edition and I´ve found a new love of gossip magazines. But really, whatever. And they don´t have to be very new because the info inside will probably be new to me, so you can just send me your o...

Hello, I am writing to you as an official Peace Corps Volunteer, no longer a trainee, or an aspirante as they say hereª We had our swearing in ceremony yesterday morning at the US Embassy, it was short and sweet and we had some tasty chocolate cake to wash it all down. The US Ambassador spoke, the PC Director, and the assistant secretary of stat...

I'm here in the Peace Corps office so I can send photos! Be sure to check out the ones attached to this entry as well as those attached to previous entries. Hope you enjoy :) I tried to enter pictures directly into the entry. I don't think it's working (like probably you are looking at a red X and not a picture). If it is working for you, let me...