Ita Enramada Hotel & Casino Asuncion

... nothing to do. Downtown Asuncion is completely dead on the weekends. If there's nothing to do downtown in the country's biggest city on the weekend, you can imagine how fun this place is. There are a few discotecas around, but mostly people just go out to eat and drink or hang out at the mall. I guess it's ok, though, since I got to know my girlfriend much better (and that's a good thing). We've been hanging out, trying to find ways to enjoy ...

... to bed with serious heartburn and little or no beer when I was to awaken later shouting and banging at the door. I had this mad nightmare where I thought I was stuck on another truck having fell asleep and been left in truck park (I am shuddering as I write this as it recurred in part twice since). I began to come out of the dream as I heard blonde ruth jones at the door, who was to be fair quite nice and hugged me as I was shaking like a mad thing. Calmed slightly I ...

... day. That was fun, and I just discovered two more yesterday that I had to dig out. Everyone gets them here and they are really common. Other than that I have been pretty healthy and haven't gotten sick again. I went to a concert last week with some people from my site, and honestly, it was not much fun. It was Ramonita Vera, who apparently is very popular here, but I don't exactly see why. It was freezing out, and she didn't even take the ...

... notre chemin à un vieux monsieur édenté qui postillonnait et qui nous a envoyé en gros dans la direction de la planète Mars, nous avons marché une éternité et visité une petite série d'échopes aux guitares miteuses; ce n'était pas ce que nous cherchions. Enfin quelqu'un nous a donné la bonne info, nous avons refait tout le chemin dans l'autre sens et un peu plus encore, et à la nuit tombée nous avons trouvé la boutique du luthier le plus réputé de Luque! Je dis boutique, mais à part un ...

... I decided to use the money to instead work on my spanish, which is becoming worse by the second as I work and live with people who speak english. (Allthough only 8 of 24 people working in the office are native english speakers, the rest of the group are fluent as well, so they even speak in english to each other sometimes...) Hope everyone is well and slowly thawing out from the crazy winter you have had! It's still hot here.

... it to keep animals out, with machete and all. It is really fairly easy but would take a few hours if only one person were doing it. I've learned to do some Paraguayan things, such as cleaning, peeling, and preparing manioc, and making terere, which is mate herb with several yuyos - or medicinal plants - added to water. It´s drunk with a special straw and cup (or guampa) and is similar to Argentinean mate. I ...

Since my cousin Jeff (yes I'm calling you out :) )said "can't wait for your next blog" I will take that as a hint that I haven't written in a while and that I should. So here it is. I only have 7 weeks left in my community. Its really sad, so I try not to think about it. I'm really glad that I'm staying in PY. I think I would extremely sad if I was leaving PY in 2 ...

... in Argentina, so that helps. Still I've got four countries to see in six weeks, so maybe I should head on up to Paraguay where temps will soon be scorching souls and soles. By the time I get back B.A. will only be warmer as summer approaches (they give the running countdown on TV). Paraguay is the trip's main wild card also, a place where the unexpected might happen. On paper of course it's the nowhere country, nowhere nothing never no how, the only ...

We've got four months to go and I think we are going to finish strong. The computer lab is running strong we just finished up the first round of community classes and they turned out well. I at least figured out who will actually keep their word (results: 83.333% certainty you can not trust a teacher). I started with nine potential instructors: 6 teachers and 3 community members. They received free computer classes from ...

... weeks of vaycay.) I'll let ya'll know what happens, but I won't know if I got the job until the beginning of September. Lastly, I had culture shock entering the states and then again a little when I got back to PY. I can't describe fully the stark contrast between our cultures, countries, and people. It hit me pretty hard when I watched 6 year olds doing flips in the middle of the street trying ...