Westfalenhaus Asuncion

... leaders, not nearly adults, ignored the commotion and chatted with each other. <br><br>I tried to ignore them by searching out the window for serenity hidden in the passing green mountains or blue watery coast. While the children sought enjoyment in annoying each other, I lost myself in the little red-roofed villages sprouting from the hills and the golden hair of the grain fields. The trainride transformed into a fairytale for me as we dipped ...

... so this side trip wasn't wasted.<br><br>Then we wandered back through the town stopping at Casa de los Picos - a large building whose facade is adorned with diamond shaped stones. There were 'knots' of young adolescents hanging around outside the building, smoking and talking - it didn't take us long to find out why - the building houses an art school as well as an exhibition hall! The exhibition that was featured was concerning the Franco years and consisted of ...

... street. So, with us being in the left lane we figured this out when a bus tried to make a right hand turn into our lane! Luckily, we were able to swerve into the right lane and avoid an early end to our vacation.<br> We eventually came upon a motorcycle cop and we asked him how to get to Segovia. He told us, all in Spanish of course, and we thought we were going the right way, but we were not. So, we stopped and asked a taxi driver. Conrad says ...

... from Valladolid). It was pretty funny...as we drove through the towns people would wave at the bus and jump around and stuff. When the bus stopped in Segovia there were some disappointed looking Spaniards as we got off the bus. I'm thinking they weren't exactly hoping for a group of American tourists.<br><br>The first main structure in the city we saw was the Roman aqueduct. It was built between the 1st and 2nd century AD, and goes ...

... br>- The beef is incredible. Most, if not all, cows from Paraguay and Argentina are raised naturally, and the meat - whether grilled, breaded and fried, stuffed in an empanada, or otherwise - is superb. <br>- The diversity of people here surprised me. Besides the "typical" Latin Americans - mestizos (descendants of mixed Spanish and indigenous heritage), there are a fair number of people of indigenous, Italian, German, English, Japanese ...

... I did lose my manners at one point, spitting as I did from a viewing gallery, he deserved it the mannerless recipient down below though. Apparently there are killer caterpillars there, who knew?<br><br>It was all very happy families on the way home and our team were cooking dinner that evening so the craic was quite good. Oh that&#8217;s right the horrible couple left, but not before rooting around the cab in jack, allegedly for a lost corkscrew but managed to create ...

... but class was canceled for a local holiday, so I couldn't. We are also replacing the roof of the school. The money was donated by a NO called Plan, which is one of these organizations that you see on TV: "for just such and such dollars per day you can give this child..." etc, but the community has to put in the labor to do it. So we had a meeting last week for the men to sign up for days to work. I volunteered for one, and then got ...

... rien faire, à nous détendre. J'ai en particulier le souvenir d'une soirée à regarder "Lost in Translation", le film de Sofia Coppola, à plat ventre sur le lit en mangeant des chocolats. :) Dure vie...<br><br>La dernière chose que nous avons fait, la veille du départ de Daniela, fut d'essayer de lui trouver une guitare. Nous avions entendu que dans une petite ville à proximité d'Asunción, Luque, de nombreux artisans fabriquent des guitares et des harpes, alors nous sommes allés voir ...

... is damn near uninhabitable by people who are adapted to living off of food and water) We visited all the volunteers from the newest agriculture group and did site presentations for each of them and now we are moving on to visiting the volunteers who have been in their communities for a year. I would say we spend 35% of our time in the office and 65% in the campo, which is why I love what I'm doing. I recently helped organize a ...

... to them. This area was so dimly lit you couldn't see from afar. Since there was nothing better to do, I went inside the toilet. Luckily a train just arrived and an old man went along with me. Inside the toilets were two men occupying the first two urinals at the time I went in. So ...