So it poured really hard here when we left form Santo Domingo, and all the way to Ca'aguazu which is where we were for long field, we had to push the van like 3-4 times.
So we finally got there, and I was the last one dropped off, the farthest away from our volunteers site, about 1.5k (not really to far, but to have to walk it 3 times a day…) and monday night after it rained, we didn't do too much, just hung out and chatted about what we were going to do for the rest of the week. Tomas, our volunteer lives in a veer small house, next to his old host family, and has to use their bathroom, I hope thats not my situation (but I don't want to jinx myself), and his huerta (thats spanish for garden for vegetables), and his pigs.
Tuesday morning it was pouring again so I decided not to go, and ended up sitting and chatting with the Señora who was hosting me, and watching her cook some Paraguayan food which was really cool. And she said that my spanish was really good which was great to hear. Then in the afternoon after it finally stopped raining, we met up again, and had a small sort of language class, where we worked on charlas-- which is spanish for chat, but really means a lesson your giving in a school.
I had to leave at 5:30 because the Señoras husband works in Ciudad del Este during the week, and she didn't like to leave the house open late.
Wednesday morning we did some more work on our Charlas, and talked about a different charla, about parasites, and also how to make fabric softener, we were doing both of those things that afternoon with the committee of mothers and fathers, but Wed. afternoon it rained again, and so that was a no go. Much later in the afternoon we began work on our fogón, which we didn't get to far with because we had to did a hole that ended up being about 6'ft deep to get to the red clay dirt, which is what you use as mortar for the bricks.
Thursday we gave our lesson at the school, which I guess was successful, but the kids are really shy and quite when they don't know you especially with the americans. Later in the day we worked more on the fogón, and pretty much finished, except for the last part of the Chimney.
Friday morning we went to a plantation for murukuja which is Guarani for Passion fruit. That was really cool for me, they are really good and pretty easy to grow. We harvested a bunch of them, and so got to keep a bunch, I'm harvesting the seeds from some so that I can grow them at my site.
Because it rained so much I didn't get to take many pictures but I did take a few pictures of the plantation, which I'm sorry to say are all over exposed,
This is a murukuja -- Passion Fruit
And this is the row of vines they grow kind of like grapes.
And here's a cool sunset from last week.
I love the pictures!
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