This is what the water looked like after we removed the top, and cleaned away and accidentally dropped in some leaves. Very dirty, and well, I wouldn't drink it. This by the way is their back up water, they have running water, but its not very reliable.
The dead frog that we fished out of the water, I'm guessing it had been there for a while it was pretty bad, we also removed a few live ones.
This is our second try at a tapa, the one from last week didn't work out the bamboo was to young, and so it shriveled up, I still can't tell the difference but I hope its better this time.
And the complete tapa with access door.
Tomorrow we are going to shock the water with chlorine, this will kill any parasites and bugs still living in the water, and make it drinkable. All in all I think we were very productive, and I feel like we accomplished something.
Last week was also Easter, here called Semana Santa.
For Semana Santa, everyone makes chipas, which are made with flour from corn, and mandioca, eggs, Paraguyan cheese and pig fat, sounds good doesn't it. Actually they aren't too bad, but when you eat them a lot, or at least for me, I'd rather have a bagel. So my mom is a Chiperia, and so we made close to 300 of them, maybe even more.
This was the second batch of chipas from wed we made about 2 more that night and then 3-4 batches on Thursday.
This was a huge family effort
One of my sisters, very happy with her Chipas.
My mom making the chipas (she's a bit camera shy)
And my Aunt putting a batch in the tatakua (guarani for fire= tata hole=kua)
They would only let me cut the banana leaves that the chipas were on but thats ok, I didn't want to mess with tradition.
Semana Santa was a lot of fun lots of down time for reading, and chatting with my family. I'm going to miss living here
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