To start, sorry I haven´t made a blog post since Argentina, we had better internet access there so it was a lot easier to write. I have internet here in Paraguay but it charges my host family per minute so I am trying to use it as little as possible. I do have internet on my phone which is great, but writing a blog on a tiny phone is somewhat of a challenge:)
So, we arrived here in Asuncion, Paraguay after a long 22 hour bus ride on the most comfortable bus I´ve ever been on, and I´m not joking, we pretty much had a bed on there, it was wonderful! But the ride was ok and I was filled with nerves and anxious to see what Paraguay would be like. We arrived around 4:30 p.m.and hadn´t eaten anything since 10:00p.m. the night before so the pastor and his assistant that picked us up took us to Burger King, good ol´American food to start out our time in Paraguay! :) We then went to our host families for the night. I was the first to be dropped of and I was not ready to leave my group yet. But I had to go anyway. I met my family, the Neufeld´s, the dad is Alvin, the mom is Renata, and there are 3 kids, Samuel (13), Tonia (11), and Marcos (8). Hopefully I can put up pictures soon so you can see them. They are a very nice family that has taken me in with such short notice. I share a room with Tonia. The first night I unpacked my things and tried to get settled in. As most of you know, I am easily homesick and I was definitely homesick that first night and I am still struggling with it but I´m taking it each day at a time and trying to work through it. The last few days I have been able to get closer to my family here which has helped a lot. Oh and the dad speaks English and the mom a little as well, which is great for me to be able to communicate but doesn´t really help my Spanish much.
The first 4 days were spent touring the city with our lovely tour guide, Dario, not sure he enjoyed that but he is Alfred´s assistant so he kinda had to. It was fun though to get to see the city and also become familiar with the buses. I take 1 bus to work every morning and 2 home...that is a change for sure. I´m not used to public transpirtion but its doable. Not terrible just not the best of times. :)
So you are probably wondering about my work. Well to be honest its a bit slow right now but I´m hoping it will pick up. I am working at the daycare-school! There hope is to have me teach English when my Spanish gets better so we will see about that. Hopefully sometime soon I will be able to get more involved. This week we pretty much just painted some Hop-Scotch things for the kids, hung out with the kids, and did any misc work they needed us to. Here there is a 2-3 hr break in the middle of the day so that has been interesting. Myride is about 40min each way so there is no point in going home and then coming back so we have been trying to figure something else out to do. When I say ¨we¨ I mean Riley and I. He works there as well, its nice to have someone from my group with me. Cara, another group member, was there with us this week as well because her job doesnt start until Monday.
My Spanish is still pretty rough, we had classes this week but they are different than what I expected, like most things about this trip...lol! But hopefully they will become useful or I might seek out some private lessons so that I can improve quicker.
Hope this gives everyone a bit of an idea of what is happening here and I hope to have more exciting things to tell you in the near future. Please continue to pray for my homesickness...sadly it has not gone away yet. As well as my ability to addapt to the heat...haha...its hot here and no AC. My Spanish could use some prayers as well. Thank you so much, talk to you soon!
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