Hi guys. I´m on my lunch break on my only day this week to use the internet. I wrote out a whole blog entry then forgot my jump drive. The internet here is amazingly slow. Like US 1991 slow.
Everything´s good. I think I might have a chance to post some more on Saturday. I will have a chance to use a phone that day as well, midday. We´ll see how difficult it is.
I can´t check my emails right now. Feeling a bit rough about that. But, I´ll post more soon. I have to get back and eat. Sorry. Love you guys and thinking of everyone. I´m really happy here and all is well.
Stories of NOW RETURNED Peace Corps Volunteer Paulita, former couch potato who left America seeking a little relief from long-term effects of exposure to American culture and a life that actually feels like living. Would she find it? Read on to find out. Not an official Peace Corps page. Also, the things stated here are of my own opinion. Wish I had more time to edit this, but that's the way the mop flops. Enjoy all the same.
Necessary Vocab
Ao Poí: Guaraní for “fine cloth”, this is the craft produced in Yataity and other areas of Paraguay
Bombilla: Straw from drinking mate or terere, made from metal or other material and with a filter on the bottom
Chuchi: Fancy or fufu or expensive
Cocido: A hot drink made from burning yerba and sugar with a piece of carbon and mixing with water or milk
Guampa: Vessel for drinking terere
Guapo/-a: Usually this means attractive in Spanish, but here it means hardworking
Guaraní: Indigenous language of Paraguay
Huerta: Vegetable garden
Lindo: Pretty or neat
Mate: Like terere but with hot water
Sin Vergüeza: Without shame. This could be used as an adjective or a noun, that someone is a sin vergüeza, someone without shame.
Terere: National pastime/beverage of Paraguay, drank with yerba in a guampa and cold water poured for every turn
Yerba: Plant grown in Paraguay and ground up to make terere, cocido or mate
Bombilla: Straw from drinking mate or terere, made from metal or other material and with a filter on the bottom
Chuchi: Fancy or fufu or expensive
Cocido: A hot drink made from burning yerba and sugar with a piece of carbon and mixing with water or milk
Guampa: Vessel for drinking terere
Guapo/-a: Usually this means attractive in Spanish, but here it means hardworking
Guaraní: Indigenous language of Paraguay
Huerta: Vegetable garden
Lindo: Pretty or neat
Mate: Like terere but with hot water
Sin Vergüeza: Without shame. This could be used as an adjective or a noun, that someone is a sin vergüeza, someone without shame.
Terere: National pastime/beverage of Paraguay, drank with yerba in a guampa and cold water poured for every turn
Yerba: Plant grown in Paraguay and ground up to make terere, cocido or mate
My address
Paulita
Cuerpo de Paz
Yataity, Guaira
5140
Paraguay
Cuerpo de Paz
Yataity, Guaira
5140
Paraguay
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