I ‘m back in
Paraguay and things are going pretty well.
I slept the entire
way from Atlanta to Buenos Aires, so after the quick flight between Buenos
Aires and Asuncion I went to the Peace Corps office for a few hours, took a
siesta on a sofa, and then caught a bus back to San Ignacio.
While trying to
catch a bus between the office and the bus terminal 3 buses passed me by
without letting me on because of all of the luggage. Buggers. Welcome home indeed.
Admittedly for the
first 24 hours I kept asking myself “why did I come back. Why didn’t I just stay in Atlanta, live in
Bree’s computer room on the inflatable mattress and make a career out of
annoying her cats. I’m sure she would be
cool with that at least for a few months.”
However thankfully
the weather was nice for a few days and after chatting with my peace corps wives,
Julia and Casey, I fell back into my old rhythm. My wives evidently began chatting a lot
between the two of them in my absence, which I was a little jealous of at
first. But we’re all good now.
Since then I’ve
started up my exercise class again. I
had two substitute teachers who took care of the class while I was gone and
they did a great job, but the attendance did fall off a bit. The attendance has also gone down because
school has started up again and many of my participants had to go back to teach
or to attend classes.
The heat returned
after a few days; alas my water has not.
Thankfully a few days before the official end of summer the temperatures
dropped and haven’t gone back up since, which has been glorious. AND it’s been raining. Yes, I’ve heard angels
singing and it sounds like rain. At
least once a week. Maybe I will get to
take a proper shower in the near future.
In the meantime I bought a 30L jug to store water, mainly to flush my
toilet more than once a day.
If you’ve been
wondering what those odd photos with funny faces and white foam are, those are
from the San Ignacio Carnaval parade.
Some jerk kept spraying us in the face, which was obviously unpleasant,
but overall we had a really fun time.
I also had a
Couchsurfer, Koos, from the Netherlands aka Holland who stayed with me for two
nights. I took him to the Paraguayan
dance and music presentation they have every Sunday in the centro, which I confess
I’ve never gone to before. I’ve heard
the polka and seen the dances, so I didn’t have enough motivation to make the
trek into town to see it before. Admittedly
it all sounded the same after a little while since I don’t really have an ear
for polka. A pair of very enthusiastic
gentlemen in the back however, made the night very entertaining.
Koos was also
wonderful because he change the light in my living room that has been out for
months. I’m too short to reach it, yes,
even on a chair. Thankfully my guest was
very very tall and easily switched it out. Woohoo, just in time for the winter
time change.
I missed Tuck terribly while I was gone. He had a good time with his Aunti Carly, got into a few fights, killed a chicken, ran amok but always came back home, enjoyed life as a free range campo dog. I was home alone for a few days and the house was too quiet without him crying and licking my elbow. Such a cutie.
Its good to be back.
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