It was super nice to have a long weekend free of any schedule. However we had company the entire weekend, which wasn’t bad it just messed with my sweet routine with my family. They were a great family though and after the long weekend I really got to know them better. They have two boys: 9 and 7 then a 3 week old baby girl. The baby cried a lot and it made me appreciate my brother who is so fantastic and hardly ever cries! But the young boys were fun to talk and play with. On Thursday morning I made chipa with my mom, that was super fun, I got my hand dirty and got to do some cooking! Later that day I hung out with Eliza then we went to the soccer field to hang out, our normal routine. That night we hung out with some of my closer peeps. We’ve started this backrub party routine, we get together, play cards, hang out… and take turns giving each other back rubs! Its silly but we all love it! Friday morning I slept in hung out with my family, then even more people came over to the house, at one point I think there were 25 people at my house. I didn’t really know what to do, so I kinda escaped to my room to work on a project! But I always had my door open so I chatted with the passerbyers! Later that evening it was just my fam and I was playing with the kids, chatting and having a great time just chillin! After dinner at Jacobs house we were just hangin out and some of our friends came over to invite us to play kings… since that’s my game I decided to go. We had a blast, good times just being silly, and I learned some new kings rules- which was super interesting! Saturday morning Stephanie and I went around the neighborhood inviting ladies to come to our charla on Tuesday about the importance of vegetables. Then we all got together and practiced our dance, which is coming along just awesomely!! However, we split up today boys and girls to practice our individual dances and I was teaching the boys their song, and they didn’t like any of my moves, so amazingly enough they all came up with their own moves, which were way funnier than mine! I was dying laughing at the moves they came up with, most, if not all of them involved hip thrusting! So good! I went home for lunch and hung out with my mom, took a sweet nap then watched my baby bro for a couple of hours while mom did some things around the house, it was fun just playing with my bro! That afternoon we went to the soccer field and I played with the little kids again, there was no way of getting around it, as soon as I showed up they were like, Sarah, put your shoes on and get out here! So I played for a while, good day! Once I got back home I just kinda hung out, worked on my super awesome project I’m doing for my friends when we leave Guasu Cora and Jacob came over just to chill for a bit. Sunday is our day at the big cancha. It was both our local teams that we’re playing each other, so it was a big game and tons of people from the community went. It was cold though, our first real cold day… I wore my north face and I was kinda cold at points. The weather is changing, its been cold all week. But it’s a nice change! Monday I had class again and I learned so much Guarani that day, we don’t have many classes left so my teacher was just shoving info down my throat, it was slightly hard and frustrating, but she said we just need to know the rules and then later we can actually learn them! Which is true, I need to know the tenses and the construction of the sentences and later I can memorize them to actually form sentences! Monday night my friend Stephanie and I made chocolate cucumber cake for our presentation on Tuesday morning. We talked about the importance of vegetables and what they contain and how they affect the body. We invited a lot more people than actually came but it went really really well and all the ladies really enjoyed it and wanted more info and a copy of what we presented and our recipe for the cake, it was a big hit! So it felt real cool that everyone enjoyed it and it was a success! The weather on Tuesday was absolutely gorgeous, slightly cold but the sun was out and it was perfect! I just hung out with my friend Liza all day in the sun chatting, reading some books, mostly talking about our sites that we would find out tomorrow… we were both freaking out a little bit, but mostly hoping that we would be semi-close to each other so we could visit each other!!
And here is the verdict, after an excruciating day of anticipation I am going to a town called Tacuaras in the department of Neembucú, its very close to a bigger town of Pilar. Its in the far south and east corner of Paraguay on the border of Argentina! I am soooo excited about it, its going to be a perfect site for me, I get to work in a health post with a doctor (which is extremely rare for a rural community, normally there is just a nurse if that) and 3 nurses!!!! They said to get ready to be a part of their team! I couldn’t be happier! Then I get to work in the elementary school doing charlas on parasites and dental health and the high school on drug and alcohol abuse, reproductive health and HIV and AIDS! And my last main project is working with womens groups! It’s a smaller town but very concentrated right on a main road, which is awesome I wont have to walk far! There is 126 houses and its suppose to be really beautiful. Tomorrow i´m going to meet my contact person from the community and then Friday i´ll go to my site for a couple of days to meet it!!!!! So I wont be on till next tursday to tell you how my site is! Love you all!
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