Lots of Language Training

I am trying to blog once a week right now since we have internet access. Currently in Paraguay it is very hot and has been raining about every day, which is nice to cool us down a little. On Sunday we went to a "beach" with other Peace Corps trainees, we were so excited for a day to relax and sit on the beach. Boy were we wrong. The beach was dirty and the only water was a river, which did not look too clean either. We still did enjoy the day out of our town by drinking some Coke and eating empanadas (kind of like a hot pocket).
This week we have a lot of language training (4 hours a day) and training in our jobs. Today I met with the teachers in the school my group will be working with during training. I will be with another volunteer in the kindergarten classroom, I am very excited!
On Saturday we will be heading south to visit a married couple that are current volunteers. They are both working in our specific jobs. We will be at their site from Saturday to Tuesday. It will be great to see where other volunteers are working.
I posted our address at the bottom of the blogsite too. I hope everyone is doing well!

Mailing address:
Joe and Kendra Heitritter PCT
Cuerpo de Paz, CHP
162 Chaco Boreal c/Mcal Lopez
Asuncion 1580, Paraguay

Please don´t send packages over 5 lbs. If they are over 5 lbs it will be a long process for us to pick it up or we may not even get it.

Hola de Paraguay!

We are finally in Paraguay and it is very hot. We are currently in a internet cafe trying to call home and update emails. I will give you the breakdown of the past couple of days. After sad goodbyes at the Omaha airport on Wednesday we boarded our plane and flew to Miami. There we met other volunteers...there are 31 people total. Most are in Joe´s group of Health and Sanitation. There are 8 volunteers in my group. We flew out late Thursday night and flew through the night. In the morning we landed in Sao Paulo, Brazil. There we quickly boarded our plane to Paraguay. Friday we went to the CHP...Peace Corps training center and started to ready for training. We met our host family that day. We have a mom...Zeneida, dad....Jose, a 16 year old sister..Maria and 6 year old sister Lorena. Lorena likes to watch us and laugh at my bad Spanish. Today is Saturday we had language training in the morning and took naps this afternoon.

We enjoy spending time with the other volunteers. It is very hot here but I do not miss the snow. It rained yesterday so that cooled us off. There are mosquitos. We live in town close to the Peace Corps training center. My training for education will be there but Joe will have to walk to the center and get a ride from the language teacher. Joe is not alone there is another married Peace Corps couple that are in the same jobs as us. The lady that is my teacher for education is from Southeast Iowa..it is great to have another Iowan here!

The hardest part so far is the communication. I cannot speak Spanish as well as Joe but we spend many hours a day studying language. Guarani is going to be interesting to learn.