Joe being lazy during an afternoon nap
a beautiful view from one of the schools
our main school
our hopefully future home
a beautiful view from one of the schools
our main school
our hopefully future home
We have just returned from visiting our future site and we are very excited. It is a small town in the district of Guairá. There are about 4,000 people...two schools, a health post, and little stores people have in their homes where you can buy food and other miscellaneous items. We found out our site on Wednesday and we both had a contact from the community come on Thursday. My contact was the librarian of the major school and Joe´s was a nurse at the health post. We enjoyed getting to know them for a couple of days and left with them on Friday morning. We had to travel for 4 hours and take 3 buses. To get to our site and in our site there is a cobbled road, which is good news for us....less dirty and if it rains we can still get to town. We stayed with my contact in a very nice house. We got to learn Spanish and Guaraní from them and we taught them English.
While on our visit we walked around the community which is very spread out and it was hot. We definately got our exercise and are looking forward to recieving bikes from the Peace Corps. We visited both schools....one school has preschool-high school and the other school has preschool-6th grade. We went to the health post and visited the nurses, where we had to explain to them that Joe was not a doctor but a volunteer to help the community better their personal health. The schools are very excited to have us and the students and teachers were very welcoming. We ate a lot of typical Paraguayan food and drank lots of terere. While in site we looked at houses we could live in on our own. For the first 3 months we live with host families on our site, we are going to try and move around to get to know our community well. We found a house we loved with 4 rooms!!!! but it does not have a bathroom. We talked to other people and decided it would be worth building a bathroom and then we don´t have to pay rent for two years. What a good deal.
When it was time for us to leave we were sad to go and couldn´t wait to go back. We are so excited to start our work in Paraguay and hope to have lots of visitors from the US at our own house!
While on our visit we walked around the community which is very spread out and it was hot. We definately got our exercise and are looking forward to recieving bikes from the Peace Corps. We visited both schools....one school has preschool-high school and the other school has preschool-6th grade. We went to the health post and visited the nurses, where we had to explain to them that Joe was not a doctor but a volunteer to help the community better their personal health. The schools are very excited to have us and the students and teachers were very welcoming. We ate a lot of typical Paraguayan food and drank lots of terere. While in site we looked at houses we could live in on our own. For the first 3 months we live with host families on our site, we are going to try and move around to get to know our community well. We found a house we loved with 4 rooms!!!! but it does not have a bathroom. We talked to other people and decided it would be worth building a bathroom and then we don´t have to pay rent for two years. What a good deal.
When it was time for us to leave we were sad to go and couldn´t wait to go back. We are so excited to start our work in Paraguay and hope to have lots of visitors from the US at our own house!
3 comments:
Your house is cute! Maybe you'll have to design a giant megabath with a whirlpool tub and walk in closet like you see on HGTV. You might get some visitors then!
Take pictures of the progress of your building project. We'd love to see it come together.
All I could think of when you said you'll be getting bikes from them, is you honking at Julie and I as we walked on campus. :) Miss you sounds like you are having a great time!!
Oh - It is so good to hear your stories. I love reading and keeping up with your adventures! I miss you 2 SO much. Kendra, I have the little year calendar on my refrigerator so I get to see your beautiful face everyday! Jon and I would love to seed you a package! What do you miss most from the US that we could send you. What would be fun?!? Send an idea or 2 when you have a moment. heidi.woehl@gmail.com We love you! And we're praying for you! God really put you on my heart Tuesday - been thinking of you non-stop since. Hope to hear from you! LOVE YOU! Heidi and Jon
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