I have been in Paraguay now for almost two weeks and i am getting more used to everything :) I am getting more used to speaking spanish and to the idea that i cant speak very well yet and that it will take time. If i dont understand something i ask for an explanation or what a word means but sometimes if theres much i dont understand i dont ask because it is too much. My host mom enjoys explainning much to me and she is very animated and i can understand her. My host brothers are also getting more used to me! I enjoy being with my two host brothers. The little one talks a lot and is always laughing and playing around. He copies what i am doing some times and yesterday i read them a story in spanish :) He is also loves to say my name. It is hard for people to say my name here. The older brother is a little more quite but he is very smart! And i enjoy looking at his homework My younger sister showed me today her english lyrics from english class and he sang a bit. I am teaching her a little bit of english. It is reallly cute when she says something in english. I like eating dinner with the family. We joke around a lot. They try to confuse me by saying that in paraguay in winter they wear not much clothes and in the summer they wear a lot. The mom also jokes that she will get colored contacts for the family so we look like we are all related. The people here including the family are very ammused with my things such as my jewelry and my camera. It is getting better at the school i work at because the kids know me better now but i still feel like there is not much for me to do. Every afternoon i take two buses with the afs students to another city where my spanish class is at. The first time was very fun and the spanish teacher is very nice :) And i like the town where our spanish class is at. It is very cute with a church and school. A lot of my neighboors dont have enough food to eat so my host mother cooks the kids luch and they all come to the comedor to have lunch but recently something happened and the goverment is not giving out money for the poorer people so it has stopped. Gustavo has an organazation called nueva suerte which helps to raise money for the hospital here in nueva Italia and for services for young pregnant women here. His wife talks about contraception in the schools but there is still a lot of young pregnant women. We are talking about fundraisers and this saturday there willl be a movie playing in the town to raise money. I will help to riase money and visit the women who need help.Gustavo has been a big help to me and to the afs students. He makes sure we know where to do and makes sure everything is going well at home and at work. Today there is a new president in paraguay so there is no school, which is very nice! His name is Horacio and every five years there is a new president. People vote for the president but there is still a lot of corruption and hopefully this president will give the money to the people who need it. The last one kept the money and had much because he owned a factory. There are many afs students who come to work in shelters where the homeless children can go. There are many homeless children here. Also the other day my host sister said that no one here respects the traffic laws. Here there are no stop lighs and stop signs and many people get into accidents. When im walking many people ask me for a ride but i wont ride a motorcycle. Also more people in the town know i am here which is nice :) Some people say hi kaya, people that i have not meet before. Many people talk in the town and last week my host mom said i needed to wash my feet because the people in the town said that i had dirty feet. Whichi thought was kind of weird! I did hear before i came that people are very cleansly here, which is true.