So right now everything is pretty good. I am liking my family more and more and it is harder for me to think about changing families.  I dont know what i will do. I really enjoy playing with my brothers. The other day we were playing soccer, volleyball, and then hiding in the trees and pertending that there was a monster! Then the mom said we could go on a run around the neighboorhood. I live in a place called asentamiento. All the houses are very small and close together. Everyone is always outside hanging out, drinking tehtete, working in their yard cutting sugar cane, braches, or washing their clothes. Everyone has cows, roosters, and other animals. Also i feel a lot more comfortable with my host sisters. I say what i want to them and i think they are starting to open up alittle more to me...at least i think so. I think the older sister enjoys talking to me and she listens very well which its not typical of paraguay. I feel that a lot of people are not very good at listening expecially my host mom. My host sisters are also very smart and if i ever have a concern or dont know what to do about something they have a solution. About personal hygenie, how to behave with certain people here, what to with spiders, how to wash my clothes, etc..a lot ot little things. Last night there was a huge spider crawling around really fast and i was screaming because it was really big! :p Then my host mom came in and said not to be afraid of anything that doesnt have bones....and that i just need to kill it and thats all there is to it. i thought it was interesting how she explained it....she said dogs can bite but spiders cant do anything. But im not sure if she knows that there are posious spiders....I dont think the spiders here are posious..but they are very big. Also there are some men here who are very pushy. There was two different times where i was walking in town and someone came up to me asking where i lived, if i had a boyfriend, who my family was, where i went to school, a million questions...which was very rude and very annoying. I just told them i need to go and i kept on walking and my host sister said she does the same thing. She wont talk to anyone on the street she doesnt know. But ive realized i need to be very firm with people and say no i dont want to talk to you or i dont want to go to wherever they want you to go. The two men on the street where strangers but also people i know are also like that just less heavy. For instance i have a neighboor who is 15 years old and he is very nice. At the school he asked me questions about the food ive tried here, taught me words in guarani, and we talked about a lot of different things...Yesterday he was with me in the festival and he would not stop talking to me. And asked me too many questions, asked me to go to the church sunday, to go drink tehtete, that i could cook with his mom.....it was very nice but just too much.....so after the festival i went home. I do really appreciate how inviting people are here, it is quite oppisite from the people in minnesota....Also the other day my house was locked so i went to my neighboors. and i hada really good time. The mother told me that i could live with them. Asked me about where i am from, how i got her, what i am doing, showed me where i could sleep, around the house, etc. They have their own small shop and i see the grandmother working in the yard a lot and the husband cuttting sugar cane. They have these really big knives they use. The little boy was so cute, he was running around and then ran up to me and just stared at me....The maybe 13 year old boy was studying english which was cute to see and the other little boy showed me his homework......Also i really enjoyed talking to the dad. He was very smart and talked a looot. With is not at all typical in paraguay. Their family lived in buenos aires for work for a long time. And he worked there fixing cars. I think a lot of people here go to argentina to work. There is a lot more work there. He also was in the militay and therefore did not get the chance to study. He told me that a lot of people where bringing sugar cane over from argentina to sell in paraguay because it is cheaper in argentina and therefore you can sell it for a lower price in paraguay. But the police are watching for people who are doing this and making them pay a fine or something. He also talked about politic and about how every president steals money from the goverment. The goverment is in a cycle of corruption although there was a president who did donate houses, including the houses in my nighboorhood..Also paraguay has the hydroelectic dam in asuncion and the goverment sells most of it to brazil and argentina for a low price and what is left over is sold to paraguay for  ahigher price which is not fair at all. Last wednesday was the birthday for the political party colorado..and they have a party where they dance it is kind of odd. The two political parties here are simular and they dont want to help the poor....i dont really understand the point of them and i dont think a lot fo people do also. People say there is no difference between them. Also last ween i went to the football game paraguay vs. argentina and paraguay lost. And last weekend there was a afs meeting for three days. i learned a lot about how history has shaped the paraguayan culture. way back there was two presidents who really helped paraguay a lot. One bulit the first train in southamerica and the other helped to develop the agriculture.. But argentina and brazil realized how paraguay was developing and becoming richer and richer so they made war with paraguay. And paraguay lost. Paraguay really valued the men that fought in the war and that is where the macho cluture comes from. Men where highly valued for this. And the reason that people are very private and more closed off about certain things is because of the period when strassuner was in power, a dictator. When he was in power you could not have a different opinion and i guess that is why kids today in paraguay do not resist their parents or express their opinion. I see these traits very much my family. Also asuncion was stratigically bulit because it is on the paraguay river, where the gold and other items where transported by boat. There is a colony of guaranis that live in asuncion. Also ive realized how different asuncion is. How modern it is. they have technology and soooo much more money. here you can really see the difference. There are really poor people and then really rich people. Also the people in asuncion dont speak guarani, instead they speak english. Also paraguay has a aquipher of water..And i have realized that people put their trash on the side of the road or in their yard and burn it. so you see small fires a lot. Also paraguay smells bad a lot..the trash and other things i do not know..Also i really like how here everone shares food. When ever you have food or a drink you share it with everyone. there is never some food just for you. And they are very propper. they always give me food, cothes, tell me to sit down. In my school there are a lot of festivals where the kids dress up in the tradition dress and dance. It is really cute because they are so tiny and they know how to do their countries traditional dance. Also the dogs here are really not treated how they are treated in the united states. They are kept outside and not treated very  nicely. And the kids here also adults have a lot of black teeth...I think that is something that the parents need to teach their kids about along with contraception. I actually found a organicacion that deals with kids rights including contraception and topics such as this. Monday i will go talk to them. I really like to find a job because right now gustavo keeps saying that he will talk to the school. Also i will be able to teach computer classes in about two months.