Really a lot has happened in Paraguay.i dont really know how anything more could have happened. Although I felt a lot of stress I really was veryyyyyy happy and had developed my place in nueva italia. I built friendships, a rutiene, and was acostamed to the way of live. I was accustomed to the cows, gallinas, to walking up and down the road sorrounded by the beautiful sugarcane fields, pom trees, the beautiful campo. It was really nice because I could walk anywhere I wanted. To go buy something, togustavos house, I could enter and leave the school whenever I wanted to talk to friends at the end of the day . It was really tranquil andfree. The negative things were that not a lot of peope studied and were not very smart although there was people wealthy too. And that the men are very heavy and the women are very light they aren't as indendent. They don't get divorced much and they sit back and let the husband take control of situations. The women are also more timid and aren't as open. They don't talk as much because they are scarred of judgement. I always heard people say well if I do this what are the neighbors going to say....because of this I did not tall to many women. Also they have babies aat the 15 and get married very early. and they have many babies. I remember my neighbor who was very concerned about me and who was very sweet was 30 years old and had 10 kids. Her how was very dirty and her kids worked but she was so sweet invited me for dinner and gave me food when I was hungry.  But a lot of gossip and judgement. I was also used to the carring inviting people. When I wen into a shop the owners would always talk to me, teach me guarani...and saying hi to the neighbors when coming home, all the kids playing in the street...I really liked how small and close it was. And I did not want to leave. I found a teaching job in nueva italia teaching English from a peace core volunteer whois so sweet and amazing. And I absolutely loved it. The kids were so sweet and really were enthusiastic about learning English. And the other day a friend told me that the kids loved me too much and that they really enjoyed learning from me because they learned a lot. After that I started to cry because I really do miss it and Im not there anymore. They are not learning English anymore.  It was a wonderful place. I was also accustomed to have little kids my brothers always wanting to play with me or walking me up in the morning. I loved seeing their faces In the morning and hearing the mom screaming with the radio blasting in the background. It's the kindness,the beauty, the closeness  and the poorwayof life I miss. Seeing people work in the fields....And the fact I had no space physically and personally. Here In asuncion There is a looooot of space. So at first I went to the school every morning and I started to eat lunch at the school because it was a lot easier than going home. I would eat lunch everyday with one of the teachers in the school who became a friend. He and two other people in the town are a part of the paraguayan folklore dance team amd thr travel the world sharring paraguayan culture. I was really amazed by him because he lived in the Chaco where the indigineous people live where it's very poor until he was 13. And only spoke guarani until he moved and then learned Spanish. Also something else I find interesting is that  the people there the little kids know how to work. They know how to cook, how to sweep, how the clean.   Since age5 because they have to  and they know how to dance. i find that pretty amazing. And the teachers laugh at me because their 5 year old students can sweep better than me :p anyways I would always look forward to eating lunch in the cantina in the school with the teacher and another volunteer from Korea. He didn't speak spanish well but was always smiling and laughing. He was really sweet. And then afterwards when we talk all the little kids watch us and listen its really cute :) and the school is open and much outdoors I really liked that. The lunch at the school was really the one solid meal I had a day. It was really good! Rice, salad, milanesa, soup with vegetables and Paraguayan cheese, tortillas... So after the morning I would go to the community center. A red brick building across from a horse stable and in the background there is the beautifuln green campo. I really miss it. One day with Gustavo I went to go talk with the director about if I could teach a class there. I wanted to teach English but he said I could go help with s computer class and later in summer vacation I could teach little kids how to use a computer. I kind felt like oh gosh I'm not sure if I want to teach how to use a computer. I don't exactly like computers myself or know a lot but these kids here aren't acostamed to use a computer like a i am. It's so different the technology and it's crazzzy to think about it. I grew up with a computer and always I'm school used one everyday but in the schools here they write on the chalkboard and they don't make as many photocopies because it cost money.   And in my school we used an unlimited supply of paper. But I liked the old style of using a                                                chalkboard when I talk English. But anyways I am so glad I went to the computer class because I  meet a really amazing person. The teacher of the computer class. The first day I could tell that I classroom setting in Paraguay is so much different so much more relaxed. In the high school I can just walk in and hang out with them. A they re usually grouped up together talking or writing the their notebook. But it definitely is not orderly at all. More like hanging or and occasionally working. Also they stay in the same classroom with the same group of kids all through high school and they specialize in a specific field like social sciences or with math and computers. Also they don't learn English very well so the ones who know english well went to asuncion to take classes in the paraguayo Americano centro. I pased it a couple times. Anyways in the computer class the teacher is a lot more one with the students and relaxed. He talks openly they joke around and laugh. They bring food to share. They talk take breaks. In general institutions are a lot more unprofessional and also the police is very unprofessional here. They always tell me not to trust in the police. But always thats a whole another 2 stories I'll get to. So the first day I went in the class the teacher spent the first 30 minutes of class talking to me in the front of and with the class. I usually do not get that much   attention walking into a new class. He asked me a lot of questions where I was from and why I a here. And was very interested also the other people on the class too. One Took me to one of the accomanias of nueva italia in the nature where there is a river and even more campo and one showed me his English book and asked me a ton of questions about the us Groverment. And two of the students were also in my English class because I taught every grade in the schoo
. It was crazzzy I was the only English teacher. Anyways every afternoon we would have conversations about everything. Really everything, I could really tell him anything and he was very interested and wanted to hear about it. He would always remember everything I said and always payed attention very well and is very thoughtful and observant. He is very interested in phycollogy                            and I think that made take part in why we got a long. We would talk about culture, phycology, he would teach me phrases in guarani and I wrote him English, really about everything. He is a lawyer and is very smart and very carring. Once he told me I was thinking and you really can speak Spanish well because you don't have to translate in your head and we can carry on a conversation.. I felt so much better because so many people say I can't speak Spanish who aren't very smart because I make mistakes and sometimes my accent is hard to understand but I can communicate. He told me many times that I shouldn't fall in love because I am young and I need to live my life be free work study. He gives me good advice and really takes care of me a lot like the paraguayans here. They all take care of me and i reallyfelt like the whole town took care of me. I think that's funny what hesaid because it's implying that if I fall in love I will live forever here and have my baby'shere. Actually a lot people asked me if I have a husband and kids which is crazzzy to me because no one would ask methat in my country. Also they all want you to find a partner quedar in Paraguay, stay and have your baby's and always ask if you will and when I say no they say well this person would make a good husband. I think it's really cute that's how they think, they want you to find s partner and stay although a little crazzzy.