The Monday of this week
I shipped out bright and early to my PCV visit in Caazapa. This was truly my
first time traveling alone in country and it was not so bad at all. When I
arrive to Caazapa Zoe (my PCV visit) and Trevor (another PCV from G40 apart of
the Agriculture Sector) were waiting for me at the stop. It had rained pretty
hard in Trevor’s site and the buses had stopped running just after he was done
running his errands in Caazapa (extremely common here), thus while walking
around Zoe over heard Trevor on the phone struggling in Guarani while trying to
explain to his host brother that he was going to have to stay in town until the
buses started running again. Thus, Zoe approached him and asked him if he was a
PCV and the rest is history, so that night he stayed with us at Zoe’s place.
This experience gave me a glimpse into how connected we all are as PCV’s and
how we are always willing to help one another out because rain is another Paraguay
problem. (but ill blog more about the rain later) All in all it was 2 for the
price of one the first day of my PCV visit because I had the experience of Zoe,
who is a G35er, which means she is about to be done with her service AKA “COS”.
Then I had Trevor who is a G40er that has been in Paraguay for a total of 5 or
so months. Trevor left early the next morning thus Zoe and I walked around her
community while she introduced me to the various families she stayed with over
the first 3 months on site. I attended my first “reso final” and last prayer
for a member of her community. It was a
great time seeing what the life of a volunteer is like, the “tranquillo” life.
I am looking forward to it soon!
Other things I did
while on my visit:
Helped
paint a world map at a school.
Took
a crazy taxi ride into site.
Played
volleyball with the local kids.
Went
to my first VAC meeting.
Stayed
the night in Caazapa at yet another wonderful PCV in the community economic
development.
Hung
out and had lunch in Villarica with some other PCT’s and PCV’s who are from
around that area.
Hi, Ashley! I finally caught up with all your entries--fascinating! Your love for the people really comes across beautifully. So does your dislike of frogs. Grin and bear it, right? All is fine here. Call to Action Day went very well thanks to Diana and Becky. On to Earth Week.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your beautiful place on earth! Jim