but hey, i'm learning. people here speak jopara. its like spanglish, but instead of a mixture of english and español, its the combination of español y guarani (not the prettiest language). they use a lot of little squigglies above their letters, that means you are supposed to make nasal sounds. i cant help but sound like i'm sick when i "speak" guarani. here are some of the words i know: vacapipopo: ball po: 5 or hand kuña: woman porã: beautiful (that would be a nasally a) póra: monster pirapire: money pira: fish mba'éichapa reime: how are you? yep. i'm basically fluent. if you memorize that, you're practically paraguayan. and here are some pictures for picture time: i think Paraguay has treated me with the best ice cream i have ever ever ever had. sometimes i forget i am working in a developing country. this was a really nice ice cream parlor, with gormet ice creams. i'm eating almond ice cream topped with a french chocolate ice cream. i'm sitting...
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