El Bicentenario

VIVA PARAGUAY

this last week was full of festivities. paraguay celebrated it's 200 years from independence from spain.

this is how we celebrated:

laura and i wanted to do a temple visit in the morning. turns out the bus routes were different because all the parading going around. so we walked. when we got out, it was pouring rain and walked back to our house. took about an hour. but i loved every minute of it. we trailed down the parading roads and saw all the people lining up for the event.



soaked in the rain. wind breakers don't keep water out very well.

all the army men were practicing their army drum rolls

once we got back, Isaz who is from Spain made Spanish tortilla. Spanish tortilla is more like a super omelette. we decided it was fitting for the occasion, knowing that Paraguay won its independence from España.

then we went to the "international" parade. we saw representatives for countries like Uruguay, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Brazil and China.

i did however check something off my life bucket list and that was to attend a CARNAVAL. saw some scandalous happy people.


i couldn't miss this opportunity.




this is one of the more modest girls.
one reason why i loved caranaval was because most of these girls had BODIES and they moved. they were not thin as a twig (although this girl is pretty skinny) and they knew they were beautiful.


so celebrations were on saturday and sunday. paraguay just decided a few weeks ago to make monday a festivity day too to recover from the weekend. i didn't complain. i slept in, made some liquado de platano and then headed down to the centro. there was a traveling Brazilian artisan market. i bought a giant feathery earring from these people. the earring looks like it could be divided into three earrings. a man also gave me a capricorn bracelet for good luck. he told me the bracelet will bring me good luck in love, but reminded me that i cannot confuse love with sex. i'm glad he reminded me. i would have forgotten.


and back in the intern house, i was craving flan, so i made some. pretty good considering i was using a gas stove with one temperature. and there is the crazy earring.

con amor y cariño.

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  1. BruceMay 17, 2011 at 11:26 PM

    Great fun to read! Carnival sounds crazy -- and I like the "hey, let's have another holiday" attitude. I'm going to suggest that at work! Yes, it can RAIN. I remember wearing plastic bags sometimes. It looks like you are getting to see and do some things. Are you going to Foz before you leave?

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