must be a de la Cruz thing because I get it all the time (and I'm betting our lovely Abuelita and mothers had that trouble too). Beautiful, youthful, no complaints.
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...
I realized I never ended this blog officially. I kinda .... just left it in the midst of interwebs. BUT... I have returned to the US of A and now working at my university's bookstore, doing some graphic design things and also working in a little advertising agency called the AD LAB. Summer is now coming to an end... that means winter is going to end in Paraguay soon (although it never seemed to reach "winter").
CAMPING in Summerland
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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 howeve...
must be a de la Cruz thing because I get it all the time (and I'm betting our lovely Abuelita and mothers had that trouble too). Beautiful, youthful, no complaints.
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