Meat and Mandarines

CURRASQUERIA TIME!

All you can eat brazilian BBQ. We all got fat, but we were happy. caleb won the competition: eat so much food at the chirrasqueria so you can get sick tomorrow. i'm sure he ate an entire cow, then a plate with things to dip the cow in, and then probably late 2 entire pineapples and needed some desserts. we just watched him chow it down in disgusted.

i payed $18 for the entire meal. that's including the $2 water i bought to help my food go down.

walking home was extremely painful. my legs had a hard time moving.


and this is us (caleb couldn't wait for the picture, he had to keep eating)

the next day we helped complete some surveys. we went some of the women's homes. this is my FAVORITE thing to do. i love traveling to their casitas in their pueblitos and see what they see everyday.



walking to their house through the green fields full of venomous snakes



arriving at her home. it is surrounded by orchards and big trees.



her husband gave me a tour of all the trees. he wanted to share his fruit with me. he gave me some pomelos and the best mandarines in my life.


and then i sat underneath the shadows of a giant mango tree and ate mandarines. (but these are limones y pomelos)


and for lunch they made us paraguayan tortilla which taste like german pancakes.


and we dined surrounded by paraguay.


after eating, some music was playing. i wanted to learn how to dance to it.

after that we continued surveying women, preparing them for a new Fundacion Paraguaya project, they are making some committees into pilot groups and going to work on a new curriculum with them to improve their financial situation.

during one of the surveys, i was in one house and i hear my name being screamed down the road. apparently during one of the other surveys Caleb had fainted and scared everyone.

the churrasqueria got the best of him now. he is fine, just real tired.



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