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Pork slaughter and visit Asunción

Sodele, is by now the first week moved into the country. Crazy how fast rumgeht time. I'm sitting on the terrace and drink native Mate, while I listen to the croaking of bull frogs and the chirping of crickets. =) You can tell that spring is coming slowly, because the nights are getting warmer. Unfortunately, I still had to wear long clothes now that I would otherwise be eaten by mosquitoes.

This week is again something happened.
Now I can drive the school bus every morning and collect the children. That's always a great Tohuwabuhu as sitting on each seat 2-3 children who like to loudly to Reggeatonmusik sing on the radio. Then they always call "Más fuerte, Flo! Más fuerte "

I also could help the slaughter pigs;! After we put the 85kg animal on the farm was stunned with a current-clamp. While I considered this, which was chancho killed with a knife wound to the heart. The 5 liters of blood shooting out which then were collected with a bucket, in order to make blood sausage. Then the pig was entborstet, washed, cleaned and cut.

celebrated its tenth birthday yesterday Nico. There were 20 children from the area, for the fun games we prepared. It was a very nice, but also exhausting day. Therefore indulged Rivka, Manuela (a volunteer who is still here for 3 weeks) and I are a typical evening with Cachaca Caipirinha (for 1.90 € a liter), and fresh lemons from the garden.

Today we took the bus to Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay, which is about 40km away. I learned how it works here by bus, there are no stops, you simply have to put the road on the bus, and then stretch out his hand when he comes. How long you wait, you never know. Sometimes it takes 5 minutes, but sometimes an hour or more. Punctuality is a foreign word. If the bus has stopped, one must hope that one can somehow squeeze inside. Since the bus is often quite full, usually 3-4 people are still hanging out on the floor board. The door is always open in principle. If you want to get off, you must give the driver a signal, which then continues normally. Rather chaotic everything ... but funny =)

Joa, in Asunción itself has actually seen very little. The houses are all pretty filthy, and all are small stalls, a BBQ Chipa, counterfeit clothing and jewelry is sold. Really nice but is a small park on the Rio Paraguay. Since we have a little while sunning on the lawn.
have also Rivka and I still for a course logged in, we will visit every Saturday for 3 hours.

On the way back we are still strolled through a market in San Lorenco. Extreme right, and these were tin shacks, one beside the other, so everything was covered. There was everything, and of course damn cheap. And the whole thing so huge that I only run once. I felt like in the jungle: the whole time you angela bert from dealers and even pulled on his arm, "Muchacho, más barato para vos!" I was relieved when I finally found the way out.
Most lewd, however, the bike shops that exist here in abundance. Brand new 150cc machine gets is here for 3 million (about 450 €). And the pieces look really cool, such as it was in 1950 in Germany modern. ^ ^ This cost of fuel here, about 50 cents per liter ... Everything sounds pretty tempting ...

Now I'm going to try a bit of Tom Sawyer (in English of course) and if the material is empty go to bed.

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Finally, in the new home =)

The (but only) 17 hour bus ride went, thanks to good food with food and champagne around faster than expected. The seats were damn comfortable and looks more like a bed. After arriving in Asunción, there was first a small air-shock, here it is again a few degrees warmer and more humid than above all in Buenos Aires.

Well, as we stood in the huge bus terminal and found no .. our future family I've bought a first Terere (the Paraguayan Mate, with ice water and indefinable herbs ...) and I looked at the thousands of dealers. It was also clear to me why Paraguay is the second poorest country in South America. After an hour we were, fortunately, but picked up yet.

The family is very nice and open, so I'm really totally lucky! Also my new home is really cool, the terrain is 5 hectares in size, where cows, pigs, hundreds of live chickens and geese, turtles, parrots, horses, dogs, cats and much more. After all we were shown, I went with Nicolás (the 8 year old son) swim in the lake nearby. The water was 30 m deep, despite a comfortable temperature.

little further away will still be a very large lake, where I will swim, however, as the waste water is disposed of from the surrounding villages there, and there is also anacondas and crocodiles ..

have then I played with Nico and a child from one of the huts in the area football and milked the cows.

Today I went with Lisa (the mother), 28 children from the Ipacaraí environment after school. And with a van that is designed for 15 people. This school transportation in the future will be my daily task. Most children live with their parents (usually many) siblings in huts, which often consist only of clay, stone, wood and canvas, along with chickens and sometimes a cow. Flowing water has the least. This is taken from the lake, of which I have previously told. There, the laundry is washed.

the lake is a former quarry Because, you see there with their children, men often cut off and carry away stones with old wheelbarrows. Obviously they are trying dazuzuverdienen so a few cents. The official minimum wage here in the country by the way is about 200 € per month, but only get the least actually. Many work for 2-3 € per day.

The schools are in a state of stark, and the children sit at plastic tables in brick shells, where the money has gone out for windows. At least it was enough for a door last month. This has probably also affect the quality of teaching.

while ago I gave a couple of 10-12-year tutor children (another future task), and I noticed that some can not even read and write. That was the teachers have been so far, probably does not matter ...

The Language I am doing my yet still a bit difficult, since here again a very different dialect than in Buenos Aires is spoken, but at least the children can understand me a little.

And do not forget: the food here is really sex! From bread, sausage, meat, eggs and vegetables here all by myself. And there are fresh lemonade from one of the many citrus trees and fresh passion fruit juice. Are also available in hundreds of coconut palms and guava trees, whose fruits also taste delicious clean. Everywhere the smell of citrus blossoms where colorful hummingbirds gather nectar =)

Now I do it myself to increase the rabbit hutch that we've got young of about 15 young bunny. To achieve this, I have a wall of brick and cement.

summarize it here so I feel really good and I feel completely comfortable in my new home! =)

Pictures coming soon!