Primavera en Paraguay =) Sodele, it is time again to speak up. There are also some reports of back from the last few weeks.
First to take this opportunity to thank you for your congratulations for my birthday! Yeah, now it's already on the 30 to ...
this special day ;-) I also celebrated at noon, there was coffee and cake with family and children and some evenings I had rented a table at a nightclub in Asuncion. For this I had invited all former acquaintances, after all, so it came to 22 guests. There was dancing until the wee hours at the local Regueton music and we had a lot of fun. A really good day then.
Last weekend, Rivka and I were invited to a 15 anos birthday of a friend of Louisa. This is celebrated huge: you had to appear in a very chic clothes, it was a big buffet, Live band, a waiter, a clown, about 500 people, professional performances, and much more. From her work it could be compared to a wedding in Germany, which was probably also the fact that this family was very wealthy. Other families into debt because of this celebration is often high.
Since two weeks Rivka and I risen 10 quail chicks, which we want to get up a little breeding. =) In 6 weeks there then quail eggs every morning for breakfast. Unfortunately we have had a recent strong storms in which some trees and palm trees were uprooted and power poles Reports says, so we needed a day without electricity and water. As the chicks still under a heat lamp must be kept warm, cold, that night, unfortunately, 5 of the small ones. = (
blackouts are here by the way nothing special as I have now noticed. In the last two weeks we had two more.
runs with the children also all very well, only that I have now noticed that on general knowledge rather crass hitch. On a world map could give me none of the 15 children show, where is Paraguay. Some were somewhere in China, others to Europe, others to the Antarctic. When I had shown them on the world map where Paraguay, where Germany is, I asked them how great they estimate the distance. Some typed with confidence at 2km other 500km. When I told them that there were almost 11 000km, which corresponds to about 200 days' march, they stared.
As we took was the emergence of the earth, I also a bit surprised. Some schools will actually teach according to the Bible, so some children have never heard of evolution. They are firmly convinced that the Earth and everything that lives created by God and it is no such thing as evolution was.
It is very hard to find as a mediocrity, I will not say that what they learn in school is wrong.
Slowly I get a little taste of summer here in Paraguay. After the Last week was quite cold (18-25Grad) yesterday it had just under 40 degrees with very high humidity. This also took a red-striped, from about 1.20 m long snake that was sunning himself yesterday on the road. As I learned later it was probably a poisonous snake whose bite after you only live a few more minutes. Last year here, even a horse killed by a poisonous snake. There is no antidote was previously unknown. In other snakes there is an antidote, but which is available only in Asuncion. But what is not very useful, because you need to get there at least an hour.
Well, let's hope that I have to make me never thought about it ...
Images the last few weeks will follow soon, once I found my camera cord ...