So, its my last week here in Paraguay ( Read more... )

So here I am again at Hotel Parana on their marvelous free internet. I haven´t been here for 3 weeks - I felt like I´d abandoned them! Fanny has gone to visit her mother again but this time Juan won´t be staying in the house - so I can´t either.
Had a brilliant weekend - went to Incarnacion for my birthday for 4 days. We had torential rain for 2 ( Read more... )

Have just got back from the most amazing weekend country-hoppingg between Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina. Or dicking about between countries as we called it ( Read more... )

It´s been so cold here since Sunday, I´ve been wearing Daves thick jumper constantly and my hoody during the days. All the Paraguayans are wearing 2 jumpers, coats, hats and scarves. It´s like 12 degrees on a morning but 17 during the day.

Friday morning me and the other GAPpers are going to the Iguazzu Falls! Can´t wait. It´s an 8 hour bus journey ( Read more... )

So from 5pm Friday, till 7am Monday, I didn´t leave the house. Not once. Fun eh ( Read more... )

 OH MY GOD. SOMEONE PLEASE SEND ME SOME CHICKEN IN BLACKBEAN SAUCE FROM LISTER STREET CHINESE. NOW!

I know how sick it would make me, but what the hell.

So...everything is in Spanish on here. I can´t figure out how to change the font or anything, so I apologise if things are a bit weird!

This week is dragging so much, especially after the last went so quickly. And the last thing I want is for time to go slow.

There´s this kid in my class called Camilla, who´s started calling me mama. She constantly ( Read more... )

So all I did today after writing in here was meet the others for lunch, looked round a toy shop ( next week i´m gonna get the kids some building bricks and a giant bag of lego stuff) and came back to internet cafe ( Read more... )

 Hola!

So I realise I´ve been here 2 weeks so probably should´ve started a blog before now, but I´ve been so busy doing nothing.

As most of you have probably heard, I spent the whole of my first week wanting to come home really badly. I´ve never felt anything like it before, it´s so weird being here totally on my own. I was so close to jumping on the ( Read more... )