Well its been about 2 weeks or so since my last post. Last weekend I went to visit a volunteer who lived down south in a little community called Isla Ro´y, which means cold island. And it was cold at night. We didn´t really do to much, but I did find a legless lizard which lives underground and looks like a huge earthworm. Unforutually I found it while hoeing, and I broke its back, accidently, while hoeing. I had some bus trouble getting out there (and getting back). The bus we were going to take to Pilar (the closest large city) so me, justin (my host volunteer) and another trainee who was going to stay in Pilar had to stay the night in Ascuncion. We stayed in this hotel called the alps in a special PC room, called the attic which is just a bunch of beds in an attic room. It came with a bathroom and free breakfast (with cake and pie) all for only 500 mil Gs.

Some other things I´ve been up to. We tried to do a wild hive capture last week. We found one that was located underneath a termite mound. We showed up with an axe, a shovel, a top bar hive (a bataea) and lot of determination. Unfortuanlly it was all for not. Eveytime we thought we had found where they were, they moved into some other chamber. We only found about 8 pieces of comb, and it was all empty, but there were lots of bee. They must have had some huge chamber like 10 feet underground, but we never found it. We´ve found a couple of other wild hives to capture, so we should be doing that soon. Also there are these stingless bee´s which live here and we´re gonna go a wild hive capture with them too.

I think thouse are the main highlights for right now... oh, I won´t be able to upload any new pics untill next week. And here a map i´m working on.. ( ok we´re not suposed to show where people are living publicly (for safty reasons), so if you wanna see my map, email me)



I hope that worked