rolling along

Well I´m back in Ypane for my weekly blog update. Not to much of note happened this week. Things are setting in to a little routine of class, food and sleep, with the occational excersizing happening. But on friday night and saturday we went out for a tech excursion. We went to visit a volunteer who is living a little comunnity outside Altos. This is just an hour or so (rupi) from assunsion (paraguaý). It super pretty out there, in fact there are even paraguayan mountans (we might call them hills). When we got there on friday, we started out with a little terere (which if I haven´t explained yet is cold mate, and the national drink of paraguay). After terereing (and yes it is a verb too) for about an hour or so we went out to the kokue (feild) to harvest avena negra (black oats) and plant some macuna and some other green manure which I can´t remember the name of. After all that hard work, we needed more terere. Two hours later we set out to capture a wild hive. This was another hive that had set its self up in an old termite mound. However as opposed to our other (failed) attempt this one was text book. The termite mound was hollow on the inside and the bees had filled it full of comb. We kept at it well into the night, some of us more into it than others, but eventually around eight andrew (the volunteer we were visitng) foudn the queen a captured her. Hooray. Our first sucessful trasiago!
Upéi (then) we marched home with our spoils and had a victory dinner, chicken and rice, with mandio of corse. After a bit of dancing and a bunch of yelling (its kinda like yee-haw but distinctly paraguayan, i´m still working on mine) we retired for the night. The room I got had no fan and was like 90´s. Also the window had been open all night before I got there so the room was full of beetles which crawled all over me all night. I didn´t get much sleep before waking up at 5 am (truth be told i didn´t acctually get out of bed untill about 6). After some mate and cosido (another type of mate, made with charcoal burned sugar and usually drank mixed with alot of milk) we listen to 2 charlas (which are just little talks). Then we drank some terere had some lunch drank some more terere and then looked at some farmers pond. After all that it was finally time to go. ON the way back to costa alegre we stopped off at some american style dinner and sweet shop. I got a mini peacan pie with soft serve ice cream and a brownie. Heterei (muy rico ( very good)). Im late for lunch so i gotta go.