Well I´ve not had access to the internet in a bit so I haven´t been able to update this thing. I´m gonna skip the details here and get down to the nitty gritty. I got my site. Im gonna be spending the next two years in the department of Ñeembucu about 2 hours south east of Pilar. All of this is located in the southwest corner of paraguay right across the boarder from Argentina. My intiall host family seems super cool and there are tons of little girls at my house. The littlest one got bit by a fish while I was visting and then dad came out with the machete and choped its head off. They kept telling me we were going to eat it, but never did. My community and many in the area were all given a ton of fancy beekeeping equipment by the NGO who then bounced. SO they have all the equiment they just need a little more technical training. I visited the apiary twice when I was there are some strong hives there. I also when milking everyday and hope to continue this practice when I live there with the goal of becoming half as good as the woman I go with. Also I was promised carpinco (capybara) and jakare (alligator) asados (bbq).
I can´t think of anything else right now.
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hey! sounds like you have a great set up for the next two years. it that place any where near the iguazu falls? everyone down here is raving about that place. i´m only down here for 10 more days, and then it´s back home... strange to think i´m only a few hundred miles away from where you are right now. i´ll be sad to leave, it´s been amazing! hope you had a good thanksgiving (at least a good imaginary one) and we´ll miss you at christmas
ReplyDeletelove,
emma
I have an alligator steak in my freezer but I was mulling over the best way to cook it. Maybe asada it is! Do they do anything else to it?
ReplyDeleteI checked out Neembucu. It looks pretty mountainous on the terrain map.
I don´t know if they do anything else to the alligator, but I doubt it. and no it´s flat as can be. Paraguay in general is very flat, a couple of hilly regions, but no mountains.
ReplyDeleteAnd Emma, we had a delicious thanksgiving dinner at the director of PC Paraguay´s chuchi house in Asuncion. Heterei! And its not near Iguazu (which should properly be Yguasu, which means big water in guarani).