Welcome to Luque! This sign was startling when I first saw it. This is your new home. Over the past three weeks that i have been here I have learned to ride the bus (which is crazy) and deal with the drivers who text, count change, change the radio stations, talk with friends, and drink terere - while driving the bus. It can be a little crazy but super fun. I have gotten so lost, but as long as you don´t freak out everything is fine. You learn to laugh at your mistakes and learn new things. Some of the things that you never thought would be different are. Things like milk in a bag, waking up to a rooster, a cart horse walking down the street every morning, and other things like that. It is always an adventure to try new things. Terere, lomito, carne, carne, carne that is what my diet has been so far. And lots of bread. Terere is like iced tea but made whith natural ingredients that are litereally pulled out of the ground and shoved in a cup with a cup of water and thats it! Lomito - i can´t even explain how delicious lomito is. It is sorta like a borritto with meat and vegitables and then grilled so it is even more delicous. And the meat is just meat. There are no lady like bites or small pieces everything is in bold. It is MEAT. They are solid chunks of meat severd with a side plate of rice, a chunk of french bread and a glass of juice. That is what i have for almost every meal. It is all so good and you want to eat it all - but at the same time you feel the heavyness of the meat and I have taken to going to the gym. There is nothing better than the feeling when you have just left the gym and you have a good piece of fruit.
Besides that - life here is going great. I am settling into my new family, finishing up my spanish classes and getting ready to start school next week. I can´t wait! Hope you all are doing well. Miss you so much!
Peace & Love,
Vivian
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Getting Settled
It is official. No turning back. No parents to tell you to sit up straight at the table or to make your bed. You are alone in a different country. A different continent. Paraguay. This is what I realized when I woke up this morning.
Being here in Paraguay is an experience, an adventure. I have only been here for 8 days, but already I have cried more than I ever have before, wanted to go home; begged to go home and almost givin up. I have been more depressed than most people at my age. But then I realized, I was not alone. Once I got out of my shell, came out of my room, I realized that there where 23 other students in Paraguay feeling the excact same way! I got to talking to some of them and we soon found that we were alll a little depressed and we all wanted to just give up and go home, but we didn´t. A part of us wanted, needed to make it through to the finish line.
I will describe it like a roller coaster. Litterally - there is the waiting part. The excitment is building up. You see the other cars filling up and the other people coming and going and finally it is your turn. You are so excited! You get all buckled up and ready and then off you go! There are the exciting parts and the scary parts and the parts when you just want to get off, but then the car comes to a halt and you are so glad that you did it! You even want to do it again and again. I just need to get to that point.
Unfortunatly, there was a glitch in my roller coaster and we are at a stopping point for a little bit. My first family, my assigned family, didn´t work out. So I am in a temporary family. I am in the same city of Luque and in the basic same area, but a different house :)
I will try to keep my blog updated, but it is hard to find internet around and is probably better if I post only once a month or so, just so that I become more enveloped in my new life here.
Love and Miss you all so much!
Peace
Vivian
Being here in Paraguay is an experience, an adventure. I have only been here for 8 days, but already I have cried more than I ever have before, wanted to go home; begged to go home and almost givin up. I have been more depressed than most people at my age. But then I realized, I was not alone. Once I got out of my shell, came out of my room, I realized that there where 23 other students in Paraguay feeling the excact same way! I got to talking to some of them and we soon found that we were alll a little depressed and we all wanted to just give up and go home, but we didn´t. A part of us wanted, needed to make it through to the finish line.
I will describe it like a roller coaster. Litterally - there is the waiting part. The excitment is building up. You see the other cars filling up and the other people coming and going and finally it is your turn. You are so excited! You get all buckled up and ready and then off you go! There are the exciting parts and the scary parts and the parts when you just want to get off, but then the car comes to a halt and you are so glad that you did it! You even want to do it again and again. I just need to get to that point.
Unfortunatly, there was a glitch in my roller coaster and we are at a stopping point for a little bit. My first family, my assigned family, didn´t work out. So I am in a temporary family. I am in the same city of Luque and in the basic same area, but a different house :)
I will try to keep my blog updated, but it is hard to find internet around and is probably better if I post only once a month or so, just so that I become more enveloped in my new life here.
Love and Miss you all so much!
Peace
Vivian
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