I hosted 4 Peace Corps Crop Extension Trainees (me at this time last year) for a week at my site at the beginning of this month. Here, Kurt checks out what the littlest dudes are coloring this week at Book Club.
Gabi and Sam serenade us with Paraguayan and American tunes. This makes the terere even sweeter.
It was surprisingly chilly for the first part of the week. Here we all squish into my tiny house for language class for the guys and a break from milking the cows for us girls. Lucy grins from her post in the doorway.
One of the big things I too remember about training is missing American food, or more importantly, having control over what kind of food you put into your body. When I offered pancakes one day, the trainees were ALL for it. So I found them the ingredients, they QUADRUPLED the recipes, made a bajillion banana pancakes in my 2 little individual pancake pans, and finished them all off in one day. Now that's GUAPA!
To top off a week of planting green manures, milking cows, learning Guarani, marking contour curves, playing highly-competitive games of "Duck, Duck, Wolf!", and giving talks to the womens' comite, we climbed the mountain behind my house. It's supposed the 3rd highest point in Paraguay, and about a 2 hour climb. What a view!
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