Monday, March 19, 2007

Tranquilopa

Once again todo tranquilo in Yegros!! So things are considerably slow right now…

My computer teaching is bearable right now, luckily!! I am not teaching too many hours… My English class is kind of on a halt right now because my students won’t show up—scandalous and of course they have my phone number yet they don’t feel like giving me a heads up that they won’t show up, so I wait around, wasting my time, for them…frustrating, but nothing I can do about it…So I am not sure if I have mentioned this or not, but the owner of my house is pressuring me to teach an English class open to all students. Even though it might sound like a great idea, it will give me such a headache, since no Paraguayan realizes that you cannot learn English in a couple of months---that it actually takes years and practice and study…that you just don’t magically learn English… The education system is so screwed up here in Paraguay that the students go to school and don’t really learn anything, most of their time is recess and copying stuff from the board because of lack of books—of course partly to blame is the teachers who don’t really care about teaching and the students who don’t really care to learn anything…I guess I just feel pressure to actually teach so that my students will actually learn something--in part so that the students will know what an actual class should be…but we’ll see how this will all play out…

So my women’s group started to meet up, yet I have not been able to make it to a meeting because when I can go, they cancel their meetings….haha…bad luck on my part I guess you can say… I will keep my fingers crossed for this Monday…

So of course that huge amount of money that I talked about before (that my cooperative would receive to create a new locale), has not gone through. Scandalous!! Empty promises, I say…Part of me thinks, well it is Paraguay (imperfect with soooo much corruption)….what can you expect, right?

The radio show continues to go well. Every Tuesday I meet up with my fellow volunteers in the area to cook incredibly yummy food and then we head over to the radio and take care of business…hehe!!

Well just wanted to tell you about my exciting trip that I will be taking…with my two of my sisters--we will hang out in beautiful Argentina (Buenos Aires and still don’t know where else) for about 12 or 13 days and then head over to Peru to do Machu Pichu with my 2 other siblings. I’m soooo excited about it because I know we will have a blast and it will be so much fun and I get to spend my birthday with my fam!! : ) very awesome!!!

Need to run off, but Hhope everything goes well y mucho
hugs!!