Summer Vacation

School is out... finally! And the end of the year brings with it lots of celebrations and graduations. This week I have been to several pools with the kids from the community centers and a few different lunches with teachers. It has been fun, but time to get to work! I have been working very hard to design some summer programs so that the kids don´t just stay home all day watching tv in the heat. The one that I am hoping has the most sucess is Book Club. The kids will come once a week for 2 hours to read, play and have fun! I recruited some of the teenagers to help me so that we can read in small groups. I am really hoping to have sucess. The kids seem really excited, its just the teenagers I have to keep motivated! I have also finally given in to the requests for English Classes. I will be teaching 4 classes a day 3 days a week... that will be exhausting, but I put it off for soooo long! So they will finally get what they´ve been asking for...

I hope that everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I was able to spend the weekend in a beautiful Hotel near Encarnacion, a city that borders Argentina. There were several beautiful pools and great scenery. We went to visit the Jesuit ruins which were pretty cool and for those who eat meat, there was a great big turkey dinner prepared by some of the other volunteers. Although nothing beats dinner in Grandma´s basement with the fam, Thanksgiving in Paraguay came in a close second!

With Thanksgiving down and school over it is now time to start planning for Aunt Fran´s visit! Can´t wait til I get to show someone around the wonder that is Paraguay! It´ll definitely be interesting!