Living in Villa Ygatimi

So I spent 10 days living out in the campo and now I am going to be living there part of the time in Ygatimi and part of the time here in Asuncion. It was amazing to get out of the city world for a while but I found that the campo life is just a little too tranquilo for me. They do nothing out there and we are talking nothing. When it is really hot outside they dont work because it is too hot and when it is raining they dont work because it is raining and all the streets are destroyed. So while I was out there I did a lot reading and nothing in general. One day I was sitting around the office reading my book and Patricio (he is the groundskeepers and was like my father) came inside so I asked him if there was anything I could do to help out. He said very excitedly, yes Ven Ali Ven so I followed him outside where we decided to sit on the porch and drink terrere for the rest of the morning, a pretty nice life but in general a little too mellow for me.

I have taught a couple of my classes which is nice but hard. It is hard because I don't speak Guarani, which means that I am trying to teach these campesinos about business in their second language which they don't really understand. I would give my class and try to ask for participation and they would stare at me with a blank gaze. I realized how hard teaching in general is and on top of that trying to teach a very unfamiliar topic in a second language.

In the end I decided that I was not going to be able to and did not want to live in Ygatimi for my whole time here. It was a great opportunity to see what real Paraguay is all about but as all of you know I am very social person who feeds off the energy of the people around her and that was not happening. When groups of people would get together they would speak to each other in Guarani even if everyone knew Spanish, a little frustrating and limited the types of relationships that I could develop with people. So I decided I would go back and forth a couple of times but that my main base is in Asunción. But if anyone ever gets the chance to live in the rural part of any country I highly recommend it, it is something that cannot be described with words...