Arrival and first impressions

So I finally made it! The flight was LOOOOONG! But aside from getting groped by the TSA, it was pretty good. TACA gives you free food and liquor on their flights, so thats always nice :) I tried Flor de Caña for the first time. It's good :) It's a kind of fermented sugarcane liquor that tastes like rum. Plus I sat next to a REALLY nice Brazilian guy on the way from Peru to Uruguay.

Friendly Brazilian Guy :)

He didnt speak much english, but we both laughed alot :)

         
                             

Sandwich, cookies, and fruit slice

                                     

                                                     mini salad, some type of curried chicken,bread, and sesame crackers

                                        

Pasta with cheese,cheddar cheese, dried fruit, and cookies

                                          Some of the views from the plane were REALLY nice!

                            

                                  (sign in peru)
                                   Correct me if i am wrong, but isnt there a reason it's called toilet paper?

Sunset over Paraguay

Sunset over Peru

So I FINALLY arrive at Silvia Petirossi International Airport in Paraguay, and of course  NO ONE in the ENTIRE airport speaks english, not even the customs people. So they were just smiling at me and speaking spanish, and I managed to get through customs without a problem, and they didn't even search my bags!(there was some kind of presidential celebration going on, and security was focused on that instead)

And of course, my phone doesn't work, so i go to use  the phone there to call her, and it costs 800 guaranis(about 80 cents) and i don't have any guaranis, so i have to convert some.  And this guy came up with a cart after  i got there to put my baggage in it, and then proceeded to follow me around for about 20 minutes while i did what i needed to. He was really nice, so i tipped him 5$, which for the poor people is like a whole days wage. Needless to say, he was really happy after that :)

So she arrives, we load up the car, and we are all really hungry so we go to eat something. Thus begins my introduction to Paraguayan fast food. 

This is Chipa. Its like a bread thing filled with different stuff . I had one filled with sausage and onions, one with ham and cheese, and another with eggs and 4 cheeses

Chipa is AMAZING! and all the meat here is completely natural, grass fed organic meat, which is awesome!

I also had some fresh pineapple juice, and a strawberry/banana yogurt/ice cream thing. anyway, it was awesome, and i ate SO much, lol.

It was at a shopping centre, and aside from it being all in spanish, it could easily be somewhere in america. And the first thing i saw when i got here was a burger king :)

So we got home after a while, and i worked on getting settled in.

This is a Tatakua  Its a brick oven used for making all kinds of stuff. It looks like an igloo :)

A view of the backyard and all the fruit trees. They have mangos,oranges, lemons, guavas, avacados, and something else i cant remeber.

Me drinking Terere :) Find more about Terere here

This soup tastes alot like the soup mom makes. There is also some veggies with bacon, and Sopa Paraguaya, which is like a cheese cornbread. And i was coughing earlier, so the tea is something called amba'y (roughly pronounced AMBAH-OOH. Its a guarani word, and very hard to write out a phonetic translation)

The kitchen.

Dining room

Front Room

Bathroom. Im still trying to get used to not having a shower , and just standing on the floor to take a shower. You cant see it in the pic, but the shower head is up above, and the water is heated as it comes through the shower head by something called a Calefone. Neat idea if you act me, cuz you can never run out of hot water :) You just flip the switch to turn on the Calefone, and Voila! hot water! Its nice :)

My room, including bed. There is a window on each side of the room, and wind blows through, so it is VERY  fresh. 

My wardrobe. Hope its big enough for all my clothes :)

My room is actually partly open. Like you walk out of my room, and theres the bathroom, and then another door witch is open on the top and bottom, and it opens up out to the backyard. And then if you keep going, you get to the kitchen.

So what are my first impressions? well even though almost no-one speaks my language, Paraguayan people are among the friendliest in the entire world, and I think i will be very happy here! The food is good, the water is cleaner then back home, and i drink it right from the tap. Some places are a little run down, but mostly in the poorer areas. In alot of places, you see people driving by in expensive cars, even mercedes. Alot of places are very modern and beautiful. The sun is HOT, and this isnt even summer yet, so that will take some getting used to... Anyway, I'm gonna wrap this up now. I miss all of you! More to come soon...