Marianna Castiaux In Paraguay

I think you will all enjoy, find funny and informative this blog by Natalia. It is probably the best blog out there on paraguay. http://www.guidetoparaguay.com/blog.html

A Brownie troop from Southern California is learning about my experience here in Paraguay and about Paraguians. I have been cooresponding with their Leader who is preparing for an event with other troops in which each troop picks a different country to represent. I signed up for World Wise Schools, a program through Peace Corps that places volunteers in contact with teachers, leaders, as a pen pal cultural exchange program. I love this idea! My response to the wonderful package I got, filled of pictures and letters from the girls is bellow. I just recieved your wonderful package. how happy was i when i opened it to see the many drawings and letters for me!!......................... as for your letter, i would be so pleased if your girls picked paraguay for your project. as you may know one of the goals of peace corps is cultural exchange. this would be wonderful if a group of girls and their families in california knew about this wonderful country and how far it has come from the oppr...

It has been a while since my last post. I can not express all that has happened since the 21st of Nov. One of the most memorable was walking eleven hours all night to Caacupe for a Catholic Pilgramage, on Dec 8th with all my agroforesters and my host cousin, host brother of Lauren and host sister of Leah. Throughout the night we munched on Tippys, O shaped cookies that taste like an animal cracker, ate chipa and drank guarana soda ( has lots of caffienee). We started off at 6pm and arrived around 6 but took about an hour in breaks. we were extremely exhausted as it is the furthest ive walked. all of us exhausted at sunrise in caacupe, crashed with all of the other pilgrams on the park floor. Dirty waking up at 730, Julia, Brain, Leah and I found a switzerland coffee shop and had amazing german rye bread with german ham and cheese and great capuchinos with sides of chocolate. Overjoyed with our food we overly thanked our host for the best food we have had in paraguay. But this joy w...