Marianna Castiaux In Paraguay

Paraguayans have very attractive kids. The school has small class rooms, as most as twelve kids down to six. There is a morning session 7 to 11 or 1130 and an afternoon sesson 1230 to 430ish. I am very proud of my map! My host sister and students helped with it. Its on the school wall as you walk in. Me at school, with the schools kitchen hut in the back, behind the soccer field. We have a vegetable garden in which they use the lettuce in fried tortillas for the kids. Paraguay celebrated it 200 years of independence. Asuncion the capital had many various events as well as smaller towns. I went into Asuncion.

AAAK.. i think the best teachers dont take themselves seriously.... in peace corps you cant.... soccer just got better with masks!!

Ive been busy! honestly! With my girls group we have learned about lice, parasites, taking care of wells, nutrition and well, i guess the animals of paraguay via a really fun day of mask making. Im a purple eagle ( they made it for me). I love the girls group sometimes, although im dead by the end of the day.

Hi, its been a super long time since ive written and i cant say my last post was even edited or reread so instead of rushing my time to write i thought i would do a photo exhibit of what im doing in site. Starting with this photo of my well that my group of girls Super Chicas painted

When I first came to paraguay i knew i would deal with sexism. I knew i would have to climb higher than this and move on. When I first came to my site and heard from the other volunteer about domestic violence in my site, I knew that this too i would have to put behind me and move on. When later I met the timid females in my community i felt this was a result of the sexism, violence, lack of economic freedom. But... what i never guessed, what i never thought was how i would gain female empowerment from paraguay and the women i saw as timid and insecure would gradually bash my own sexist mind from the states, and teach me what it means to be a women in the campo and gradually i saw how the states sexism has caged my own ideas of myself. This alone is a reason for all women in the states to join peace corps. you will learn how caged your idenity is, gain a new one, and reflect on the past in the states. When i was in seventh grade, i loved shop class. I remember we were making cars out o...

One thing about being in Peace Corps is the ability to travel to nearbye countries and share your experience, info about Paraguay to others abroad. For example, I was asked by a Chiliean about Paraguays beaches.... I feel its important part of my peace corps experience to share my trip to Chile. Traveling is apart of our time here, and sharing our time in paraguay to everyone. Torres del Paine Park, in Southern Chile was the most beautiful place ive been to in my life without any doubt. It didnt feel like i was on earth. I traveled through neverland, wonderland, through flora ive never seen before, glaciers, ice burgs, avalanches, rock formations, glacial caverans. Some vistas I felt i could see the dinosaurs walking around. They seemed to fit with the barren glacial environment. Scrambling over painful granite rocks, stumbling down canyons of rock tore my knees and puncured my feet even through the thick hiking boots. We were sooooooooo lucky with the weather, everyone kept telling us...