Last week, I visited a volunteer named Nancy. She lives in a in a barrio named Villa Madrid near a town called Limpio. On my way there I got a little lost because the bus driver just stopped the bus and told everyone to get out. I didn’t know where I was, or what to do so I walked back 2km to Limpio. There people sent me in circles until I finally figured out the I had to get on another bus to go to Villa Madrid. I eventually found Nancy’s house.
The barrio there is divided into three phases in accordance with which water tank they use. Nancy lives in the first phase across from a community center that is run by the municipality behind the community center there is a bunch of asentamientos (hut like houses made out of traps and cardboard). One of the biggest problems in the first phase is water. It comes on 3 times per day, so Nancy and I took bucket bathes everyday! There is also a school and a church in the first phase, at least I think that’s where they are. In the third phase there is a comedor (cafeteria where the poorest children in the barrio can eat for free).
After I arrived, Nancy and I made rompe cabezas (puzzles) with some of the kids in her barrio. Then we visited a few families that she needed to talk with. The next day we went to the comedor for lunch visited and talked with a few more families. Then we went out for dinner and drinks with Luke (another PCV) and Zach (another trainee). I had shwerma. The next day, it was raining. In Paraguay, everything stops when it rains. But, Nancy and I ventured out anyway. We went to the school and I got a chance to talk to some of the teachers and the principal. Even though was the first day of classes, less than half the students attended because of the rain. On thursday, we went into Limpio and visited the municipalidad and a library built by some Peace Corps Volunteers. The we did a radio show. All we really had time to do was introduce ourselves, but I talked about how I went to school near Chicago and live in CO.
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