Thanksgiving

I missed you all on thanksgiving... but I did have a very enjoyable time in Encarnacion with about 100 other volunteers, in the southern part of Paraguay...We made turkey,stuffing, cranberry sauce, and everything EXCEPT greenbean casserole bc you can't find greenbeans here :( but nonetheless it did feel somewhat like a thanksgiving dinner, complete with a murder mystery twist hahaha and we even had a talent show.. there are some taleneted volunteers here in Paraguay!... I didn't do anything i just sat back and enjoyed the show..






While we were down in that part of the country we went to see the Jesuit Ruins, which were pretty cool. They are basically little town ruins with a big church from when the Jesuits came in and tried to convert the indigenous people living in Paraguay.. But after the Spaniards thought the Jesuit church was gaining too much independent power, the towns were abandoned and the indigenous people went back to living in the forests...then the towns were rediscovered when the first Mestizo settlers came and they took all the stones and anything of value to use to build their houses and what not and left the town in ruins...





Here are some pics!

Some volunteers playing cards at Hotel Tirol, Encarnacion... My room was in the building in the background. They had three pools and this pool was reserved specifically for volunteers!

This is the view from the resort

Here are some of the Jesuit Ruins..

We climbed to the top of one of buildings next to the church ruins and got a good view of where the "indigenous" lived in the town (behind me).

Here is a shout out to VT... in front of the Church ruins... Courtney and I both graduated from tech in 2007. WHoA! ...and yes, I am that white despite living in 100 degree heat.. .hahah, I try to stay in the shade.