Month 7: Reconnecting and Making Chipa
Hi everyone!! Welcome back. Apologies for the delay on this month's update. The longer I'm down here, the faster time seems to pass. The month of April had two major highlights: Reconnect and Semana Santa. We'll dive into both, and I'll give some general life updates from my time in the campo. We'll get into what Reconnect is and what went on during that week below, but we made a couple of pit stops on the way to that training. First was another trip to the waterfall in a neighboring site. We had another lovely barbecue, watched a beautiful sunset, and spent a night on a horse ranch! The second pit stop was in Asuncion. Our Country Director (the head of PC Paraguay - shoutout Terry) was kind enough to open his doors and invite all our cohort to his house for a little lunchtime snack. We all gathered in the city the night before. I went through another Paraguayan rite of passage - attending my first futbol match! In this household, we are Club Olimpia fans (it's...