Welcome to your guarani introdcution to paraguay...and three of the most important things ever!
y - water - high quality H20!
the water here in paraguay is actually pretty good...so no worries. my stomach problems were most likely not caused by the fact that i drank some bad water. I´ve actually had some people tell me that the water here was the sweetest water in the world. There is even a story that PY exports some of its water to the united states, b-c we don´t have enough. I´m no so sure about that one, but man do i love some good cool water when it is 40 d´s C outside. dang it´s hot.
yvy. - soil - down and dirty!
there is a huge diversity of soils here in paraguay...or so they say. they being peace corps. i have really only experinece one as of yet. and that is sand. in so many ways paraguay is the beach without an ocean. and in the streets, sand in your sheets, sand all up in erewere. But there is supposedly clay too. One of my biggest jobs will be working with folks to rehab their soil! add some organic material up in that piece and keep it from all washin´away!
yvyra - tree - you should got plant one!
paraguay, like many places, has an ongoing problem with deforestation. There are lots of cool native species of trees and quite a few introduced ones that peace corps volunteers work with and know. I got a crash course in agroforestry the other day, and i have to say, it was really cool. I hope to plant some trees soon after i get to site to that my community and i can see them grow through the whole two years! My favorite species so far is called Timbo, and has a really cool seed pod that looks like an elephant ear.
btw. "y" is prounounced like euh...in the back of your throat. it is a fun sound.
peace corps out.
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