Showing posts with label fogón. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fogón. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Healthy Living

Just uploading some photos today depicting our life in Paraguay. We recently returned from Long Field Practice, a four day trip to another volunteer´s site in which Matthew went to the nearby campo, built another fogón (brick & mud oven), gave a talk to adults regarding nutrition, and a talk to kids regarding dental health. Tegan went to Encarnacion (a big city) and taught a lot of classes on a lot of different topics, including democracy, literacy, values, which she will go into more detail in another post. For now, enjoy the photos of Matthew´s trip! (and, as always, start at the bottom if you want it to make sense)

If Peace Corps doesn´t work out, there´s always Wrangler.

We also spoke about dental health at a nearby school.

The spider was found under my shoe one morning. The coin next to it is a little bigger than a quarter.






































We gave a talk on nutrition at the local church.













My host sister, Gavi, followed me like a shadow.






























This is what your kitchen looks like when you cook over an open flame for decades. Part of the reason you build a fogón is to keep people´s lungs from looking like this.


























Views of and from the house.














View from my window at my temporary host family´s house. Piglets!

Saturday, March 19, 2011

La Vida

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so here are fifteen thousand words regarding our life in Paraguay. You should start at the bottom for chronology's sake.

Lots of photos depicting the challenges and rewards of building a fogón. We made chipa (a savory corn bread) with the community to celebrate.




































Tegan has an ever-rotating group of kids who come over on weekends and make friendship braclets and other stuff (like cartwheels).



















Dinner at our house (Matthew made chili!) with our host family and our friends Jeff & Carly
Digging a trash pit.








Planting trees.



















Facepainting at our community party (the tembo'i incident)