UPD (Ultimo primer dia)

Ugh. School started today. But it kind of didn't.
Last night we had a party celebrating Ultimo primer dia, which is the last first day. Because I'm in the senior class here now. We went to my classmate Guillermo's house at around 10 Sunday night and danced and partied unitl 6 a.m. WITHOUT SLEEP, when a bus came to bring us to the school. We were crazy!! My classmates were screaming, singing, lighting off fireworks. At 6 am! On the way to the school! When we got there we had a ton of silly string and bubble spray that we were fighting with, and my EVERYTHING got covered! They blew up a bouncy slide thing, I can't think of the word in English. I didn't go on that because they were sliding down in oil and I had a white tank top on. At around 7:30 am the teachers kicked us out. So we took four vehicles (around 40 of us) and drove all around Oviedo blasting music. There's no way to explain how much FUN Paraguayans have with EVERYTHING. After we drove around we went to a classmate's house and my friends and I jumped into her pool with our clothes on.
 I'll try to post a few pictures, but they seriously don't do justice to the party we had!

La bandera

trampoliiine

amigos

the bus ride to school

los vagos

other side of the bandera. see my name?

partying around Oviedo!

But tomorrow I actually have to go to school school. Not party. :'(

It has been an absurdly long amount of time since my last post.. I guess I just haven't had the ambition to write anything on here. Also school is out, so there's not a lot going on.
I'M STILL ALIVE EVERYONE. DON'T PANIC.
Wow, I don't even have photos to post. This is sadness.
In December I went to a few colaciones. The colacion in Paraguay could be compared to an American prom. The main difference is that the graduates receive invitations to give to their families and anybody they want. Also, there is food, soda, and alcohol provided for guests. They usually begin at around 11 or 12 (supposed to start at 9, but that's Paraguayan time). To begin, all of the graduates do a 'grand march' of sorts. It's so beautiful, the decorations and the outfits. It is typical for the girls graduating to wear white dresses. After that, each graduate is introduced one by one with their parents which is really sweet. Finally, the music and the 'party' aspect starts. In my first colacion I didn't get home until 6:30 a.m., which is very normal!! In all, I went to four with my friends (exchangers and non exchangers). I wish the colaciones lasted during the whole year, they're a blast!
I wish I had pictures :'(

Maru's Birthday Party

Another blog post of mainly pictures!! Last night was the birthday party of my classmate. Since it is so close to Halloween she decided to make it a costume party!

dancing

chilling (its kinda dark so I cant tell you whose all in it)

Liz

Carol y Fabi

Rodri

Carol y Rodri

Guillermo

Fabi and Guillermo

Sexy Carol

Pingui, Fabi, Enrique, Carol, Ephraim, Alexa

Pingui, me, Wilson, Fabi, Carol, Ephraim, Alexa

Me, Wilson, Pingui, Fabi, Carol, Ephraim, Alexa

Friedrich, Hunter, Carol, Fabi, Alexa, Enrique

Diva, Carol, Fabi, Enrique

Hunter, Friedrich, Fabi

They're just laying in the road, no big deal.

Me, Rodri, Fabi

A Few Pictures from School

The title should speak for itself. Lots of times in school, we aren't really doing anything school-like. So I take pictures.
Note: these pictures have no order. Literally, NONE.

Alexa

Diva (NOT his glasses)

Fabi and Rodrigo (Diva stole his glasses)

Alexa

This is English class.

DEFACING PROPERTY

Just kidding it was dry erase ;D

Some of my classmates

Alexa and I

Sexy Rodrigo

Sexy Rodrigo again- I can't tell if this is a Hitler stache or blowing a kiss

Jessica

Me: I FINALLY WORE THE SKIRT TO SCHOOL.

Side note: of course the first day I wore it to school it poured, and it was super windy.

Celeste

Gabi

Alexa and I

Our school 'courtyard'? I don't know the word for it.

Celeste again

Gabi

A doodle I drew, and yes it is supposed to be backwards

Cataratas de Iguazu

Basically I just wanna post a ton of pictures. On the 18-20, I was in Argentina for a district Rotary conference. All of the exchange students (over 60!) from my district were there. Yesterday (the 19th), we visited one of the seven wonders of the world, the cataratas de iguazu. And I know why it's one of the seven wonders. Hopefully you'll see by the end of the post.
So here we go. Pictures.

We traveled from Paraguay to Brasil

Brasil to Argentina..

Butterfly!

At the hotel

Nadia admiring a tree

My point of view admiring a tree

Sooo tall!

Nadia again

Artsy picture

Look at these huge leaves!!

Another artsy photo, the leaves kind of took over the tree

God I'm artsy

So many pretty flowers

A flower that looks like purple leaves

All of these are at the hotel we stayed in

Butterfly!

Look, I visited one of the seven wonders of the world!

Americans!

Look at how attractive we are

Caroline

Nadia

My ticket: all of the tickets said our nationality as Spain

I told Nadia to give me her "I'm in the effing rainforest" face

This my friends is a coati. Its similar to a raccoon, but there were a ton of them in the park! You had to guard your food so that they wouldn't steal it

Look.

How beautiful.

This is.

Obvious why its one of the seven wonders.

Nadia's new hat/best friend in the hot sun

Me (note my fabulous cornrows, courtesy of Phoebe de Texas)

We took a boat to ride under some of the falls, we were DRENCHED afterwards

Phoebe

I can't even. Pictures don't even begin to describe.

Nadia at more of the falls

 

The pictures kinda stopped showing up. I know there's a lot more of them here without captions, but hopefully they kind of speak for themselves.

 

Pictures don't even touch the magnificence of this place. I wish I could buy everyone reading this tickets to come to the falls to see just how beautiful this was.