Children's Day and my Second Week

Its really been two weeks? Oh wow, time really does fly!
Highlights of my week:

Thursday: I went to my uncle's birthday party. Caroline came too. We were there for the afternoon to eat lunch and just chill out, then we came back later. Caroline brought her guitar and her dad's computer for karaoke. She sang a song (WOW!) and then her dad and his friends sang a lot of karaoke. Also, they said the mayor of Coronel Oviedo was there too, and he sang karaoke!

Friday was Dia de los Ninos (my computer doesn't have accents). It's basically a day that celebrates children in Paraguay. I went to a rotary member's house and along with the other exchange students make over 300 gift bags for poor children that live outside of Coronel Oviedo. It was so fun being with all the children and giving them the chance to celebrate Dia de los Ninos.

 Also that night, I went to my first Rotary meeting here in Paraguay. There was only about 10 Rotary members there, and the exchange students. It was very chill. Two of the exchange students from last year did their presentations about their year in the U.S. The meeting started at 9. At night. Way different. After the presentations, I thought we were done. Nope! We ate supper there too, at 10:30 at night. I didn't get home until around 11:30. Needless to say, I was pretty tired.

But the next morning, I was up before 6! My mom woke me up and said we were going to visit the farm. It's so huge! I don't even know how big it is. There's a whole forest inside of it!

On Sunday I skyped with Gabby for a while, and then visited my grandparents' house. Also I had to do my homework. It's a lot harder than you'd think to write papers in Spanish. But I got it done!

Monday I went to school again. I'm actually participating in school, and my teachers complimented me on my workmanship. That made me really happy. :) When I came home I got to play with Danna for a little bit, and I actually understood a few things she said! I can tell that my Spanish is slowly improving.

Wednesday I got ice cream with some of my friends from school. We forgot to take pictures though. I had dulce de leche flavored ice cream. YUM!

That was my second week here. Sorry the post is a little late, but hey it's here!