It was exciting because since it was all the way down south in my neck of the woods, a bunch of my friends were finally able to come visit me and see my beautiful site! The resort was right outside of Encarnacion so it was super easy to get to from my house. Approximately 70 PCVs joined together to share the holiday, from all different G's. it was so awesome to be able to meet everyone that we may not have met before over a span of a couple days.
Let's talk Thanksgiving dinner. We were so lucky to have the most AMAZING cooking committee (yeah peace corps is reallllllly into making committees) and obviously one of my best friends here, Bonna, was in charge of the desserts. She made the most delicious pumpkin pies from scratch plus some other goodies. It really was impressive that we had turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, everything we could've wanted. Instead of cranberry sauce, they got creative and made a super delish mango chutney. These PCVs knowwww how to cook. I'm slightly jealous. So we had our dinner, we sang the national anthem, which was kinda weird because I hadn't heard that tune in forever. And we just had a really good time.
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| The whole group at Thanksgiving dinner! |
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| G-44 Love |
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| YUM! |
The rest of the weekend was Beer Olympics. can you say "FUN"?! so my team was all G-44ers duh. Me, Jen, Bonna, Steph and Michael. We mayyyy have gotten a little carried away and made team theme and outfits. Were we the only ones? yes. Did we look fabulous? also yes. Don't regret that for a second! If you know the show It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia then you'll understand. If you don't know the show, stop immediately and go watch it. It's hilarious. We were The Gang from that show. We were each assigned a character and made outfits to match. Our team was actually called "It's Always Sunny in Paraguay" which is fitting for obvious reasons. The best part of the day was the volleyball competition. I had assumed early on that we would just get killed immediately. But that wasn't the case at all, we actually made it to 3rd place (i'm pretty sure!)!
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| just being casual, stoop chillin' with The Gang |
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| Charlie (Steph), Dennis (Jen), Mac (me) and Frank (Bonna). oh and Michael was Sweet Dee. |
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| this butterfly was super cute and kept landing on me, but then things got super pesada and it would NOT leave me alone. it was pretty much a butterfly attack, if I ever saw one hahah |
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| waiting to play some Volley |
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| we tried to lift Sweet Dee....but then for some reason 3 of us held his legs and gave all the heavy parts to poor little Bonna. HAHAHA not a success |
After we ended our fabulous time at the resort, The Gang and I decided to go to Encarn for the day to get some errands run and have a nice dinner and spend the day at the beach! It was great. Plus we finally put the finishing touches on our vacation to Uruguay and Buenos Aires by buying our bus tickets!
Oh and we also found a Starbucks-esque type coffee shop that had iced coffees with many flavors and delicious looking sandwiches and salads. Hallelujah!
Now I have literally nothing going on until vacation. soooo the days are going to go pretty slowly because I have nothing to fill them with but reading, relaxing, watching movies, and hanging out with my host family. I'll probably try to start working on that World Summer Camp that i'm doing with my two friends. We'll see. I just CANNOT wait for vacation. I'm so stoked!
Until Next Time,
xox
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