First, I'm blown away that this first semester is almost over; where did the time go??? This is my last week of teaching, followed by review-week next week, and then finals...I did it! Well, almost ;)
The past few weeks have been busy, but enormously enjoyable! After the pep rally a few weeks ago, I went to a David Guetta (enormously popular DJ down here) concert just outside Asuncion and IT WAS AWESOME!!! It was exactly what I needed. As cheesy as it sounds, I really love when so many people can come together and enjoy something such as music. I mean really, when do so many different walks of life all come together? Anyway, it was great. So great that we were out til 6am...oops!
Around that same time, I finally started taking Spanish lessons and just today I got complimented on my accent...guess the lessons (plus 9 years of Spanish in school) are starting to pay off!
Let's see...what else? Oh, last week was Thanksgiving and one of the houses of teachers here hosted a huge potluck dinner. We had about 20 people there, plus all the fixin's. It was an insane amount of food! So thankful for this opportunity and cannot wait to share all my stories with a lot of you when I'm home in 3 weeks!!! Can you believe it?!
And, most recently, I went to Iguazu Falls and it was AMAZING....absolutely stunning. The pictures don't even begin to capture the beauty of this natural wonder. Plus, it was a comical trip filled with memories for a lifetime (remember how I told some of you that I wanted more stories to tell when I was older....got 'em!)!
Waiting to boat our way to Argentina. That's Brazil on the left and Argentina on the right.
Our boat that carried us legally into Argentina. (We don't have Brazilian visas which forced us to be creative when trying to get to the falls!)
In the middle of the boat ride, we were between all three countries. There's Brazil...
Argentina,
and back behind...Paraguay!
Now, onto the Falls!!! First look...
Beautiful creatures on the way...
And, the first breathtaking look at Iguazu Falls...
Here are some more to tide you over....
That's a boat down there! We did that on day 2 :)
A crazy, cool fig tree on a lil' detour to get lunch
And, more falls...obviously, it was hard to pick which pictures to put up;)
Just walking along :)
My favorite little nook of the falls!
The two brothers...
Okay, and last but not least...THE DEVIL'S THROAT!!!
So yeah, that's my life in review as of late. Tons more has happened...like the story of the old man who works at a nearby corner store and the crazy conversation we had, but some things are better left to be told in person...hehe! So for now, enjoy. Hopefully I'll post some more before I leave for break, but if not, look for lots of posts come February!
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