An Only Child

I am now an only child. I just got back from a day or so in Asuncion (Paraguay's capital), sending my host sister off to France for a year. We certainly did make quite a group between Anahi's mother, father, best friend, half-brother, boyfriend, and I. Plus there was a friend of my mom's named Victor who lived in Asuncion and seemed to be our guide. We were supposed to leave Wednesday at 9:00 AM, but due to the effects of Paraguayan time, we were probably on the road around 10:00. It was a five hour drive, plus an hour for lunch. I tend to be prone to car sickness so I was sure to sleep the whole way.

After we got to Asuncion, we headed for the city's center in search of our "apartamento" and after asking three different pedestrians we found it. I was surprised at how large the place actually was. There were at least two bedrooms, a bathroom, living room, dining room, kitchen, laundry room and something resembling an office. I suppose it had to be pretty large in order to accommodate us all. We didn't hang out long though; simply dropped our stuff off and headed off again, this time in search for the woman who baptized Anahi. We managed to find her, her two small daughters and their two small dogs and hung out for an hour or so. The rest of the night was spent watching a movie (a pretty bad one called The Foreigner), played cards, eating the largest burgers I'd ever seen (they consisted of strip of steak, a fried egg, ham, cheese, lettuce, tomato, and bun), and sleeping as much as we could considering that we had to be at the airport by 2:00 AM for Anahi's flight.

1:00 AM came pretty quickly for me...in fact a little too quickly I think. We packed up into our two cars and set off for the airport. We ended up not leaving the airport until a little after 5:00 AM because we wanted not only to say goodbye, but to also wait until the plane was ready to go so that we could watch it actually take off. It was kinda cool I admit, I was just a bit tired at the time. The trip back was relatively uneventful, seeing how everyone our car slept the whole way. Luckily my host mom says I don't have to go to school today, so I can spend it lounging about, catching up on any sleep and writing this post.