El Segundo Campamento

I realize I haven´t posted in awhile (except for the previous post which I just posted...) and some people may have been slightly concerned (sorry Mom...) or maybe just looking for some fun stories. My excuse for not writing sooner is that I spent the past weekend in Asuncion for our second AFS orientation.

The 7 CDE kids all made it to our 7 AM bus and settled in for the 5 hour ride to Paraguay´s capital. The trip was relatively uneventful besides the occasional looks we got for shouting English between rows...I ended up sitting next to a very nice Paraguayan man named Omar who told me all about his life, family and travels. It was good practice for my Spanish, plus he let me go to sleep when he noticed I was tired (always a plus in a traveling companion). After arriving we went to the AFS National office while kids trickled in from all over the country. It was great to see all the U.S. kids once again.

The camp itself was hosted by the Pueble Hotel in San Bernadino. The hotel was really nice and the food was great. We spent the weekend hanging out, talking in English, destroying all the progress we had made thus far with our Spanish, and found time to watch the big Paraguay-Argentina soccer game. The weekend seemed to go really quickly and I was sad to leave everyone. The trip back was pretty easy. Somehow we ended up on a really pimped out bus with seats that we could basically lay down in. I´m a little worried that AFS took my passport and I still don´t have it back, but everything always seems to work out...

By the way, the photo is mainly for my mother (whom I love dearly!). She's really been wanting to see my school uniform. The black shirt I'm wearing underneath is technically contraband, but it was cold...