Trece y medio

 Let me give you a few facts to tide you over til next time I write.    

There are normal names here like Nicole and Peter (Pedro) but I find some other names very interesting. We have neighbors named Moses and Snow White (Moises y Blanca Nieve.)  A friend named Bethlehem (Belen) and I thought there was more I was going to add to this but I forget what.   

The waitress or shop keeper babysits for you.   

The high up consulate WhatsApps with his ‘customers.’  You can order pizza by WhatsApp. You can get diapers or cheese or other packages delivered to your gate, by WhatsApp. You can do anything with WhatsApp seems like.   

Due to Covid, at most places there’s at least one barrel with a sink set into the top beside the door and some soap and paper towel. The question is whether or not you have to use it. Same with masks.   

The guard at the door of the store carries a spray bottle with hand sanitizer along with his gun.   

McDonalds has 2 floors. With a balcony on the second.  

At some restaurants you buy your food by the weight. You can buy frozen yogurt by the weight. Fabric by the weight (but not at restaurants.)   

You shake hands and greet everybody. If you are in the middle of a volley ball game when someone arrives, one of the first things you do when the game is done is to shake hands with the newcomer.

 The other thing you do is crowd around the person serving terere so you can be served next.   

If the fruit tree on your yard spreads its branches over the fence, the fruit on those branches is fair game. Even if you are standing right there talking with them.   

Sunday School is interrupted by a pig.   

And of course I have had more brilliant ideas but they slipped my mind somehow.    

 

 

And then a few comments I found interesting   

From a 4-year-old: ‘I have a big heart!’  

 From a 7-year-old when Mom wished something would have happened faster: ‘But Mom! This is Paraguay.’   

 Maybe I should title this ‘You know you’re in Paraguay if…’ bit these are just random tidbits that I’ve hard about or that have happened to me  and don’t necessarily happen thru out Paraguay.