House hunt completed. I'm very excited. I've never house hunted anywhere really. Except on home garden television. And house hunting in Paraguay is quite the experience, let me tell you. Basically I went house to house in my community meeting people, accepting their food, drinking terere, and casually throwing into the conversation that I'm looking for a place to live alone for two years. And this is where their jaws drop. Alone? How dangerous. How weird. How strange. How ridiculous. Completely alone? Why? It's just so not in their culture to be by yourself. Ever. If I want my alone time they think I am either extremely depressed, sick, or hate Paraguayans. So living alone is a whole nother level. Paraguayans generally stay with their family for their entire lives, often in the same house, maybe they move across the street. So for me to move to another country where my family is so mombyry (far) where I dont speak the language and want to live completely on my own is just a pretty strange concept. But nonetheless after 6 weeks of looking, I finally found a house. My first house. Needs a little bit of work. I'm gonna do a lot of yard work, paint, complete the shower, build a sink, and possibly tile the bathroom if I'm feeling fancy. Good parts are that I have 7 clementine trees in my yard and this is the season so I will be eating my weight in clementines every day. It has running water and electricity already. My neighbors are super guapo and awesome. And I have the freedom to do whatever I want to the house. Oh, and I'm not paying rent, only water and electricity. So I feel like it can't get much better really. I'm excited for the repairs and I'll obviously send pictures of the final product. Wish me luck!!!!
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