Lifelike

It's been a while since I've taken pictures. Sometimes I just feel weird and more judged than normal by bringing my iphone around in a third world country.  Sometimes I completely forget, or it's not charged.  But most of the time I just don't even think about it.  Paraguay is my life now.  Things are settling into place and not everything is new and exciting anymore.  Which sounds depressing but really it's quite comforting. You wouldn't take your camera to work, or to cook dinner (unless you are one of those people who post everything you eat on facebook....which by the way is just plain rude when you're friends with peace corps volunteers), or to the supermarket, or to go watch tv with your friends.  You take it to events that are different from your everyday life.  And my days are starting to become less eventful and more normal.  More lifelike.  And I'm really happy about it.  

But I decided to take my camera this morning to an average day in the life.  So here's a few photos for ya!

I eat my weight in clementines every day. Apparently they all fall off in August so I don't have too much time to eat the thousands that are in my yard on the trees. 

Animals in the kitchen.  Very normal.  Lifelike. 

The beautiful garden I made with a Señora.  I made my own too and am waiting for my seeds to grow :-) more on that in another post.  

Banana season is coming up!! All the Señoras love my banana bread!! 

A tatakua. Basically a brick oven used to cook traditional Paraguayan food. 

Another chicken down.  You know the rest.

Some of my kiddos.  They're perfect.

The kitchen.  I'm getting used to gathering wood and chopping it up to light a fire.  And to think I lit my first match a week before Paraguay.  

The making of sopa paraguaya, a traditional food that I really like.  They use leaves for a banana plant as wax paper or Pam.  Resourceful.... Always.

And that's a morning in the life of Arianna.  I think I'm becoming more Paraguayan than I thought.  Although, more to come on my VERY american weekend.  Fourth of July has never been so important or fun :-)

Hope all is well with you guys!! Missing everyone tons!