Zumbahape

For over a year now I have been trying to start an exercise group of some kind with the women in my community but never with any success. Paraguayans think that exercise is only for fat people and have a lot of shame doing it publicly because its not part of their culture like it is in the States. But somehow I got lucky and my two neighbors and two other members of their family and I have a zumba class going!! We do it Monday-Friday in the afternoon (okay let's be real, some days we skip) but it has been fairly consistent for almost a month now which is a huge success I never imagined! The attendance varies greatly and sometimes its just the kids that follow me around everywhere but for the most part I'm really excited about it and they love it too! Something new and different and they are excited about the potential weight loss (who isn't really?) and yay yay yay!

A quick funny story related to zumba is that we were doing it behind the health post because its the only really community space that is somewhat hidden so people can't watch us. But one afternoon one of the kids left the water spout open so water was draining out of it and we didn't notice so the entire community was without water access for the whole evening and next morning. Oops! Sorry community, my bad! And so we are now banned from doing it there and had to switch to a woman's house haha. Not my best moment....