October 17, 2011
Visit our LSP 11 Flickr page for all the highlights from LearnServe Paraguay 2011!
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July 11, 2011
Shacks decorate the barren landscape. Clothes, strung from trees, shelter tied up with string and sheet metal. A poignant stench fills the air as tho to knock someone out within a first encounter. Poverty. The brown dark streets lay miles ahead in an endless sea…
July 10, 2011
Today was the last day for all the Santa Ana, San Jose, and LearnServe people to hang out. in the morning, Fernanda and I got ready for lunch at Macarena’s house. We ate food at Mac’s house, then watched the first half of the soccer…
July 9, 2011
After a week of little or no sleep, all of us were feeling the toll of sleep deprivation. However, I was thrust into the spotlight as I lead the morning’s dinamica, or warm-up. I chose the game…
LearnServe and el Centro made it into the news here in Asuncion! Several reporters from la Ultima Hora, one of Paraguay’s leading newspapers, followed around our work groups for the last few days, interviewing students and taking pictures of our work in Santa Ana.
Read the article…
Life in Santa Ana is so different from what we’re used to seeing in the U.S. or even Isla Pucu. Here the people are impoverished, yes, but when you’re around the people talking with them or working with them they don’t seem like they’re poor…
July 7, 2011
Since Monday I have been part of the sports group (but don’t let the name fool you- it has nothing to do with sports). The purpose of my group was to organize and distribute all of the clothes that Learn-Serve collected before the trip.
In…
Often times people aren’t aware of their surrroundings.
Today, July 4th there was a culture clash between San Jose, who texted on their phone every 10 minutes, and Santa Ana, who payed attention to the lesson. San Jose is the wealthy class of Paraguay while…
July 6, 2011
Yesterday, on America’s independence day, I was feeling very sick, and when you are sick you always think of home. However, all I could think of yesterday was Isla Pucu. I had been living there with a great family for almost a week and I…
July 5, 2011
The past few days have been somewhat of a blur, with each day blending into the next. Today was our first day back in Asuncion, but this time we aren’t staying in Hotel Chaco. This time, we are staying with the kids in colegio San…