New Year

It’s a few minutes before the New Year and I am supposed to be at a party with friends from my last year, which includes the hike up the nearby city-centre hill to watch the fireworks at midnight, but I am held up on the wild edge of the city at the Bible college.  The college has a big, warm library, and as the whole campus would have been empty, I thought I’d spend a few uninterrupted hours there in the peace and warmth studying.It turned out I wasn’t alone: Timothy had returned for the new semester (17 days early) and the studying turned into a video game afternoon.Wan turned up and we got a pizza meal deal and hung out in the common...

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Language

I have to learn 2 new languages.  One is the language of the conquerors, the other of the natives.  I can only find resources for the former however, so that will have to do.“You only need to know between 600 and 1500 words to communicate well,” people say.  That’s a snap… maybe.  I have several language guides, one being a now-deceased man.  Wait, that sounds peculiar!  It’s an audio language guide led by a man who passed away in recent years.  Additionally I have a partially-interesting Spanish glossy gossip magazine with posed photos of human zoo exhibits.  Add to this a 2-way dictionary and a Santa...

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Books on Paraguay

A lot has been written about Paraguay, just not a lot has been published, and even less is available in the local bookshop.  There was a wall of 2000 travel books, and with 196 countries in the world, there was, statistically speaking, 10 books on Paraguay.  There ended up being 60 on Paraguay.  Not books, but rather pages from those 2000 books.58 of them came in a book on Argentina, probably because in Argentina you have to know your enemy.  The 2 other pages came in a book about amazing places off the beaten track.  It was of a piranha-infested river that runs through Paraguay.  Certainly a river of man-eating...

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Paraguay 2012!

After discipleship training school, Bible college and a year as an intern I’m spending a half year adventuring in Paraguay as a media scout.  I will post videos and tales here, as well as any pictures of killer animals spotted from safe vantage points...

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