more pictures... some, just to make you a bit jealous

My bus station

Plaza in the middle of the school building where we have our Spanish classes

View from one of the classrooms. It looks nice. Horrible to study though because the cars on the road near by make a lot of noise!

Skyline of Paraná. At Thompson Beach.

Big dead turtle at beach. It was about 40 cm long... There is a lot of garbage at the coast and many fish are dying, too.

I saw that car today! Such things drive here!!!!

Peaches... In our garden. Not ripe, yet.

On a Tuesday afternoon.

It is Siesta time... Karl Oskar and I are the only ones in the office right now. At 16:00 we have Spanish classes. That is quite soon. haven´t finished homework. It is getting too much. I don´t find time to do the homework, or at least I don´t feel like spending the 1 hour after dinner and washing dishes before going to bed with spanish homework! I think I will complain today that is getting too much. We are having so many different teachers so it is a bit difficult at times.
During weekend I was sick. Had a fever and stomach ache. Now I am fine. During last week we prepared the "2 Fiesta Nacional de Reciclaje" painting huge carton stands and glueing letters onto them. So we got to do something else for a while... And the books could rest for a week. I missed the whole Fiesta since I was lying in bed. Keen to see some pictures at least. Many environmental groups had stands and talked about their projects. Today everything is normal again. Yesterday was good though. It was a Holiday. On Friday was " El dia de la Raza" and they have a law here in Argentina that if there is a holiday not the day itself is free but it gets transfered to the next Monday. Karl Oskar, Rochelle and I met up with a guy called Santiago and together we paddled to the big Island. At the beach we ran around, did some Circus stuff and later on we played some fotball in the sun. Very much enjoyable and holiday like!
I started a Diving Course! So far we are "only" practicing swimming but we are getting there. Next week we will start with snorkel and equipment and after some more weeks we will start practicing with the air bottles! We train 3 times a week! I like it so far and it is nice people, no problem for them that I sometimes don´t understand immediatley what they mean... It is good to have something else to do as well, having something to look forward to the coming weeks!

cloudy days

I just uploaded some pictures... They are not the most beautiful or touristic but I will provide you with that as well at some point!
What happend so far? I feel that I have a routine now. Getting up in the morning around 8:30, taking the bus an hour later. My breakfast is usually very calm, sitting usually outside, drinking tea with milk and eating some bread with Dulce de Leche. At Eco Urbano there is no stress... Usually I am checking my mails first and then start working with the libary. Alex and Karl Oskar do the same. Work here at Eco hasn´t changed much but I guess that we will finish copying book titles next week!!
Every Tuesday evening some engaded citizens meet at the Plaza in the centre of the city to discuss the future of their place. So we joined last time and got to meet some interesting people. Right now they are trying to convince the city gouvernment not to sell a park to companies that want to make a thermal, recreation and shopping centre out of it... We joined them the day after when they had an appointment in the municipality building. "We were the forgeigners that are concerned about the environment in Argentina writing articles about it in our home countries..."
We did not understand much during the discussion neither the argentinians, the sound was very bad. But I have got a catalogue of questions now... I would like to see the place now. Weekend was calm, distributed bags of compost for Eco Urbano and did some circus at Barriletes. Baked cake, Rochelle slept at my house because her family went to a birthday in another town. Yesterday, since it was the 3rd of October, I decided to bake again. Apfelstrudel! A lot of people have been asking me about it as it is apparently very german. It tasted okay but was verrry heavy, felt like I had a stone in my stomach. My hostfamily didn´t say anything but I guess they felt the same. Climate is getting more and more difficult. The days were sunny and hot. Now it is cloudy, warm and humid... On Sunday I was in the Park which resulted in 14 more Mosquito bites but a nice time with Mate and Empanadas etc. afterwards.
My Spanish is of course still improving, very slowly though. The books are not speaking to me... So the only time I really get to practice is in the evenings with my hostfamily before I go to bed.
Should do some work now!!

They are crazy about MATE here... Everybody!!

Que lindo...

Important men discussing the future of their city.....

View from the Municipality. The gate is the entrance to the " Escuela Normal" a beautiful old building where we have our Spanish classes every evening.

That´s what I see when I am standing at the bus stop in the morning on a clowdy day!