After seven
months in Paraguay, I was lucky enough to get to go home for a week! My sister
Sydney got married on April 21st and I arrived home on April 15th. Unfortunately, I had mandatory training for
the Peace Corps that started on April 23rd. The flight home was pretty long. I arrived to the airport in Asuncion at 8
o’clock in the morning on Saturday and finally made it to Georgia by 10 am on
Sunday. I went from Asuncion to Cuidad del Este to Sao Paulo to Miami and
finally ended in Atlanta. My Dad met me
at the airport and back to the farm we went!
The week before the wedding went really well. It was a little stressful since the wedding
was at our house and everyone had to help out (I drug my feet a little bit
here). For some reason a part of me
wasn’t too excited about spending my vacation from being an Agricultural
extensionist in Paraguay by gardening in Georgia.
While I was home
I also managed to go to Columbia, South Carolina to visit some of my friends
from College. I was extremely thankful
that they took the time from Graduate School and real jobs to hang out with me
for the night. My roommate from college, Devika, also managed to come to be my
date for the wedding even though she had finals the following week. She was
also nice enough to help my Mom out during the wedding, as did my friends Emily
and Meredith.
The wedding was
absolutely beautiful. My whole family
obviously put a lot of work into it and it was a very special day. All of the groomsmen wore bowties and
converse and naturally my Dad wore jeans and a cummerbund. I am extremely grateful that I was able to
attend the wedding and that Syd and Jason were nice enough to hold off getting
married until I had been in site for the appropriate amount of time (PCV’s
aren’t allowed to leave site until they have been there for 3 months, which for
me was March 13). Seeing everyone was
also a lot harder than I expected. I
think the reason for this is that when I am not seeing everyone it is easy to
not realize how much I really miss them.
After spending a
week eating fantastic food and seeing family it was back to Paraguay for
me. I was sad to leave but ready to get
back to Paraguay. I am finally getting
to a point in my service where I feel like there are projects that I can start.
It was also really nice talking to everyone at the wedding and seeing that
people actually read my blog. To
everyone that I talked to about the Peace Corps: thanks for caring enough to
talk with me about it! I also managed to bring back a French press so I am back
to drinking good coffee! If anyone wants to send me something to help get me
through the winter (House without insulation) strong coffee is the way to
go!
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