Paraguay

After a two hour delay in Chicago, 6 hour layover in the Orlando Airport, a basically sleepless 9 hour red eye flight to Brazil, and another short layover in Brazil, I arrived in Asuncion Paraguay yesterday at about 1030 am. A very friendly group of people from the church I will be working with met us after we got off the plane, and took us back to their house for lunch. After we ate I found myself saying goodbye to Jono and Daniel as I was being ushered into a car without seeing Rose and Naomi. This was mega scary for me. I got to my host family´s house safely though and was met by a wonderful woman named Lida, she is my host mom. I have one sister named Raquel, and a father named Alberto. All very wonderful people, and remind me off my parents in Canada. They have a beautiful house, very different then Canada though, as most of the outside walls are just like fences with curtains infront because it gets so warm. My first night was good, although very hard to communicate. Raquel and I can use a mixture of spanish and english to talk to each other, but my parents speak no english. God provided me an angle though, in the form of a middle age british woman who just happens to live right above us in an apartment. Her name is Bobs and can speak fluent english and spanish. The 5 of us start spanish lessons with a lady named Laura tomorrow, and I have yet to find out what I will be doing in the church. This is ok though, as I would like to learn the language abit first. This is a beautiful country to live in. It´s very different from home. They have cobblestone streets, giant frogs and dogs everywhere. This morning I also saw a random cow and some chickens walking around in the street. Now that I am here and have a family, a friend and less unknowns I am so much less worried then I was 36 hours ago when I started travelling here. God really does provide!