time - goes - by - so - quickly

It is the end of March already, and I can´t believe how fast it got here. It feels like yesterday that I was bording the last plane from Brazil into Paraguay, not really knowing what I was getting myself into, and now I´m into my last 3.5 months here. Part of feels like I am ready to get on the plane home, but more of me knows that my time here is not quite done yet and so I have to be content in knowing that this is where I am supposed to be right now. Today is my first day back to my volunteer placement after having a week off for vacation. This morning it was super hard for me to get out of bed - I was so ready to stay on vacation and never come back. When I got to work though, I had plesent surprises - no kids to look after until 11am, and tomorrow with them we are going to be making chipa (cheesy type bread) and having an easter egg hunt - this should be fun! God places things in our lives to brighten our days when we need them the most, and these both brightened my day!

So I mentioned vacation earlier - we spent the last week in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was beautiful!!! Very North American, but I totally didn´t mind - it was such a beautiful experience. I can´t wait to go back sometime. We took a 4 hour bike trip around the city, went to see a tango show (and even took lessons before hand), took a short bus/boat/train tour of a neighbouring city, walked ALOT, and even ended up going over to Uruguay for a day (one hour by boat). We took a first class bus home (my birthday present from the team) which had nearly fully reclining seats, good food and even blankets!! This was a super nice change from the bus we took down. The seats were much wider and better for getting comfortable for sleeping. The other buses are fine for the shorter 10 hour trips we´ve taken, but for the 18 hours it takes to get to and from BA, this was a nice treat. We ran into no problems this trip (other than missing the bike tour because we were at the worng park, but we took it the next day instead) and only being slightly late for a couple other things we had planned - but it all worked out in the end. We stayed in an apartment associated with a mennonite church in BA. It was in a house that the church rents out to students studying in BA. Our part consisted of a room with two sets of bunk beds with about 4ft in between that we squeezed a mattress into for me to sleep on. We also had another super small room attached to it with a small table, couple of chairs and a window - needless to say we spent the least amount of time possible there, and it had a slightly weird smell to it by the end of day two (we blamed that on the guys). All in all it was a great trip - a nice opportunity to have a slight taste of home away from home - totally different than Paraguay. But like the title of this post, the time went by super fast.

Our team has been so blessed with the opportunity to leave the country every 90days to renew our visas and see abit more of South America. We aren´t sure where we will go for the next one, but I think we hoping to head to Bolivia!