Blogs from Concepcion, Paraguay, South America - page 2

So I'm a red head again. One of the ladies in the church here is training to be a hairdresser and wanted someone to practice on, so I let her dye my hair. It may however have been slightly too ambitious of her to attempt that so soon in her studies, as I now have a lovely bright red forehead to match my lovely bright red hair. Oh well. It'll come off with some scrubbing, and she did dye my hair pretty well to be fair. I'm going to buy her a hairdryer before I leave, as she can't afford all the things she needs for the course so that'll help her a lot. So I've been back in Concepcion a week. The time has well and truly flown by. I haven't really done much different ... read more

Anyone who's reading this please pray for little Romina. She's just had her operation and the doctors are really worried about her, they say she's got a low temperatre and they said "If she turns blue, call us." So please please pray for her, that she would recover from her operation and that the Lord will keep her safe. Thanks.... read more

So I am accidentaly a mother. Walking along the street yesterday I saw the teeniest tiniest little kitten ever making the most noise I've ever heard a cat make EVER. She was clearly abandoned by either her mum or her owner and me being a massive sap couldn't just leave her there maybe to die so I brought her home. She went to the vets today for a flea bath and a worming tablet. She screamed the place down. But then she just generally is a screamer, she's either asleep or screaming, she has no other setting. She is adorable though. I'll only have her for 10 days because I'm going to Argentina for a holiday with Mum and Dad and my friend Zunni is going to look after her, I think it would be too ... read more

So I had a very enjoyable week last week, I dressed up as clown every day for all our kids clubs. It was great fun, I really do love pratting around. As such, I'm considering eschewing a real career in favour of spending my life working at Disneyland dressing up as Disney characters. I think it's a solid life plan. Alas my father doesn't agree. Thankfully there are is no photographic evidence of my week as a clown, so my dignity remains intact. Claire wanted to take photos, but she is forgetful and I neglected to remind her. I wore a multicoloured curly clown wig, facepaint, bright pink clothes and a massive pair of pink glases that were the size of my head. At the first kids club where we were doing this they asked us ... read more

27th Dec - 1st Jan 2008 - First up Happy New Year to all. Hope your celebrations were more exciting than ours but more about that later. We decided to go to Paraguay for a few days just to see what it was all about and avoid going back the same road we had come from, and it was about time I showed off my 30 Spainish words that I´ve managed to learn using my 'Learn Spainish CD´(of course this is now on my iPod for you tech heads that thought I might be carrying around a 100 CD´s). Got the bus from Bonito to the border town of Ponta Pora and had to spend the night there so as we could get our Brazilian exit stamp and Paraguayan entry stamp the next morning. Checked into ... read more