Today we started our community garden and we learned how to use machetes. We cleared the area of weeds and other unwanted materials. We also taught charlas about why organic gardens are important.

We built the fourth fogon today for Jorge and his family.

Today we taught a charla on the importance of trees today and we are hoping to get our trees very soon

I had a dream in Spanish last night! I am so excited about it. Midterm was todau. We stocked up on candy for the next two weeks and I talked to my family for a little bit.

Hey everyone, I have built 3 of the 6 fogons and I am starting my community garden next week. Paraguay is the most amazing place and I dont want to leave. See you all in three weeks...

We built the third fogon today and met a lot of new people who live on my side of the community.

Today we taught a charla about dental hygiene and distributed toothbrushes. We also taught them how to make their own toothbrushes, how to brush their teeth and the importance of dental hygiene. They were very thankful to the Ledyard High School Key Club for getting all of the donations.

We finished the fogon today but it took all day. Andrea and I think it took so long because we are in the process of teaching Nelson, her host uncle, how to build fogons.

Click on the photo to see Angela during training (right). Read the initial update from AMIGOS to find out how her adventure began. Angela should be posting an update herself sometime next week.
- Mr. Jannke