Unlike Panama, mosquitos are not controlled here and they have plenty of them. I was raised with mosquitos, but haven't had to put up with them for years.
One good thing about living up so high in the apartment building, besides the view, is that mosquitos tend to live and play near the ground. The locals say that they stay on or below the third floor, that's the fourth floor in the US. They don't count the ground floor here. I live on the fifth floor.
Hello, my friend, DEET. It's sunscreen and DEET for the next year.
In other news, I found out how to get water delivered to the apartment. It costs about the same as the grocery store, but, I don't have to carry the equivalent of a gallon a day into my apartment.
Skype works off of my cellular service when I have over three bars on my phone. That's nice. It's amazing that I can communicate with home all that I want to for $3/month extra.
I don't use it much, but, Google has a free iPhone app that lets you speak Engligh into the phone and it will translate what you say into Spanish (or other) languages. It can even speak Spanish back to you.
A coworker back in the home office is my "ambassador". That's a neat concept. My ambassador keeps in touch and offered to send a little something that I may miss such as peanut butter. Well, I got to thinking and it's the intangible, little things that I miss besides my family. Driving, clean and nice roads, no horns blaring when the lights change and (this is a little crass, but true) I really miss American plumbing! Most, if not all, of the third world does not have the sewer systems to handle tissue paper.
The project is slow to get started and this would be one of the best times to go see the Falls do Iguacu. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iguazu_Falls) When I started to check into the best way to go, I found out that we may have to leave the country every 90 days and then reenter for another 90. This is Paraguayan law. So, there is a decent chance that I may have reason to go to one of the surrounding countries. We'll see. It would be nice to be able to visit without having to pay for the visas and travel. It looks like the costs are similar to go to the Falls or Buenas Aires. The bottom line is that I will probably hold off going to the falls until September. They are awesome. I went there with Natalie and John Mihai when he was a year old. I definitely want to go back.
More to come......
One good thing about living up so high in the apartment building, besides the view, is that mosquitos tend to live and play near the ground. The locals say that they stay on or below the third floor, that's the fourth floor in the US. They don't count the ground floor here. I live on the fifth floor.
Hello, my friend, DEET. It's sunscreen and DEET for the next year.
In other news, I found out how to get water delivered to the apartment. It costs about the same as the grocery store, but, I don't have to carry the equivalent of a gallon a day into my apartment.
Skype works off of my cellular service when I have over three bars on my phone. That's nice. It's amazing that I can communicate with home all that I want to for $3/month extra.
I don't use it much, but, Google has a free iPhone app that lets you speak Engligh into the phone and it will translate what you say into Spanish (or other) languages. It can even speak Spanish back to you.
A coworker back in the home office is my "ambassador". That's a neat concept. My ambassador keeps in touch and offered to send a little something that I may miss such as peanut butter. Well, I got to thinking and it's the intangible, little things that I miss besides my family. Driving, clean and nice roads, no horns blaring when the lights change and (this is a little crass, but true) I really miss American plumbing! Most, if not all, of the third world does not have the sewer systems to handle tissue paper.
The project is slow to get started and this would be one of the best times to go see the Falls do Iguacu. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iguazu_Falls) When I started to check into the best way to go, I found out that we may have to leave the country every 90 days and then reenter for another 90. This is Paraguayan law. So, there is a decent chance that I may have reason to go to one of the surrounding countries. We'll see. It would be nice to be able to visit without having to pay for the visas and travel. It looks like the costs are similar to go to the Falls or Buenas Aires. The bottom line is that I will probably hold off going to the falls until September. They are awesome. I went there with Natalie and John Mihai when he was a year old. I definitely want to go back.
More to come......
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