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Yes, it’s true… they have matzo ball soup in Paraguay, but they call it bori bori!  I had it for the first time for lunch today and it was delicious!  My host mom cooked it with vegetables and beef.  The matzo balls were really small, but tasty.

I am still sick and am now taking antibiotics.  I have a sinus infection.  The rest of Paraguay also seems to be sick.  In fact even though winter break for schools here is supposed to end this week, the government extended the school break for another whole week because of the influenza breakout! 

I’m going to Asuncion tomorrow for an event called The Expo.  It sounds similar to a fair, where Paraguayan’s and other nearby countries can have a display of the products they sell. 

6 more days until I find out my future site for 2 years… and I’m still feeling very nervous.  I hope it’s a good one!!!

Yours Truly, Julie G

I’m sick with a cold, or the flu.  All of my host brothers have been sick with the same illness the past week or so, but somehow my host mom is convinced that I got sick because I take showers in the morning!  We even watched a news story on tv about how many people have the flu in Paraguay right now, but that’s not how I got it! 

On a lighter note, I saw the craziest thing I’ve seen so far in Paraguay.  Most of the kids on my street have pink eye right now, and for some reason they’ve all been coming over to my house to get treated.  I never thought much of it when my host mom would put a spoonful of something into the kid’s eye.  Well today, when I was home for lunch, it was discovered that my 4 year old host brother caught pink eye.  So as we are sitting outside on the patio, my host mom grabs the 4 year old, lays him on her lap, and proceeded to squirt her breast milk into his eye!!!  Wow!!!  She said they only use natural remedies in Paraguay, and that’s the cure for pink eye.

My biggest concern right now is that I’m going to catch pink eye.  I think I may have nightmares about my host mom chasing me down to squirt breast milk in my eye! 

That’s all for now!

Yours Truly, Julie G