We found an apartment on Tuesday, which is a huge relief. Our apartment is two bedrooms and is about a 1/2 mile walk from the school. It's in a complex of about 30 apartments and has a small pool, which will be a nice refuge in the hot summers. It even has a room and bathroom for the empleada (maid)! We will be using that space for a closet, but it is quite common for affluent people here to have a live-in maid. It can be expensive to live in this neighborhood, so we were lucky to find something within our housing budget so close to school. We won't be able to move in until the end of next week. Things move very slowly in Paraguay, something we are learning during the process of getting settled in.
In our free time, we've been looking for items for our house for when we are ready to move it. We visited a used furniture store today and are visiting an open air market called Mercado Quatro tomorrow. The school has been treating us very well and has been really supportive so far. Several returning teachers have volunteered their time to show us around, take us to look at houses, take us shopping, and answer our endless questions. Today, all the new teachers and any returning staff that is around went out to lunch at a "churrascaria" or a Brazillian grill. The waiters come around with various meat on a long skewer and slice off whatever you want directly onto your plate. I had some amazingly delicious food today, half of which I had no idea what it was. It's an all you can eat situation and we certainly ate.
all beer is served on ice here!
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