Money matters
The Peace Corps gives trainees living expenses of approximately 17,000 Guaraní a day. This is intended to cover things like bus fare, snacks, and replenishing our soaps and such. Our host families are paid Gs. 27,000 a day for our basic care and feeding (although we trainees don’t handle that money at all). Trainees pay an additional Gs. 10,000 out of pocket for every 12 items of laundry.
Our Gs. 17,000 per diem works out to about $3 a day. It’s enough.
On our first day here, we were given Gs. 240,000 and an admonition not to spend it all in one place. I’ve done pretty well. I’m got another week to payday and about Gs. 100,000 left. We’ve got a big trip coming up on Wednesday and a holiday today. Should be doable, though. In a typical in-community day, I might spend 5 mil on an after-class beer with friends or a can of bug repellent. On a big spending day, I might put down 40 mil: 8 on bus fare to and from Guarambaré, 5 for an hour online, 2 on a snack from the training facility’s kitchen, and the remaining 25 mil on a splurge item like a Thermos bottle. There are a few things I can’t quite afford yet (my favorite shampoo in the US costs 45 mil for a travel size bottle here) but these are few and far in between. 
The Guaraní word du jour is ja´gua. You might guess that this means jaguar, and you´d be right. But to the best of my knowledge, there are no jaguars in Paraguay. Due to an 18th century translation mishap, the Guaraní word for dog got attached to that other indigenous four legged carnivore.