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Was last week’s solar eclipse visible in the northern hemisphere, too? Ña Carmen was very thoughtful to tell me about it and so one of the radio DJs and I went out to look. We went during the middle of its projected showing, but couldn’t really see anything.

Eclipse or no, we have had some spectacular sunsets and sunrises lately. A lot of the local estancias have been having terrible brush fires due to our long-running (but very recently alleviated) drought. We aren’t threatened by the fires here, but we did get a tremendous amount of smoke, giving us some really extravagant twilight hours.

The Guaraní word of the day is pyhareve, meaning morning. In order to make the most out of each Horqueta trip, I get up really freaking early in the pyhareve. You need to be at the town bus stop at 5:30 to get the first bus out of Tacuatí, and you do need the first one. Depending on what return buses are operating that day, I have between two and a half and five hours to hit the bank, buy vegetables and whatever else I can’t find in site, meet and greet other Volunteers, and get online. Previous trips were quickly consumed with house wares shopping, but I’m hoping things will proceed at a more leisurely pace now that I’ve more or less got my apartment furnished. On the other hand, now I’ll have fewer excuses to go in.

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