Countdown
One of the odd little side effects of being in the southern hemisphere is that our daylight savings times are also backwards. Since our summer is just now getting cranking, we’re going to spring forward here shortly.
Up until now, we’ve been synched up with US Eastern Standard Time. But when Paraguay’s daylight savings time takes effect this weekend, we’ll spring forward an hour. And here shortly, DST will come to an end in the US and y’all will fall back.
End result, I’ll shortly be two hours offset, time zone wise. If it’s 8 o’clock in the US, it’ll be 10 o’clock here, and so on. In general, the best hours to catch me by phone are in the evening, say between 7 and 10 PM local time.
The Guaraní word of the day is kuarahy, meaning sun. We’re seeing quite a bit of it now. I amused lots of Paraguayans last week with my peeling sunburn, and I’m working on a very impressive farmer’s tan.