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This is it - I’m leaving Tacuatí for as far as I can see early on Saturday morning. After two years, I’m scared and relieved and sad and excited. I’m having cake with my host family tonight. Tomorrow I’ll throw a little party for my friends around town with sopa paraguaya (think corn bread, but with cheese and onions - Paraguayans are inordinately proud that this is their best-known contribution to gastronomy), coke, and still more cake.

I’m going to let the kids draw lots for turns at picking and choosing among the toys you kind souls have sent over the past two years - there should be plenty to go around. The semi-salvagable parts of my wardrobe and assorted gadgets are up for grabs to the adults.  And then Liam and I will load the last of my furniture over to his house, and then Opama cheroga. Ndaikoi Tacuatíme.

Above, my bathroom window. Since the climate here is so swampy, there’s more need to let drafts pass than keep them out, and most windows don’t have glass. They made this one by  sinking a bottle crate into the brick wall as they built this part of my house.

The Guaraní word of the day is potí, meaning clean. I don’t think cheroga has been so potí since I moved in.

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