Pito

This is Pito. He is my nemisis here in Paraguay. For those of you who don´t speak spanish pito is a word for penis. I don´t know why they chose Pito as a name but he is the only rooster that has a name at my house and there are 40 roosters and chickens at my house. The reason Pito has a name is that he was born blind and my family nursed him though infancy and appaerntly grew attached to him.
The reason he has become my nemisis here is that every morning at 6am he stands directly outside my window and crows for about 20 minutes. I have to get up at 7 so he cheats me out of an hour of sleep everyday. This is why I have grown to hate him but I don´t say anything to my family because they are so attached to him. One day I saw him walking around and he was wet. I asked my host dad why he was wet and he said that my host mom had just given him a bath. I have never heard of anyone bathing a chicken before but I guess they really like this rooster. Another thing that I don´t like about him is that when I first got here he had bird flu. That´s right bird flu. It was kind of funny to watch him cough but at the same time it was really scary because of all the hype bird flu has been getting in the US media. Anyways there is too much going on with this rooster for me to pass up writing about him.

Mi Casa

This is my house. Most of the time there are only four of us staying in it but people come and go alot. I have my own room and there is two other "bedrooms"(they are more like dormrooms)a kitchen, bathroom and a tiny living room. Most of the time we hang out out side. We eat out side with chickens running around, we sit outside and drink têrere, we even watch tv from out side even though the tv is inside. It is really nice outside because there are tons of fruit trees (mangos, pomeloes, limons, passion fruit, papaya) around and it is ussually to hot to hang out inside. The neighborhood I am in is rural but it is close to a couple towns. I guess it is kindof like a suburb. My house is right behind the house we use for our clases so I get to sleep in a little later than most. It is pretty quite in the hood. There is not much to do. One of my friends has a vollyball court that everyone hangs out at in the evenings but that is about it.