It has been so long since it has gotten cold in Paraguay that I forgot that it does get cold.  Northern Paraguay was hit with some major rain storms yesterday that caused the weather to cool off.  I am walking around in a sweater and jeans today which was unheard of a week ago.  I´ll give it about two days before it is hot as h--l again.

One of the major initiatives of the new mayor is to clean up the city.  Part of my current work is assisting the Secretary of the Environment in the Municipality to organize a project of major city cleanup and environmental education.  We invited another Peace Corps Volunteer, Shannon Smith, up to do two workshop on managing trash on Wednesday.  The first workshop was for authorities of which many did not show up and the second one was for teachers and youth of which about 50 people showed up.  It shows who are the ones who care about the public health disaster that is associated with the mess of trash that we have in the city.