Happy Birthday

Dec.26, 93 (Sunday) Went to the city.  The city opens only half day today.

Dec.27, 93 (Monday) Shirley birthday

Invited workers to come to eat lunch .

Esmelda came to help Shirley. She gave Shirley  a wine bottle and a wine glass as present.

Carlos gave a blouse with color pink.

We have sandia. Its water melon season.

Luis Roberta was late we already finished eating when he came. In the afternoon it was raining.

Christmas in Paraguay

Dec. 20 1993 (Monday) Workers work up to 3:00PM only. Holiday mood. Some already started Christmas vacation.

The nephew of Lucy came to macosur selling Ice cream.  Carlos and Shirley bought 2 ice creams each..

December 21, 93 (Tuesday) Fixed a new air conditioner in my office.

Hugo was the one who put up the air condition is assisted by Luis .

Dec 24, 1993 (Friday) Lucy and Shirley  went to ciudad del este to buy something for tonight noche Buena. In ciudad del este only half day until 12:00.

Shirley cooked spaghetti for noche buena

Wife of Luis cooked mandiorka

Luis barbequing 2 whole chickens.

When 12:00 (Noche buena) came everybody greet each other . Luis kissed his wife. Carlos’s wife did not come.

While we are eating Eduardo came just to greet us.

Dec.25, 93 (Saturday) Its Christmas Day. At 8:30 we went to Church. Only 22 people in the church .

After reaching home we eat breakfast in the garden. We invited Luis, Jose,Nestor ,Mario was late. It was already 10:30 when we decided to go to house of Esmelda together with Jose.

In the house of Esmelda she introduce her daughter who was working in Argentina. After eating Lunch we go to the river to swim but we did not swim.

At around 2:30 We went to house of Torres after drinking coke we come back to macosur.

Gift Exchange again

December 19, 93 (Sunday) Today we had a very party than last Sunday.

The following workers who came were: 1 Raul Nunez, Maximo Paiva and the sister, Ana Maidana, Arcildo Varon, Jose Maciado, Valdovino, Hugo, Eduardo, Nestor, Lucy Luis, the late comer were Celia and Angel and also Jose

My gift from Carlos is brief and cap, Shirley gift from Ana was also a cap those are both nice. 

Driving

Dec.16, 93 (Thursday) An exciting day for Shirley for her first time to learn to drive a forklift and a car.

Nestor (the folk lift driver) taught her how to drive and lifting up the woods.

In the afternoon at around 5:00 P.M Jose and Evilio came with the car and brought us to KM 16 and 20 and teach her how to drive. Jose also brought us and shows us his house and it was a very nice place.

The company wants me to learn to drive because my works involved in traveling.

December17, 93 (Friday) Happy day for the all workers in this pay day.  Early payday in this month of December for a long Christmas holidays.

Other then  salary, the factory also give (regalo) of  el Pan and Sidra.

Sidra is a traditional beverage fermented from Apple juice.

At night Hugo Caballero invited us to his Despedida (means Farewell). He will walk to Asuncion.

Cabrua

14 December 1993

Christmas celebration started

Photo above : A party is not a party without dance

11 December 1993 (Saturday)

I stay at home while Shirley and Lucy went to Ciudad del Este to buy things for tomorrow Christmas Celebration.

Shirley organized for the workers on tomorrow a Christmas Gift Exchange Party. A simple social get together among the production team.

12 December 1993 (Sunday)

Christmas Gift Exchange Party today. The members in this party are Silvina, Jose, Carlos and wife, Luis, Lucy, Mirta, Sixto Torres.

Pedro and Raul weren't able to come. Vanderley was late he came in the afternoon he only gave the gift to Luis.

At night we invited the security guard Luis and wife, his brother Mario (working as Vaporizador) to have a simple dinner in the backyard.  The food is fried Bee Hun.

Caacupe day

Dec.08, 1993(Wednesday) Today is Caacupe day. A public holiday.


Mr. Quintana gave us a lift to the city.

We went to ciudad del este found only few shops opened in this important public holiday of the Paraguayan.
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We bought some Christmas gifts for workers and to our bonita.
We also bought a birthday gift to Alva Caballero the daughter of Caballero.

Halu-Halu

Dec.04, 1993 (Saturday) Christmas is coming. Time to start decorating the house.  We bought musical Christmas light and PVC flower vase.

Ole and Oscar came with my mail - subscribed books and magazines. I am using his office’s address.

He brought my advance of US$ 200 in guarani.



Dec.05, 1993 (Sunday) We stayed the whole day in the garden. Lunch time we eat in the garden together with Luis (the guard) and the wife.

At night we have our dinner in the garden together with Carlos and Vanderley.
After the meal, we made Halu-Halu. I scratch the ice while Shirley mixes the ingredient.

Halu-Halu is a Philippine ice desert similar to Malaysian’s ABC (Air Batu Campur).  The Ice scratchier was amount the few items we managed to squeeze into our luggages when we leave Hong Kong for Paraguay.

The production team

2nd December 1993 Thursday

Photo above : The production team that process raught-sawn to S4S for export to Taiwan.


We took Photograph in the line.
Shirley started organizing gift  exchange day.
In the afternoon we walk to mandiorka garden.

After a couple of days unsuccessful in placing a long distance calls home, Shirley wanted to try again today. At 7:00PM, happen that Mr. Quintana was in the office and he successfully help Shirley get through the phone.

She talked to her Nanay, Mng.Cora and Tino.