Dinner with the guard

February,15,1994(Tuesday) Eat dinner in the house of Luis(guard) together with us are Paul and Mr. Quintana. Quintana bought 4 cerveza.

February 18,94(Friday) Mr.Ole came and treat us lunch in Country club. At night we eat dinner in Caballeros house. Paul also cooked noodles.


February 21,1994 (Monday) Produced Guatambu cosinado.

We have a baby

Image above : The above image from scanner monitor showing date 11th February 1994 with indication 9 weeks 5 Days. The EDD (Estimated Delivery) indicated 11th September 1994

February 11, 1994 (Friday) Went to Km.41.In the hospital for check up. Nelson was the one who sent us to hospital.

Good news from Shirley. The doctor examines Shirley using scanner and from the monitor an image of a baby 2 months.

Next, Shirley goes to the next room to see a second doctor for further analysis and will get the result on Monday.

Her  weight is 53.7 kilos.


February 12, 1994 (Saturday) Went to km.41 again. Eat lamen soup and fried rice in Japanese restaurant. Buy something in supermercado and directly to km.36. to buy fish.

At night Paul cooked steamed fish.



February 14, 1994(Monday) Caballero sent us to Km.41 to get the result of Shirley Analysis.
The doctor asks Shirley to come back every month.

After hospital we eat in Japanese restaurant and order fried noodle and hot milk for  4100 Guaranies.

After eating we bought something in supermercado in km. 41.

Valentines day. I went to Carlos’s house and plucked 3 flowers from his front yard. His wife refuses to accept the money but I said this is gift money for their children.

Chinese New Year Eve 1994

1994 Chinese New Year Eve
9th February 1994 Wednesday

Feb.09, 94 (Wednesday) Mr. Ole and Marcos came at 12:00.We went to Country Club for  lunch Mr. Ole treat us.

Tonight is Chinese New Year Eve.  Paul suggested a dinner get together and inviting the Factory Manager and Production Manager.


So at night off we went across the border to Brazil in 2 cars to a Chinese restaurant in Foz.


In the group are Mr. Quintana, Raul Nunez and wife, Paul, and us.

There was an unhappy incident happen. Mr. Quintana's car came to a parking space near the Chinese restaurant (we follow his car) a small group of young men of 2 or 3 approached him and offer to take care of his car for a small fee while parking there because anything can happen to the car if no one around to keep an eye.  But Mr. Quintana decided that it was unnecessary and turns down the offer of these young men.

After the dinner we return to the car to discover a broken side mirror. The damagers were non other then the few young people who came earlier and now could not be seen around.

After dinner we return to Paraguay and drop by the casino to have a look.  The casino is just couple of kilometers from the border bridge. They all play except two of us.

By the time we reach home is almost 12:00 midnight



Feb.10, 1994 (Thursday) It's the first celebration day of Chinese New Year.

Marcos came to discuss about a batter report format.

While we are eating cracker in the office suddenly Mr.Ole came to get our Passport for applying visa to stay in Paraguay.

At night we celebrate again the Chinese New Year in Ciudad del este (restaurant). Together with us is Mr. Quintana.

Chinese New Year

February 01,1994 (TUESDAY)

Bought  1 kilo of ice cream from nearby shop and we just sit and eat  in the open space.


Feb.02, 1994(Wednesday) Went to mandiorka garden to buy some fresh corn but harvest is over, and they do not have any fresh corn anymore. But they have dried corn seed which we bought some for our chicken.

We also bought some mandiorka.

At night Mr. Quintana eat dinner in the house we had eaten noodles cooked by Paul. Mr. Quintana asked Carlos to buy soft drinks.