1 pair of shoes - 1 red 1 blue

April 23,1994 (Saturday
Went to ciudad del este. We bought a singer sewing machine from OHARA SHOP at  500,000 Guaranies.

April 24,1994 (Sunday) The first item Shirley made with the sawing machine is  curtain for our room.

I  painted the 4 chairs. At night we had  Japanese noodle, boiled banana and corn.

April 25,1994 (Monday) Went to factory of Carlos Sanavia to inspect the Grapia for sending to Taiwan together with us is Hugo Vera (worker of head cutting machine ).

On the way home I asked Carlos Sanavia  to stop at the road side for a while Hugo and I  went down the car to see the a group congregated for faith heeling

Lucy cooked chicken with curry sauce.


April 27, 1994 (Wednesday)
Shirley said the baby kicked her for 4 times while sitting in the office.

Replied a fax from Howard Chai. Finished the fax at 6:00 and Shirley sent to Mr. ole to refax to Taiwan.

April 28,1994 (Thursday)

A worker, Cabana, gave Shirley Mandarin oranges.


April 30 1994 (Saturday) Went to ciudad del este  buy shoes 1 pair rubber shoes for me and 2 pairs of shoes for Shirley color red and blue.

And a stop watch for Luis Cuevas (worker in the factory).

We have lunch at the food stall of a Chinese deaf couple.  Both husband and wife are deaf. The husband is the cook while the wife running the food stall.  There are several Chinese food stall here. Most of customer are Chinese.


After reaching home at around 3:00 took a bus again to Km.20 to attend the Party of Macosur workers.


We only sat there for the last 45 minutes. Shirley may be interested but the party is too massy and noisy for me.

They at first want to held the party in the factory compound but the manager suggested they hold the party else where. Previously they had the party in the factory but always ended the party with the big mass.

Rain Rain Rain

April 06, 1994 (Wednesday) At 7:30 A.M was raining and power failure as well so the machine stopped.

Today is Torres birthday

April 07, 1994 (Thursday) Went to Ciudad to book ticket going to Asuncion. The bus is 12:00 midnight tonight and comes back tomorrow. Asuncion office earlier called me to Asuncion to collect the result of our Analysis. The health department will only release the health report directly to the person no a third person. So I have to collect personally myself.


April 08, 1994 (Friday) Return home by 1:30PM Bus from Asuncion arrived Macosur at 6:00 P.M.
Bought  pasalubong for Shirley assorted biscuits from Tiyo Lucas restaurant.



April 09, 1994 (Saturday) went to ciudad del este.

April 10,1994 (Sunday Painted chair the color green . The paint is not enough.


April 11, 1994 (Monday) Went to Km. 41 for check up. Doctor Tanaka did not scanne the baby today.

Walk over to Japanese restaurant to eat lunch soup noodle and fried noodle.

While waiting for the bus and Mr. Quintana happen to come to have lunch at the Japanese Restaurant. We can wait for him to follow his car home.


April 12, 1994 (Tuesday) Jose and other workers cleaned the big warehouse room beside my office for dining hall.

At 2:00 P.M we went to Timberland to inspect the S4S for send to Taiwan. The quality is good.

The ready bundled pallet opened and we started inspection. The 1st class is more than the 2nd class. The c class only few.


Went to km.16 house of Ana and Paiva. Ana made Coffee milk for me. After that accompanied us to buy Shirley pregnant clothes.


April 13, 1994 (Wednesday) raining for the whole morning.



April 14, 1994 (Thursday) Ole came at 3:45 and brought my  500 US$ in Guarani(947500) salary.

Quintana gone to Asuncion at 1:45 P.M.


April 15,1994 (Friday) Produced Guatambu At around 10:30 A.M no power (light) until 3:45.

The workers cleared the factory surroundings.

Shirley received letter from home. Jeans graduation was in March 22.

Bought 2 cases of 1 liter soft drinks for the workers.



April 16, 1994 (Saturday) Went to ciudad. Eat in the Tokyo restaurant. We ate mix food of Chinese.

We wanted to buy Sewing Machine but they do not have English Catalogue.

I went alone to Post office to collect mails while Shirley  went Centro for shopping.
We met in Supermercado.

We arrived in Macosur 6:00 P.M It is already dark. Sometime we would come back late from the city like today, but never later then that.


April 17, 1994 (Sunday)

 A raining day until 4:30PM.

Rosie is pregnant

April 4 1994 (Monday) Working day started after Easter Holiday.


April 05, 1994 (Tuesday) Went to Caballero shop and asked Caballero to find a maid for us. There we sat and drank Coca cola and also ate bread.

Cooked chicken adobo and gave the chicken bone to Rosie (dog) because she is pregnant.

 Lorenies birthday today.

Making chairs

April 1,1994 (Friday) Make my weekly report.  I prepare weekly report on each Friday afternoon. Ready by end of the day for Shirley to fax to Asuncion. With that we completed another week of work. The next day is Saturday week end start.

While Shirley was cleaning the house enjoying music from the radio, wife of Luis came with chipa.

Today onward, Christian do not eat meat. We have instant noodle instead. Shirley gave one pack also to the wife of Luis to cook noodle for Luis.

Luis got us some orange. We eat a lot of oranges in Paraguay.

 Afternoon, I continued making chairs until night.

At night cooking gas ran out. Shirley went to Caballero (Night) to buy gas for cooking.


April 2, 1994 (Saturday) I went alone to Ciudad del este to buy screw, and a blower for Shirley, and
medicine of Aderman (Antimicotico).

Then   to Chinese Restaurant and bought food take out for two.


Reach home at 1: 45 P.M After lunch went over to office to continue the chair.  I made the chairs outside my office.



April 03, 1994 (Sunday) 10:00am continue making the chairs.