Weekends in Paraguay

Oct.02 1993(SATURDAY) 2nd Weekend in Paraguay

Its Saturday again. This is our 2^nd Saturday in Paraguay.  The factory is a 5 days week working system.

Last weekend we went down to Ciudad del Este city for the first time with colleagues in company car.

This weekend, that is Today, Shirley and I decided to venture ourselves by public bus to the city.

There is no shortage of public transport as Macosur factory is just beside the highway, a highway linking the capital city Asuncion with Ciudad del Este. Each day we see vehicle from container carriers to buses and taxi passing by our quarter.

We walk and walk around the city until we reached the restaurant of Japanese for lunch.

We return home by bus around 5:00P.M.

7:30 P.M Paul announce he will give everyone a dinner so off we went to the city again.

In the group of 9 in 2 cars are Mr.  & Mrs. Quintana, Mr. & Mrs. Caballero, Raul (the technician) and a visitor of Mr. Quintana.

Oct.03, 1993 (SUNDAY) This afternoon both of us went to the lake with the 2 dogs.  I carefully put the water plants I bought yesterday into the pond with the hope the plants will grow and multiply.

Oct 09,1993 (Saturday) 3^rd Saturday in Paraguay.

I need a post office box for mails. The main thing to do this weekend to Ciudad del Este is to obtain a Post Office box.

Previous week we already enquired the direction to the post office.  But unsure the exact location, we took a taxi and conviently located the post office.

Shirley already has  6 letters to mail Hong Kong and Philippines postages cost 2990 guarani.

Renting a post box is easy.  Almost immediately the Post Master gave me a post box  51500 Guaranies.

At around 2:00 we bought silver heart with our name from a street craftman. The craft cost 3,000 but we gave him 5,000.

We stroll and stroll the city and by 3:00PM we happen to entered a Taiwanese mini supermarkets where I make acquentent with the middle age owner.

To day we came to the city  also with hope of  stumple upon the shop of the 3 sisters we met in the flight. When we first met 3 weeks ago they only told that parent has a shop in this city but left behind no address and telephone.

Now since this supermarket owner also from Taiwan he might happen to know the who and who from Taiwan. and enquire where he know about any one has 3 daughter arrived recently and shown him the piece of paper with the 3 names.

To my great surprise, he knows them and simutenousely picked up the phone and start talking :

 “………. Your friends are in my shops now……… you come over now……..”

Shirley wanted to buy a pencil case and a stool from their shop.

The mother gave them as gift to Shirley.

We waited for  30 minutes for a bus to return home.