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3 Chords to the Hum of the Singer's Needle

Posted by Brienne Thomson on Friday, March 6, 2015, In : Paraguay 
Strummin’ Round 1 ► 



► Jeremy Haber and my “wild” Peace Corps Paraguay talent show ditty proved to be a more amusing juxtaposition in the courtyard of a family’s house/tailor shop in Itá, Paraguay.

Press play for a giggle ➸ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynVUTM-59rE&feature=youtu.be



► The genius seamstress, Tati, was the homestay host of Jeremy during training who, through a little Community Economic Development volunteer needs-assessing and logo forwarding, became Peace C...
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Neighborhood Quest to Wring the Worm

Posted by Brienne Thomson on Tuesday, February 17, 2015, In : Paraguay 

Paraguay’s Neglected are my Neighbors

(The contents of this website are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. government or the Peace Corps. All quotes are either in Spanish or are my translations.)

▷ Click here for a better view of the photos 

I was feeling a little weak today and decided to walk-splore instead of run. Just a kilometer or so from my little abode, on the same hillside, the infrastructure stops. The cobblestone roads turn into rutted trails an...


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An Update on Perspectives-n-Plans in Paraguay: Peace Corps Volunteer Reporting Form

Posted by Brienne Thomson on Saturday, August 30, 2014, In : Paraguay 

(The contents of this website are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. government or the Peace Corps.)

This is my way of taking action to make my words speak a little louder. My method is transparency in what I am doing and reporting about my service to the Peace Corps, which is a branch of the U.S. government.

TO CLARIFY: The Peace Corps is a non-partisan agency within the executive branch of the U.S. government. It has presidentially appointed directors, is supervised...


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The Peace Corps Asked, I Indulged

Posted by Brienne Thomson on Tuesday, April 1, 2014, In : Paraguay 

(The contents of this website are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. government or the Peace Corps.)

What I Reported to the Peace Corps: Volunteer Reporting Form

As opposed to the government in this freedom of the press suppressed Paraguayan oligopoly, I want to make my inter-cultural experiences, efforts and observations transparent. Minus the details of my community contact information and the code boxes checked for the Peace Corps’ statistics compiling, such as; ...


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Merry “General Strike” Day

Posted by Brienne Thomson on Wednesday, March 26, 2014, In : Paraguay 

(The contents of this website are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. government or the Peace Corps.)

Today marks 20 years of a “general” strike here in Paraguay, mainly led by union leaders rallying the teachers and farmers, and human rights groups and students rallying themselves. The sad thing is that a lot of the striking working-class posse 
aren't thoroughly informed as to why they’re shutting down traffic, but instigated to participate based on propaganda fe...


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Paraguay’s Moto Conundrum: Death Rate Rising

Posted by Brienne Thomson on Monday, August 19, 2013, In : Paraguay 
(The contents of this website are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. government or the Peace Corps.)

An underage motorcyclist out for a Sunday evening cruise around town with the hordes of other showoffs drove into the side of my host mother’s car. By the time I arrived at the scene, which was just in front of the house, one of the cops was sharing a cool drink of tereré with two of the ‘20-something’ daughters of the family and their friends, and another was ye...

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[Scene 2] Pre-Service Regiment

Posted by Brienne Thomson on Monday, July 15, 2013, In : Paraguay 
(The contents of this website are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. government or the Peace Corps.)

The Peace Corps has us on a tight leash from when I wake up at 6:00am until the collective drops me off in Itá (my homestay community) at 6:00pm. It’s dark. I’m tired. I need to study my Guaraní, I need to run.


The weather is unpredictable to say the least. Monday can have a high of 52 and Wednesday 83. When it’s cold, there’s no escaping it. The metal window f...

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[The Curtain Rises]

Posted by Brienne Thomson on Tuesday, June 25, 2013, In : Paraguay 

(The contents of this website are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. government or the Peace Corps.)

I woke up one morning, Thursday, the 30th of May, 2013, to be exact, and I was in Asunción, Paraguay. 

[Lights intensify like dawn]

And while I’m not trying to insinuate some surprise international abduction, I am trying to convey the, “I haven’t absorbed this” feeling you get when the velocity of life is whirling too fast too land … despite, however, the fact ...


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