Student with mate (mar-tay) during ten minute break. They carry thermoses and top up their mate container with hot water. 
This student could not believe that I wanted a photo of a water container so I took another photo with him beside the water container and that seemed to make more sense to him. I took the photo because there are taps for both hot and cold water. Why hot water? To fill up the thermoses for mate, of course.
The doors of both schools I go to are very narrow (angosto) although, this one can open up all three parts, of course. However, when I am wearing my back pack, I find that I am wider (ancho) than the doorway. It is an interesting manoeuvre to fit through the door without taking off my backpack. It is best approached sideways with a sucked in tummy.
Man on motorbike overtaking my taxi on my way home to lunch. I wish I had my camera ready when I saw, yesteray, a man steering a motorbike with his right hand, and with his left hand, he was holding a the handle bar of a riderless pushbike which was rolling along beside him, parallel to his bike. 
A fairly ubiquitas sign... see if you can work out what it is saying.
This is, of course, yours truly in one of the main shopping streets of Parana. There's no sign of anyone because everything has closed for the siesta. 
This is one of the 11 English language beginners I took in a class for two hours last night. They were talking in English and Spanish to my students in New Zealand. ¡The miracle of Skype!
Spot the graffiti. There does not appear to be ´tagging´ as such, but there are lots of slogans, most of which I do not understand.
I am possibly doing something wrong, but it is extremely difficult to line up photos and text on a blog. I will need to get help from my ICT experts in my class (*waves to Huia 1 - Great to see you on Skype*) who seem to know everything that I need to know but can´t do.
I have just unleashed upon my host family and one adult-learners class.... Vegemite (apologies to all those Marmite afficionados- it was as case of what was available at the time). In limited Spanish, I explained that the sensation/impact they were having was as near an equivalent to most NZers´reaction to their first try of mate. Gotta love the truly intercultural experience... ¨I´ll show you mine if you show me yours.... ¨
Tomorrow night (Wednesday time here) I am going to Iguazu Falls.... near the former-home-for-a-month-in-2007 of Viv, my trail-blazing amiga who has been here and done that. I am hoping to meet up with her AFS host, Monica, but access to internet and communication could be random. It may be a case of ¨so near yet so far¨ if we don´t manage a rendezvous. I am waiting to hear back from her before I go. Similarly, I may not be able to get near a computer to report in with updates of my exploits.
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