Finally I found some time to do a little translation, some things are difficult to translate because it is very related to Paraguay and you would only really understand it if you are Paraguayan or lived a big part of your life there.

You are Paraguayan if:

1. You sit on a cable chair in the sidewalk infront of your house or in the back of a pick up truck (in Paraguay is it very popular the cable chair, it is a metal chair with color cables rolled around the metal frame).

2-If you put your floppies on your hands to run faster.

3- If you play soccer with goalie that plays during the game and just protect the goal when its need it.

4- If you full your stomach with rosquita bread before lunch

5- If you wore stonewashed jeans (80’s style) vintage, it’s a blue jeans with white stains, snowy stains.

6- If you order 2 empanadas with just 1 bread and eat the few bread so it can last to be eaten with the 2 empanadas.

7- If you asked your hair dressed to cut your hair like “Ronaldo” or “Chilavert”

8- If when you see a yellow license plate you say: Yellow License plate, the luck is for me!

9-  If you delay to take your hand out when you are playing paper scissors rock.

10- If you say “ultimo boli cuna” (a guarani word that means: the last one is a wife of a bolivian) when you already started to run.

11- If you dont have anything left to see you say: Buenooosaire” Bueno means Ok…(it is usually to end a fraise when you dont have anything smart to say or if you have no more arguments to defend what you were saying)

12- If some time you make a mistake and instead of calling your teacher profe you called her mami (mommy)

13- If you believe that the more nourishing food is banana with milk

14- If you brushed your teeth with your finger when you slept over at a friends house and you didn’t bring your brush.

15- if you turn your pillow around to take advantage of the cold side.

16- If you rubbed your finger tips with lemon leaves so your parents would noticed that you have been smoking.

17- If you pretended you were sleeping in the bus while the bus controller was checking the tickets.

18- If you took your super great toy car apart to take its motor away to build a crappy fan.

19- If you were floppy with socks

20- If when you were young you played soccer with a sock ball or a green grapefruit.

21- If you hit the TV when its not working properly.

22- When your pc freeze you move fast the mouse to unblock it faster

23- If when your cell sounds you say control control control (meaning your girl friend or boy friend is wanting to control you to keep track of where you are) and if after laughing you say fiuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

24- If you dressed like you were ready to go to the Artic when outside its is just over 55 degrees

25. If you have a friend that works for the state that will faster up your paperwork.

26- If you know or have a relative that lives in USA, Argentina or Spain

27- If insults in guarani offends you more than in spanish

28- If you consider spending 20$ in beer is few but spening 0.20 cents in a empanada is too expensive.

29- If you rather have a chipa ( a paraguayan delicious corn bread ) than a filet mignon

30- If you call the radio station to say hi to your friend, mom, dad boy friend, etc that are on your side listening the radio with you at that moment (LOL)

31- If you drink your cocido (a mate drink) cold because you are (caigue means when you are too lazy) to heat it.

32- If in a pool, creek, river etc you did bath or swim with street clothes.

33- If you went to a birthday party and asked for the goody bag for your brother that couldn’t come, the cake for your mom and you also took several balloons. (more LOL)

34- If you broke (coquito or rosquita (which is a crispy dry bread) and dipped it into your cocido or latte and  your drink overflowed.

 

Some points I didnt translate because I don’t know how and because mostly are soccer related which I really dont get anyway.

If you have any questions please let me know, but as I said just people that grew up there will know what this is about and all is soo real…I cant stop smiling at most of the points.

I will try to blog more often, my life has been so crazy busy lately but I will try to improve. =)

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