Things I'm Not Used To

            Well, here it is! My first blog of the 2013 summer I’m spending in Ecuador. I can tell you already that it has been challenging for me, and I think even more so than last year. Let me tell you why.

Sufficiency

Sufficiency

8/17/12

            I took a good glance at every person in my living room that night, in hopes of trying to freeze that moment in my memory so that I could stay there. I heard their words, but I didn’t listen; I just watched them and the clock as every minute brought me closer to the end of my time in Ecuador.

A Piece of My Heart

A Piece of My Heart

7/30/12

            So here it goes… my final thoughts about my trip to this beautiful country…

If you didn’t read the last two months worth of blogs, here is a summary of what I’ve done here [in bullet-point form]:

It's Never Enough

It’s Never Enough

7/29/12

            I didn’t miss much in updating these past few days. The day after Santiago got sick, I got sick… really sick. I’m still not completely over the sickness, which kind of sucks because we bought all this food to eat, and I haven’t been able to eat barely anything.

Things I'm Leaving Behind

Things I’m Leaving Behind

7/25/12 

            What an awesome weekend! On Friday we left for the beach at 12am (actually that’s technically Saturday but whatever!) and arrived at 6am. I must have been in like twenty different positions just trying to sleep the whole six hours. It was hard when there was loud Spanish music playing and a bunch of people talking, singing, and laughing. Those crazy Ecuadorians didn’t sleep until like 4am, and when we arrived, they were just as awake as before. However, the ride wasn’t AS bad as I thought it would be because we actually stopped for bathroom breaks every so often, and Santiago bought me Yuca chips at a rest stop. He knows they are my favorite. =)

Small Paradise

“Small Paradise”

7/20/12

            So I have quite a weekend/week planned ahead of me, and I’m pretty excited to spend my last days here doing some really awesome things. After I last wrote, Santiago and I went to the mall to see if we could go see a movie. Unfortunately, the only movie in English with Spanish subtitles was Spiderman… much later that night, so we had to pass on seeing a movie. Instead we went shopping and got some things I will need to last me through this next week. Then at night we watched “About a Boy”, which was interesting, to say the least! Buttttt enough about Monday because Tuesday was definitely my favorite day this week.