For my first 4th of July in Ecuador, I went to a park and grilled out with some fellow volunteers. Good times…no fireworks, but we grilled out in a crowded park…almost like home!
The place I will be moving into…as long as all goes well…is beautiful! Not sure how I got so lucky on this apartment. I can’t wait to move! And then I only have a month until my mom comes followed by Steve!
My future home!
School is officially out this week in the town of Asuncion. My host sister graduates from high school today and my family is having a graduation party for her tomorrow. I will probably be way underdressed…again.
My desire to live alone is growing everyday. And the closer it gets, the more I dislike their food, ways of cleaning, “time” and lack thereof, living with my counterpart, and constant asking to borrow my cell phone and computer…only two weeks!!
This is a photo of me on Chimborazo...just about as high as you can drive.
I will fill the next couple weeks with surveys, shopping for stuff for my new home :), moving, building furniture, and preparing for visitors!
So a few funny things.
1. After telling me about the serious problems of diabetes and high blood pressure in the area…my counterpart put salt in is Coca Cola.
2. Yesterday at the internet café a traditionally dressed indigenous woman spent all her time looking up Justin Bieber.
3. While waiting to pay for my new refrigerator and stove, two men and a woman came into the store and told one of the guys working there to give them all the money they had. The worker told them that they hadn’t sold anything that day and that they didn’t have access to the safe. They left and I never even noticed what was happening until the people working there started talking about it. If only they asked the gringa, I was holding $240 in my hand.
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So being the underestimated gringa .....not so bad for a change,eh?
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