ECUADOR | Saturday, 16 Aug 2008 | Views [4337] | Comments [1]
If I have one strategy about living in Ecuador,
it is to accept all invitations I receive (that is, with the exception of the
invitations offered to me from men on the street between their wet smootching
noises and hisses). But in terms of ... Read more >
ECUADOR | Saturday, 16 Aug 2008 | Photo Gallery
The second week of my first vacation
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ECUADOR | Saturday, 16 Aug 2008 | Photo Gallery
We joke Julian, who is 1, is my novio. All I know is that he is really cute!
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ECUADOR | Friday, 15 Aug 2008 | Photo Gallery
paseos, students, madrinas
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ECUADOR | Friday, 15 Aug 2008 | Photo Gallery
tranquidad to the max
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ECUADOR | Thursday, 14 Aug 2008 | Photo Gallery
Natty and Jake visit!
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ECUADOR | Tuesday, 3 Jun 2008 | Views [2547] | Comments [3]
My mother always says that she did not eat cuy when my parents were in Ecuador because my father wouldn’t let her. Since my father isn’t anyone to allow my mother to do anything, this was always said in jest. I do not know the real extent ... Read more >
ECUADOR | Tuesday, 3 Jun 2008 | Views [937]
Kat had an unexpected four day weekend. That is to say, her expected three day weekend turned into one of four days when she discovered that Thursday was an exclusive holiday for the employees of the University where she teaches – meaning it not ... Read more >
ECUADOR | Tuesday, 3 Jun 2008 | Views [709]
Friday May 2, 2008 I practiced my lie on the way home tonight. Walking the three blocks up the winding Lorezo Piedra, around the piles of crumbled stone from construction projects I never see being worked on, and past the green graffiti ... Read more >
ECUADOR | Friday, 16 May 2008 | Photo Gallery
Cuenca, in all its glory
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ECUADOR | Friday, 16 May 2008 | Photo Gallery
I went to Guayaquil, Ecuador's largest city for one night, in order to celebrate fellow vol Shelby's b-day. Much dancing ensued.
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ECUADOR | Friday, 16 May 2008 | Photo Gallery
My weekend trip to the pueblocito of Jima, and my first experience eating Cuy (guinea pig, yum yum!)
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ECUADOR | Tuesday, 22 Apr 2008 | Photo Gallery
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ECUADOR | Tuesday, 15 Apr 2008 | Views [1630] | Comments [1]
Shock may be too strong of a word, (I think amusement is more appropriate), but I have found one cultural difference which stands out to me – if only in its frequency. Indeed, I generally think of hot dogs as one of the few typical North American ... Read more >
ECUADOR | Friday, 11 Apr 2008 | Views [766] | Comments [1]
We were all waiting in the conference room of the Hotel Embassy, immediately after our session about some classically Ecuadorian cultural quarks. In addition to the warning that men would be pressured to drink a lot, and that there are many Quichaua ... Read more >
ECUADOR | Thursday, 10 Apr 2008 | Views [895] | Comments [1]
A bubble orientation was, for sure. We had classes all day every day, commencing with Spanish classes at 7 in the morning, and eventually ending at the conclusion of our practice teaching at SECAP Sur in Quito at 8 in the evening. Besides ... Read more >
ECUADOR | Saturday, 5 Apr 2008 | Photo Gallery
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ECUADOR | Saturday, 5 Apr 2008 | Views [570]
I received
numerous materials before my departure about the difficult process of adjusting
to a new culture – “this is different, that is really different, you’ll
probably make this mistake, you’ll definitely interpret that wrong . . ... Read more >
ECUADOR | Saturday, 5 Apr 2008 | Views [781]
For something
that had been a plan for 10 months, the fact that I was actually leaving for Ecuador
was a surprise, something that sort of snuck up on me. So the night before my flight to Quito, I found myself
confused ... Read more >
