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[Link] | Hello everyone. A few things have happened on the trip so far. I´m in Mantañita right now, it´s a town in Ecuador on the mid-Southern coast. We´re leaving for somewhere else tomorrow that´s supposed to have apple pie, and then I´m going back to Quito for New Years. The plan though is to stay in hostals in Quito until Jan. 3 becuase for some reason the idea of even saying hi to my host parents before then is unbearable. I think three months is the maximum amount of time to live with people you who don´t have anything wrong with them per se but who you wouldn´t choose to live with.
Mantañita has the warmest ocean water I´ve ever swam in. And the sand is like flour. But we´re thinking the town is telling us to leave. There´ve been sand fleas (which can drive humans mad), jelly fish stings that made us think Carissa was going to die today, a malaria swamp by our hostal, and hens or roosters that hang out on a tree right outside our window and in the early morning hours make as much noise as possible. First of all, I didn´t know chickens spent time in trees, or even could get up them, and second, these chickens don´t make normal noises. It sounds like aliens or broken machinery, and it´s so fucking loud. I think they only climb the tree to be assholes. Tonight were going to kill one and hang it from a branch as an example.
The last few days I´ve been thinking up escape routes from Ecuador. For some reason all of a sudden I don´t want to be there. I want to be back in the US with people I like and living where I want. I think it´ll pass when I get back to Quito and start doing things again. Pretty soon I´m to live in an
Andes village for the next three months to do an internship that involves, hopefully, working with learning disorders at the english school and communication with a psychologist in Quito. I´m trying to work things out where I can stay in Quito over the weekends. The tranquility of a poor Andes village is great, but I think I´ll go crazy if I can´t get out on the weekends. The problem is I have to convince the school or the family to not make me pay for those days, becuase it´s 12 dollars per day which is ridiculous. OK bye for now.
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| Date: | December 28th, 2007 03:51 am (UTC) |
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it's just the W-curve, and don't fall victim to it's sweet nothings and necking....i'll spare you a definition because you may have heard one already. |
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