Sam Gable - Pusulli
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So the internship's still cool. I get to go in a car all around Quito doing investigations into the families and schools of kids that used to be at the center. And because they're generally from poor areas, I get to see parts of Quito that gringos never get to, like the north ghetto that is so ghetto that the reason people live there is because 15 years ago they invaded the land, cut down the forest, and build their own neighborhoods out of clay houses and dirt streets. Wow! They call it 'la invasion.' When you drive into Quito from the north you see it as a mass of gray square houses because no one can afford to paint them or care. It's one of the ganglands of Quito, and today I was supposed to go there to interrogate a married couple about their lives. The mom is schizophrenic and thinks the world is the devil so she locked her kids in the house for a month and barely fed them, which is why they got taken to the center, and the dad is too alcoholic to be useful. So I was supposed to ask them things like, 'So are you drinking? What are you doing to stop?' and to the mom 'Are you taking your meds, are you still acting all crazy?' But I didn't get to. This internship is helping me not be intimidated by anything.
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I haven't been commenting much, but hearing about your trip has been really interesting. And a lot more interesting than the majority of folks' working/educational trips to South America. What you notice tends to be interesting.
Anyhow, righteous. |
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