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- Kayla
- Hello there! I have recently set out on an adventure to Ecuador as an exchange student. This will be the documentation that I can share with friends and family. Enjoy!
September 12, 2011
The first three weeks!
Hola, to all that are reading this, my first three weeks here have been a combination of excited, scared, nervous, and tranquila! I have had the pleasure of visiting with my family in our second house in the la valle ( or the valley 15 minutes outside cuenca.) Also trying the famous dish of cuenca (Cuy,) and no it does not taste like chicken. Then on to spanish camp in jambli, which is an island just off the coast of Machala. There i got to soak in the sun, sink my toes in warm sand ( major change from the cold weather of cuenca,) and sit and relax in a hammock talking to exchange students from all over the world. Then on to today, i started school at Catalinas, a private all girls catholic school ten minutes from my house, and there is where i felt the most lost. In the course of one day i moved three classes, and sat from 8:00-1:00 understanding nothing but a few words here and there. I made some friends, and we are going to the movies this friday to hangout , and to meet more people. I know it will be hard in the beginning, but i wish i could just jump to the part where at least i have some kind of clue what people are saying to me. Until my next adventure on my exchange
CHAO!!!
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Jambeli is not quite an island... but I expect you DID take a boat to get there... from the vacinity of the Yacht Club, perhaps? Puerto Bolivar? Past Simon Bolivar College?
ReplyDeleteGooglemaps is such a delightful aid... until I tried to make sense of Manabi. Then, they had it listed in an inland area with no roads and hundreds of feet from the nearest waterway! That can't be; not and jive with what you described.
Oh, well, GoogleMars is pretty cool, too; for looking at the buildings --quanset huts-- the scientific community says Isn't There: sunspots; "desert gas" pockets; weather balloons, you know, the usual stuff to explain away stuff which --unlike Roswell-- is right there on the survey in real time and zoomable! I can't quite see the welcome mat but it certainly is not any "natural" formation!
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