Sooo I've been trying to make a list of things that I love so I don't have to write for days on end. As of week one, here are a few of my cosas favoritas:
- Living in a huge city that’s surrounded by mountains
- Most of the mountains are actually volcanoes
- My Ecuadorian cell phone is just like my Dominican gigapet phone… it’s an Alcatel phone sponsored by Claro which means nothing to anyone but my favorite ISA kids
- The poster on the door to my room is of the three stooges golfing and says “golf with friends”
- My host fam has two huskies (who even knew they had huskies in South America..)
- Eating soup for every lunch and dinner
- Lunch (almuerzo) costs between $1.50 and $3 for soup, rice, chicken/fish, vegetables, and a dessert
- I’m taking a Spanish class and there are only three of us so we get to learn exactly what we need to
- My WT director is awesome and was a WT volunteer in Cuenca, Ecuador about ten years ago and married an Ecuadorian soccer player and has two ecuakids
- The weather is like fall in Minnesota without the rainy days
- I’m not nervous to speak Spanish and I can understand everything and it’s already hard to switch back to English.. I love it and can’t wait to only speak Spanish in Portoviejo
- Everyone is a fabulous dancer and there are salsa clubs all over the place
- Private salsa lessons cost $6 an hour and I’m going to be the best rubia salsa dancer by the time I leave
- My host brother explained what an owl was by explaining that it is Harry Potter’s pet
- My host brother has an Avril Lavigne poster in his room but also loves all the same American music I do
- Being called Kreeesta
- There’s way less traffic and cat calling than I expected
- Ecuadorian Spanish uses a lot of Quichua (indigenous language) for expressions so I’m learning a lot of new words (a-cha-chay is the same as saying brrr when you’re cold)
- People really are playing soccer all the time
- Everyone (still) thinks Minnesota is right next to Chicago
- I’ve seen at least four Ecuadorian guys who are taller than me so there is hope
- I couldn’t imagine being anywhere else in the entire world right now
No comments:
Post a Comment