Quito

Hello everyone!

I am in Quito and it´s wonderful. I can´t get my camera to connect to this computer though, so photos will have to wait. Yesterday we had a great tour of the city and went to the middle of the world and a museum about the people of Ecuador. The group is also really great. Four guys and two girls (myself included). We went out last night together to a TexMex restaurant of all places, but it was really good and we got a few rounds of margaritas which were delicious. So far so good in terms of getting sick. I definitely felt the altitude immediately, the air just felt thicker and like I wasn´t getting as much air as I normally do, but I feel perfectly fine now. I ate some chicken yesterday for the first time in 6 years and it was rather tasty. I also had choclo, which is corn on the cob on steroids. The kernals were so big! And we had sopa de locro, a potato soup with aguacate y queso. Muy rico. Yyyy que mas... our director has pointed out that I seem to know the most spanish (yay!), so that´s good...

Tomorrow we leave to Cuenca after visiting a Guaysamun museum, he is the most famous artist out of Ecuador apparently. The few pieces of his work that I have seen are Dali-ish. My host mother´s name is Olga, she has two daughters, one of which has two little girls who I´m really excited to meet! I bet I´m going to learn a lot of spanish from them.

That´s all for now! We just finished a meeting and almuerzo is coming up, so I´m going to let Molly get a chance at the computer. Ps, lunch is the biggest meal of the day here, and it´s oooo so good. And we´re drinking a lot of juices because the tap isn´t very good here. So far I´ve had jugo de mora y jugo de tomate de arbol... and mango. Oh! I also had two exotic fruits yesterday, they were both spikey, one was deep red and the other yellow. I think the red one might have been liche. It tasted and looked like it.

Anyways! Love to all. Please feel free to leave comments and ask questions.