All These Things That I Have Done

-Went rock climbing in the country, a town called Conocoto. It was very beautiful and I took a lot of pictures and re discovered my love of rock climbing/ physical challenge / heights/ nature

-avoided eating cuy. But its just a matter of time.

-lost my cell phone. Whoops. Jimmy just got me a new one. Thanks!

-Got kicked out of my Translation Spanish class. Via note at the end of a homework. Classay.

-Found a new Spanish class that’s actually way better.

-Found a new bus route to school that's much faster but more crowdede

- Kept flossing

-Went to a state-run facility for young people with disabilities. It was very amazing. Most of these people were abandonded by ther parents or just found in the street. They were between like 10 and 25. Many had cerebal pasly, mental retardation, Downs syndrome, or had been in traffic accidents. They were very heavily medicated, but still quite independent and functioning, despite really big disabilites. We played witht them and sang. I helped one boy in a wheel chair get out, and carried him around to slides and swings. I sat with one woman while she washed dishes. She told me about how her left side didn’t work very well but she worked hard. I found out later that she had been raped several times and had two children. Woah. I think I might be an occupational therapist. I just want to help people be able to move the way they want

-still have a zillion infected mosquito bites.

-saw John Dugas! And his cool wife! Yeah! I hung out with his wife, Larissa, at that ceremony thing before I got drunk at school. Yeah!

-Learned that “you speak such good Spanish” is most often a pick up line.

-Other pick up lines attempted “Let’s have relations!” “you should move here. You could get married,” and my favorite, just a grunt.

-Went to the old historic center at night, listened to live music, drank canelazo, ate empenadas.

-watched a lot of Ecuadorian Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? where you only win 50,000. And the questions are real stumpers like ¨Green consists of what two colors?¨