I have been so bad a blogging!! Catch up time!

Hola!!!

I wrote a long blog about a week ago but because of the sketch internet connection, it failed to post. I will try to be brief with my update....

As far as day to day life goes I normally get up and go to school, where we are in school from 8:30 until 4 pm...kind of intense I must say. We are learning about the economic history of Ecuador, the cultural history of Ecuador and development theories. We then have a Spanish class. It normally is a lot of information everyday, so I often forget some of it sadly. We have an hour and a half lunch when we go and get lunch somewhere around the school. Typical Ecuadorian food is a lot of rice, chicken and soup. It is incredibly cheap too, an entire meal is normally 1,60 ish. But, we are in a big city so we have eaten gyros, Chinese food, pizza, hamburgers with eggs on top of them (that was interesting). Fritdada (friend pig) is really common too.

I still have an amazing host family. Last Friday night my friends met up at my house before we went out and my parents hung out with us. We drank wine and listened to music. The best part of the whole event was we asked them to teach us how to salsa dance and within seconds music as blaring, furniture was moved and we were dancing the night away. They were so encouraging and fun...they have only been married for two years and you can see the freshness in their relationship as they taught us how to dance by dancing together.

I just a moment ago had my 'interview' with our program director about our future internships. It turns out I most likely will be in an indigenous community just outside of Tena, Ecuador (near the rainforest). I am so so so excited! She suggested rural (and i requested rural) beause I have a larger chance to develop a theatre program (or anything along those lines) than if I was in an urban community where everything is pretty set in stone. I am so flippin excited to see if this turns out...I think I will be the first intern in this community, and so there is a lot of freedom and a lot of nerves as well!! Once it is solitified I will write!!

Thanks for reading, things are great and I hope that things are great at home too!

~Julia~