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Carnaval
so here they celebrate the same carnival as brazil, on feb 1-3. starting in about the middle of december, they start to throw water balloons at you if you are walking in the street. this greatly affected me as i dont have a car and walk everywhere!! so...
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Friday, February 01, 2008
yunguilla with amigos
today i went to yunguilla for the day with my friends. we took a provincial bus there for $1.50 for about an hour drive, and once we were there, we explored the town, hitchiked to the next town and ate a delicious lunch! i was sunburnt and we came home...
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Friday, January 25, 2008
Guayaquil
went to guayaquil the day after my birthday. i went to my birthday party and came home around 330am, and then i had to have all of my stuff packed to change families and bring my suitcases to my next family at 830am! i didnt realize how much stuff i h...
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Sunday, January 20, 2008
6 de enero (jan 6)
January 6 in ecuador is a special day. Since they arent allowed to celebrate halloween on october 31 because its flags day, they sort of celebrate it on jan 6! the tradition is that the guys dress up as girls, and the girls dress up as whatever they wi...
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Sunday, January 06, 2008
Año nuevo! (new years)
en el ecuador, la fiesta de año viejo es una antigua tradición en la que simbólicamente se queman los fracasos, penas y enojos del año pasado para dar la bienvenida a las esperanzas y resoluciones del año que entra. en el ú...
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Tuesday, January 01, 2008
widow days!
On dec. 31, the tradition here in cuenca ecuador is that anyone who had a death in the family to dress up as a widow and go on the streets so beg for cars. i guess that was a logn time ago..and the money that people gave them was for the comign year so...
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Monday, December 31, 2007
Gifts for the children
Living in Ecuador, i felt i needed to share the christmas spirtit a little bit. i see all of these children every day on the street, and i have been told if i am going to talk to them, not to mention too much about christmas to them. here, christmas is...
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Friday, December 28, 2007
cajas
so on christmas morning i woke up and we drove up to the mountains called the cajas. it was made into a national park may 11, 1997. its altitude is 9843 - 11483.5 feet!! Esta gran cantidad de lagunas regula y conserva a los riachuelos de la zona a ...
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Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Pase del niño
Here in cuenca, pase del niño is a HUGE deal. Pase Del Nino is a form of Christmas pageant that is one of the biggest celebrations of the year in Ecuador. It is believed that Pase Del Nino Viajero started in Ecuador around the 1960s when a Christ ...
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Monday, December 24, 2007
Haciendo tortas para navidad- christmas baking!
I think part of the reason i was homesick was because there is no sweets for christmas here! i missed butter tarts so much..so i decided to bake for my family. when i told them i was going to christmas bake for them, they kind of gave me a weird look.....
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Saturday, December 22, 2007
Cambio
I died my hair!! woo!! haha, i didnt really want to, but i am sick of all of the sexual comments in the streets and the blonde hair was horrible because it attracted so much attention! i hope now it will be better. it has gotten so bad that guys were f...
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Friday, December 21, 2007
Pase de niño a mi escuela especial
Today, Tuesday Dec. 18 was pase de niño at the school i was volunteering and teaching at. pase de niño is a Huge thing in my city. it is where everyone dresses up as people from the bible and the like..re act the birth of jesus. it is only ar...
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Quito!!!
So they woke us up at 6am...and thinking ¨well i can just sleep in the bus...to where ever we are going..¨ ...wrong. we had to hike up to the top of this mountain to help the comunity plant trees!! there was about 130 exchange students, and w...
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Saturday, December 15, 2007
Volunteering at a school
After the daycare, i decided i wanted to volunteer more. i asked my host mama and she said she knew a place where i could volunteer. the next day i went to a school with students with special needs. i toured around, and was placed in a classroom with s...
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Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Volunteer work at the guardia
during exams at my school, all of the exchange students had vacations! we dont write the exams, so we had about a week and a half off! it was great. most of the exchange students slept until lunch time, and then went shopping in the afternoons and part...
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Monday, December 03, 2007
Ingapirca, Ecuador
On Saturday, December 1, i went to ingapirca with my friend sanami, and two ecuadorian guys we are friends with. they invited to take us there in their car to visit the place for the day. they were so excited to take us, so we thought we would go!! we ...
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Saturday, December 01, 2007
More Pictures Of The Beach
more pictures from the beach from a different camera.....
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Random Pictures
More pictures from halloween, sushi night...ect. ...
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Daddy Yankee Concert
I saw DADDY YANKEE!! it was an amazing concert. i was in golden box, which was the closest section to him! general viewing is very dangerous at reggaeton concerts. at times there is shoot ups and stuff...and a lot of stabbings. but i was in the good se...
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Friday, November 16, 2007
Camila and Reik Concert
I went to the camila and reik concert back in october. i just got the pictures now because all my pictures from my camera were erased...and my friend sent me a bunch! the concert was so good! i didnt understand a lot, but theres a few songs i know and ...
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Saturday, November 10, 2007
Manabi 2007!
Finally my beach entry! i went on a rotary trip from wednesday, october 17- sunday october 21! it was a lot of fun and we saw so much! We left cuenca at 7am and all of the exchange students from cuenca took a bus to puerta viejo. we made two pit stops ...
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Friday, November 09, 2007
Halloween, Fiestas de Cuenca..Ect
I havent written in so long! sorry. i went on my trip to the beach but allll of my pictures on my camera got deleted..so i lost about 450 pictures of the beach. my camera is almost like new now! im trying to get some pictures from some friends, so hope...
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Monday, November 05, 2007
Comando Tiburon!
The first weekend in november was fiestas de cuenca. fiestas de cuenca are amazing! every night there is about 10 different HUGE partied to choose from. i went out to a halloween party on the wednesday, oct 31 and to a comando tiburon concert on the fr...
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Friday, November 02, 2007
Flag Day
October 31 is celebrated as flag day, not halloween. the president of ecuador says if you dont celebrate flag day and choose to celebrate halloween you will no longer be a citizen of ecuador. im not sure if he makes youmove to another country or what.....
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Tuesday, October 16
Wow! time is just flying by. i cant believe it. it seems like i just arrived last week! i cant believe its already the middle of october! tomorrow im going on my first rotary trip to the beach!! about 150 exchange students from all of ecuador are meeti...
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007
October 10
This week has been pretty good! I am going to a concert tomorrow night...camila and reik. im so excited, my first spanish concert! my brother´s song is number one in quito and guayaquil!! its amazing...his song beat others by daddy yankee, brittan...
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007
October 5
This weeks been pretty good. im back in dance class. mon-wed we danced salsa...marengae, tengo, cha cha cha...and thursday..we danced reggaeton!! it was great. every exchange student except 3 are in the class...so my class has something like 17 exchang...
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Friday, October 05, 2007
Sugar Cane
heyy! this was supposed to be written awhile ago. i went either last sunday or the one before to yunguilla. there, we went to a family friends house and had lunch and were visiting and such. it was so hot, and i forgot sunscreen! i had a very rushed mo...
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Sunday, September 30, 2007
El Colegio Alborada
School!! here, we call highschool college. so, i am officially a college girl! at first, i tried to pay attention...but realized its almost imposible to understand these teachers. they all talk SO fast, and wow...one day i will! my biology teacher talk...
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007
September
Well, im sure you have seen the adorable pictures of my baby lop eared bunny. i loved her so much. everyday i took her to the park so she could run, and when i whistled, she came to me. i rescued her from the faire de libre, a market that sells everyt...
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Saturday, September 22, 2007
turi
another day at school. usually you sleep after you eat when you come home from school, but my mama works at 4 so she had to take me to the mall early. we were supposed to meet at 4 at the mall, but...by the time everyone showed up it was almost 5 30. w...
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Wednesday, September 05, 2007
party
I have been trying to keep up with the latin culture of being a teenager. its so exhausting! on tuesday i wake up at 6am to go to school. the bus picks me up at...well ecuadorian time between 7 20 and 7 35...depending on the day. so i go to school all ...
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Cooking
I finally cooked my family a meal! it was not as easy as i thought it would be. first, i needed to find recipes to cook, then i had to translate the recipes to spanish, and then go look for the food in the market. they dont have so many things that i e...
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Saturday, September 01, 2007
PEPITA
I bought a bunny!!! She is so cute. im not sure if she really is a girl...but i call her a girl. her nickname is Pepe...and thats a boys name. so her name can go either way if we do find out shes a boy! I first went to the pet store here to find a cute...
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Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Weekend in Yunguilla
I spent the weekend in a town called yunguilla. it was about a 2 hour bus ride, and one hour driving in a car. i made two trips there, i went for an overnight trip with the friends of my host brother who went on his exchange, and another on sunday just...
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Saturday, August 25, 2007
cuenca market
this morning when i woke up, i decided to go for a walk. my brother gave me directions to the market, as it looked really neat there. i got ready and walked there, it was only about a 10 minute walk. i walked through many shoe stores..clothing stores, ...
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
Daytime
Today i went to the city again. i love the city square. its my favorite, theres so many neat things happening there. i went again with my brother david. we went to the bank and to a few stores. after we went to the center of the city and i bought 11 re...
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007
day trip
Today, Sunday August 19 i woke up to my mama and papa at church. when they came home, they said in spanish ¨get ready to go see a small town!¨ i think thats what they said...hahaha, so i grabbed my camera and off we went. the first town we we...
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Sunday, August 19, 2007
vamos el centro
This is my house. Theres a pciture of my bedroom, kitchen, dining room, living room and my front yard. haha, the houses here are very tiny and EVERY house or store has a 10 foot wall or fence around it. some are electric for extra secutiry. its to keep...
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Saturday, August 18, 2007
First Night
LAst night was my first night in cuenca. of course, i was very tired. everyone left to go to different meetings and such, and my brother was going to pick me up at 6 30 to go to meet some friends. being so tired, i fell asleep. when everyone came home,...
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Friday, August 17, 2007
Arrival
I have unpacked! my family picked me up at the airport and we all came home and had lunch. lunch was potatoe soup, sooo good, then...some white fish, corn on the cob, baby corns or something, this salsa stuff...like chunky salsa. (wait. the tomatoes he...
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Thursday, August 16, 2007
Ecuador 2007
Finally! I made it! I am now in Cuenca, Ecuador. I left Kelowna on Tuesday, August 14 at 3:00pm and i just arrived at my final destination, Thursday at 4:00pm. It has been quite an adventure so far. The airplane ride felt like it never ended. Luckily, ...
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Wednesday, August 15, 2007
