School - Phone - Adventure

Today was busy. 

I had breakfast with the family and then went out with Ismael, my cousin, to see my school and learn how to take the bus there. It seemed like my school was on the complete opposite side of the city. It will be a long bus ride in the mornings but thats fine. 

My school isn't much bigger than Norwell High School but there are 4000 students there. It will be crazy haha. I get to wear a sweet uniform too. A jacket, tie and flannel pants on mondays and then a sweater and collared shirt with the school logo for the rest of the days.  Its in a really busy part of town and is really near to the main park in the city, La Carolina. 

After we went to the school we got ice cream and walked around the city a bit. Then it was time for me to get a cell phone. The number is 086418817. You will have to dial out of the US or where ever, then into Ecuador, then the number. 

After that Ismael had to go to driving school so i went back to the house and had lunch with Mama and abuelita (grandma). Lunch as good as always, we had an interesting soup then pasta with chicken and all sorts of veggies. We were talking about music for a while and abuelita, who is 80 something i think, got very distressed when she learned that Elvis was dead. It was so funny for Mama and I but abuelita seriously had no idea, and she loved the guy. 

After lunch we played ping pong for a while. They love to play and have a table in the basement. Then the rain came. Its cool, because we are on a hill we can see the rain coming from miles away and when it rains, it rains! 

So Ismael and I sat around for a while playing pong and wondering what to do. We finally decided that we wanted to go for a drive so off to the city we headed, but then the traffic was terrible and we turned around and decided that it would be more fun to drive up the mountain. So we basically went past our house and keep going up and up and up. Its getting dark and the streets are really wet so this is already a sketchy operation, but we continued, soon the pavement turned to dirt and the dirt road to a muddy path with deep ruts and potholes. Its really dark now and we can't see much and eventually the car gets stuck in the mud and we are sliding around on the edge of a huge drop, fun fun. So we are trying to get the car moving again while a couple of the locals are standing there probably laughing to themselves. We finally we got it free. It was only after the whole ordeal was over when I actually looked at the city below. It was such a view! If you look at the picture I posted a few days ago, imagine that view except a thousand times better. I will go back up on a dry night with my camera sometime. 

My spanish is getting better each day, conversations flow much easier and I have to use my dictioary less and less. But, as i write this, I am realizing that my English is in rapid decline, so I apologize for any spelling/grammar mistake or if it generally doesn't sound great. As long as you get the details, everything is fine. 

One more thing, i just went through some settings here and I didn't realize that only registered users of this site could comment. So i changed that, now everyone can and should comment!