La Posada Colonial Quito

... gaan eten of drinken( wat ik toch niet ga doen ;-) ).
Even later kwamen Lydia en Katie aan. Samen met Katie´s zus en nog een vriendin zijn we een pizza gaan eten. Daarna kwam nog een Engelse vriend (die ook in Quito werkt) langs. Met z´n zessen zijn we dan nog iets gaan drinken in een cafeetje op een van de bergheuvels rond de stad. Het uitzicht vanop het terras was adembenemend...
Morgen gaan we met z´n allen + een Canadees gezin naar Itchymbaya te gaan...

... boys are 12). It's crazy moments like these that make my day. I love having the opportunity to meet people of all backgrounds and ages.

Speaking of meeting people, i had the chance to go out with a guy, Alex, this passed weekend. He took me to one of the oldest partsof Quito. We listened ot music, watched dancers, and drank "canelazos" a cider with liquor, it's a native drink to quito. It was a blast, hopefully he'll ...

... she didn´t tip right over. She was with her daughter and had to be helped on and off the bus by a guy in the van. She was wizened from either age or the sun or both. We reached Tulcan anyway and got ourselves a bus to Quito. The bus was nothing to write home about. Not a patch on previous buses we´d travelled on, no air conditioning, no tv´s, a bad smell and it stopped randomly to let people on and off. No wonder it took us so ...

... as she is called here, from her shed where she lives with her hens and to ‘el comedor’, which is a dining hall for the elderly of Lumbisi. This I do every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, going there at 11am and taking her back around 1pm The food at the dining hall is by the way provided by FEVI funds and by the vegetable garden I work in.
I also started giving English lessons to kids Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 4 to 5pm. In these classes I’m focusing on ...

... and headed back down. However, by the time we got back, it was well beyond the patience of Andy, Dany, and Maria. Luckily, a message they had passed to the doorman made it to us and we eventually caught back up with them at the man plaza for lunch.
Our next goal was to climb up to the statue on the hill - el pancillo (little bread roll). Not sure if the statue is called “little bread roll” or the hill that statue is on is called that. The hill ...

... around an artificial lake while teenage lovers gather under shady trees. Nearby, a boy runs around being chased by his puppy while an old woman sells fruit cups from a wicker basket. We stroll a tree-lined path filled with paintings for sale by assorted artists, and I wish I knew where I was living in the fall so I could buy some art work. We grab lunch, sitting outside at a little Italian place before returning to the hostel for an afternoon nap. What a perfectly lazy Sunday.

... mit Führ**.
Zum Abschluss fuhren wir noch zum "Mitad del Mundo", dem Denkmal am Äquator. Ecuador hat seinen Namen ja nicht von ungefähr. Obwohl es sich noch mehr od** we***** in d** Stadt befindet, dau**te die Busfahrt wegen des starken V**kehrs, Umsteigens und Nicht-Auskennens welch** d** richtige Bus ist, rund 1,5 Stunden. Das Monument (ein Turm mit Museum innen drin) befindet sich auf dem Fleck an dem man ...

... gets out of the car and opens the trunk. After handing me my bag the dude has the guts to say ¨You have any more soles you want to exchange for dollars?¨. Furious, I grab the bag and push my attacker away from me as I sprint towards Ecuador. I thought about going to the police in Ecuador, but I new I would be tied up in that mess for hours. How could I identify the taxi or the men? The only cars on the road are taxis or quasi-taxis, and the thousands of ...

... the guard then shouted for no photographs to be taken. So I tried to take pictures without the guard looking, sneaking a picture shot here and there. But he must have seen me as when I looked again, his finger was waving at me and sternly said "no fotos".

After spending about ten minutes admiring the beauty of inside the La Compania church, we were all told to leave as they wanted to close the door. I walked to the Plaza Grande which was close ...