Hotel Carvallo Cuenca
Gran Colombia 952 y Benigno Malo Cuenca, 00000, Ecuador
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¡Feliz Año Neuvo!
The festivities began yesterday evening with music, dancing, and drunkenness when the school put an end to the old year and welcomed the new. It is appropriate that I have completed my own domestic preparations, outfitting my kitchen, etc. and I plan to spend the first day of 2012 making tomato sauce. I have my workstation with enormous roses and a clock overhead so I won't ...
Cuenca means the children rules
... slow moving, I would often take a photo of the children and then show them their image on the back of the camera and they smiled.
Been so tall relative to the locals, I had a grandstand view standing ...
No More Gallbladder for Fred
Okay, so we are taking turns! From our own personal experiences, that I have written in this blog, you are getting the full gamut of what medical care is like in Cuenca!
Sunday night Fred started to have unusually severe abdominal pains. Our wonderful friend John drove us to the Monte Sinai Hospital Emergency room. There were no other patients there when we arrived so they checked Fred over immediately. At one point they ...
Time with Friends
... 8217;s sister Sarah). The tender chicken dish is served with rice; they also fried up a bunch of plantains. Even though Seco means dry in Spanish, the chicken is served in a sauce -- an oxymoron. All delicious.
After dinner the young ones took off for the other half of the Benial Art Exhibit which was at a different location, while us older folks stayed home and chatted. Santiago's family, Mom, Dad, and Grandma do not speak English but we had a ...
Everything looks different on the equator
I have been completely changed by my time in Ecuador, both at the beginning of the year and now. Everything from 'time' to 'when to panic' to 'the use of technology' to 'the process of aging' is treated so differently here and it has made me grapple with a lot of things in life that I always thought were 'just the way things are'. But being here has made me realize that not all of those things need to BE 'the way things are' and, in fact, I can decide how things ...



