Mansion Del Angel Quito

... boobs. At first i tired to laugh, but that proved impossible..... In special education I am working ith a 14 year old boy named Rodrigo, he has an attitude but it's hillarious. He always says aprendes Lorena, aprendes, as if he were the teacher and I the student. Whenever he gets something right he pounds his chest, it's prety hard not smile. In my high school classes the girls are constatnly asking if I have a ...

... the city are absolutely breathtaking, and the old, broken down architure is so romantic. The soft pastels that paint the buildings blend in perfectly with the mountains which the city sits on. I wish I were a photographer so I could capture even a fraction of the city´s beauty.

Ok this entry has been long enough...i´ll write more later on about the food and the spanish lessons Dan and I are taking!!


chao para ahora!

... with the tour which included the back garden where he picked some indecipherable fruit to share with me. It looked a bit like a cherry tomato but was more sour and was covered in a papery shell that looked like star anise fruit. I was a bit worried about eating it unwashed but not wanting to be impolite I ate it anyway... I think I may have my first Sth American boyfriend :)

I thought we might be on the same par language ...

... and I never got the feeling anyone thought anything serious would happen. In any case, we walked around looking at beautiful old churches and enjoying the ambiance of what felt like a big town. I think our favorite church was this old gothic one that took up an entire city block. We were able to go inside it and climb up circular staircases for what seemed like forever until we ...

... come botanical gardens in Parque Carolina, which is in downtown Quito. There were tons of huge, beautiful roses. Semi-interesting fact: ¼ of roses in the U.S. come from Ecuador. They grow well here because of the rich Andean soil. We also saw lots of amazing orchids. There was also an exhibition of carnivorous plants. Some looked as if they were big enough to eat a guinea pig! In another part of the gardens they had a medicinal plant section. It was funny to ...

... the local staff *****ed about me not speaking Spanish I was ready to up and leave as it was pretty hectic but sticking it out I sucked it up and after the first day of **** its way better now. The locals girls here can be a bit moody (but hey I'm moody queen), and apparently they get less than 150 dollars a month so when they see us eating and drinking for free etc, it would get a bit annoying. They are generally really cheeky and funny and now one of them calls me Mama because I'm ...

... but i am scared of him...maybe later i will warm up to him. they have a housekeeper named maria. i gave maria all of my laundry, so i don´t think she likes me that much anymore. immediately next door, perhaps in the same building, lives another ¨host brother´ . as i mentioned, there are presidental elections today. actually that last brother came ...

... LUNA) went under the light the sun disappeared behind a cloud. We found out afterwards that the god of the moon (luna) is more powerful than the sun god..... Maybe there's more to this theology than we thought... The rest of the temple was disappointingly touristy, with shops, electricity, and carpet. Next stop a volcano! The very first thing our guide said was that we had been told a lie. This wasn't a crater. In fact it hardly resembled more than a valley surrounded by ...

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....and then walked a few blocks to the main square.



When we got to the square there was some sort of noisy demonstration under way, which always makes you a bit nervous when you're in ...

... reception for them the next morning - but when I did, they'd already left.

It's so strange when things like this happen. Louis was the first person I spoke to in South America, other than service people such as cab drivers etc. The same thing had happened to me in Australia where the first person I met (in the bunk bed below mine) was the barman from my local pub back home. What are the odds?

We stayed in Quito for a few days, acclimatising and getting to know the city. We ...