road trip

so... last weekend (not this past, but the one before) had a really good time traveling around some. i did get invited back to the farm and had spent friday night there. since it was a holiday weekend we decided to ´vamos a vuelta´ translates to road trip saturday and sunday. this was super cool. took the backroads down from the mountains to the coastal region through all of the little towns and got to hear their stories as well. also saw some of the biggest chickens in my life, and the fearless goose who would not move out of the middle of the road, but did honk back at us. went through bucay and pallatanga, the people in the coastal region are incredibly nice and helpful. spent the night in a cute little cabana and progressed to the fairs in guayaquil the next day. i attended my first livestock fair and rodeo. sitting in bamboo bleachers swilling beer and watching people fall off of horses. sort of reminded me of home... later that afternoon went to the fair of durán, the largest trade fair in ecuador. and it was HUGE. and fortunatly the bus ride home on monday was uneventfull, i did not take the sucre line. this past weekend, up to my eyeballs in homework as i have three exams and a presentation, all tomorrow!!! wish me luck.

downtown truncal

oh yeah! felt my first earthquake yesterday. there is something fundamentally disturbing about feeling the ground move.

is it me?

probably better

the coastal countryside

the rodeo

this is where i go to school