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Phrase of the day:
Que, no hay luz hoy? [Mario: Viva Ecuador!]... What, there isn't electricity today? [Mario: Long live Ecuador!]
The past few days have been a bit rough, but thankfully Mario makes everything a joke! During the daytime we have not had electricity for the most part. Unfortunately, that means the town pretty much shuts down and it get pretty boring. And I suppose it's also a problem because that means we have no water, which is brought into the house with an electric pump, but not the end of the world. Thankfully power comes back by dinner time usually... whew! (I'm guessing they're turning off power on purpose to work on power lines or something, but no one knows for sure).
A picture of the batcave (filled with books, papers for my projects, and my electronics... I know, pretty classy! I'm just glad I got the white, not bright pink, mosquito net):
On Monday I met with the high school class again. All of the kids are great. They don't all care about doing the work, but they're the oldest kids in the school, so at least they're the best behaved. This past class I taught them how to plan a(any) project. It went amazingly/surprisingly well. Hopefully I knew what I was talking about actually!
On Tuesday there were elections for the student government. It was different. Instead of electing people for individual positons, the kids voted for which party they wanted. Hmm, I guess that's just like real life, so not that different I suppose! I helped out by passing out the ballots to the students in their classes, and then counting them afterwards.
I'm not sure what happened (once again, I know!), but it seems I may be getting an office with a/c, a computer, and internet! On Thursday, I met a guy named Tito who works for all of the Junta Parroquials(local governments) in this region. Don't worry, it's been 75 days here in Ecuador and I still can't say that word. Anyway, he likes all of the projects I am working on, and thinks I should have an office in the Junta here. We'll see what he can actually hook up, but I'll wait to see before I go and buy internet on my own.
One of my host family's super-funny uncles has been staying here for almost 2 weeks now. He initially came just for a weekend, and somehow stayed way past that. To help you picture him better, just think of Uncle Bacchu. He has similar jokes, mannerisms, and he's always saying crazy(hilarious) things to mess with everyone. He's finally leaving tomorrow, so his sister made him a farwell cake... it was pretty funny. She has definitely had enough of him. (Crazy uncle wearing Kasie's sandals):
The night got more ridiculous. Halfway through eating the cake, Mario realized that Robertito's birthday is tomorrow. We used our resources, aka a half eaten cake, and went ahead and surprised him. We totally cleaned it up a bit and put it on a different plate, but hilarious either way. (Finally some faces with some names: Diego(Karen's boyfriend), Karen, Luis, Robertito, Mario, Mitha):
Robertito lives in the bamboo/wood hostel just like me... way too many people on his bed at one time:
A tradition here, as well... but here you definitely get your hands held behind you:
Eventually we had a good number of people over. I'd name them if I could, haha:
Hope everyone is having a great holiday weekend!
ps: The cake was really yummy. I'm not sure what type it was, but it's definitely the best dessert I've had since Quito/Cayambe. (Yeah, they don't eat desserts here... which I'm sure I've complained about before, haha... traggic!)
Phrase of the day:
Que, no hay luz hoy? [Mario: Viva Ecuador!]... What, there isn't electricity today? [Mario: Long live Ecuador!]
The past few days have been a bit rough, but thankfully Mario makes everything a joke! During the daytime we have not had electricity for the most part. Unfortunately, that means the town pretty much shuts down and it get pretty boring. And I suppose it's also a problem because that means we have no water, which is brought into the house with an electric pump, but not the end of the world. Thankfully power comes back by dinner time usually... whew! (I'm guessing they're turning off power on purpose to work on power lines or something, but no one knows for sure).
A picture of the batcave (filled with books, papers for my projects, and my electronics... I know, pretty classy! I'm just glad I got the white, not bright pink, mosquito net):
On Monday I met with the high school class again. All of the kids are great. They don't all care about doing the work, but they're the oldest kids in the school, so at least they're the best behaved. This past class I taught them how to plan a(any) project. It went amazingly/surprisingly well. Hopefully I knew what I was talking about actually!On Tuesday there were elections for the student government. It was different. Instead of electing people for individual positons, the kids voted for which party they wanted. Hmm, I guess that's just like real life, so not that different I suppose! I helped out by passing out the ballots to the students in their classes, and then counting them afterwards.
I'm not sure what happened (once again, I know!), but it seems I may be getting an office with a/c, a computer, and internet! On Thursday, I met a guy named Tito who works for all of the Junta Parroquials(local governments) in this region. Don't worry, it's been 75 days here in Ecuador and I still can't say that word. Anyway, he likes all of the projects I am working on, and thinks I should have an office in the Junta here. We'll see what he can actually hook up, but I'll wait to see before I go and buy internet on my own.
One of my host family's super-funny uncles has been staying here for almost 2 weeks now. He initially came just for a weekend, and somehow stayed way past that. To help you picture him better, just think of Uncle Bacchu. He has similar jokes, mannerisms, and he's always saying crazy(hilarious) things to mess with everyone. He's finally leaving tomorrow, so his sister made him a farwell cake... it was pretty funny. She has definitely had enough of him. (Crazy uncle wearing Kasie's sandals):
The night got more ridiculous. Halfway through eating the cake, Mario realized that Robertito's birthday is tomorrow. We used our resources, aka a half eaten cake, and went ahead and surprised him. We totally cleaned it up a bit and put it on a different plate, but hilarious either way. (Finally some faces with some names: Diego(Karen's boyfriend), Karen, Luis, Robertito, Mario, Mitha):Robertito lives in the bamboo/wood hostel just like me... way too many people on his bed at one time:A tradition here, as well... but here you definitely get your hands held behind you:Eventually we had a good number of people over. I'd name them if I could, haha:Hope everyone is having a great holiday weekend!ps: The cake was really yummy. I'm not sure what type it was, but it's definitely the best dessert I've had since Quito/Cayambe. (Yeah, they don't eat desserts here... which I'm sure I've complained about before, haha... traggic!)
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