dreamer

I´m at an internet cafe right now listening to Jenn Grant music on cbc.ca radio 3. I don´t know why they call them internet cafes. There´s usually not coffee. maybe some fanta and chocolates for sale but that´s about it. I´m starting to kind of miss aspects of Canada. But for the most part things have been going great.

About 100 pictures that I had taken my first week or so in Ecuador some how got erased from my camera when I was transfering them to my lap top. So as usual I am disliking technology. Hopefully sometime in the next two weeks I will be able to go back to Riobamba and Chimborazo and take more photos.

On Friday we move to Sangolqui and meet the families we will be living with for the next four months. I´ve had a meeting with the program coordinator and she has said that she has a fairly easy going family for me. Which is good, because I must admit that I feel a bit silly that I´m 23 years old and I will be living with a family again. Hopefully it will be a positive learning expierence. Haha.

We visited Sangolqui today. It seems like a nice place about a 35 minute drive to Quito. More trees and less trafic than in the city. It´s kind of like a suburb. The housse which has been transformed into our school looks really nice. A couple of classrooms, a kitchen, bathrooms, library, offices and 3 guard dogs. I´m doubting the guarding ability of these dogs. They are German Shepards however they seem happy to play fetch and have their belly´s rubbed.

I have met my three teachers and they all seem very nice. I also met the Canadian Ambassador to Ecuador. He seemed like an interesting guy. Our group bombarded him with questions about mining practices in Ecuador, Canada´s relationship with the new Ecuadorian government, and the Canada´s involvement in Colombia and Haiti amongst other things. He works for the Canadian government and has a fairly well paying awesome job. He defened Canada´s involvement in basically every situation they have ever been in as far as foreign affairs go. He does seem to dislike George Bush´s government which seems like a small plus.

hasta luego amigos.