Last week was not happening very much.On Tuesday I went swimming again. Wednesday was Party day, as always. On Thursday I joined Elsa to her Church, which was very interesting. Because it was a private house, no church. Thursday is womens day and there where only whifes. They sang, prayed and studied the bible. After that I looked at a crazy street citchen. A lot og food I did not want or should eat! On Friday we wanted to go to the cinema and see "New Moon". But it was the first day playing and of course there where no tickets left! On our way back we got soaking wet, because it rained like hell.
Saturday 28.11.
At 5 am I stood up to meet the others at the school at 6 am to go to Banos. After checking in at the hostel and all that we did rafting at 2 pm. It was really cool. The views and landscape where great. And the water really fun!
Sunday 29.11.
Today I was feeling really sick, I could not go to the waterfall climbing with the others. :( Instead me and Kathi went to a Zoo. It was really sad, because the cages where to small and ugly. Then we chilled in the grass infront of our hostel and waited for the others. The bus back to Quito did not leave before 5:30 which was kind of hard for me with my strong cold!
Today Monday 30.11.
This morning at 9 am I left Quito. I took the bus to Otavalo with a man from the spanish school. Now I am waiting here in Otavalo for a man from my foundation to pick me up. Then I will go to Cotachacci to work. I am a little nervous, because I do not know what it is like there. I know I have a family and I live at a farm with indegious people, but I dont know what I will work with and if there are other volunteers there. I left a lot of stuff at Elsas house and travel only with my backpack now. She even gave me some ginger to make tea with for my cold! At my little village will be no internet and I dont know when I can write again. But dont worry, I am fine, even if I might have to shower in more or less cold water up there. Today I will not work yet, I will only meet everyone and see everything. But maybe tomorrow I will work, with what? I dont know... ;)
mandag 30. november 2009
mandag 23. november 2009
Update
Wednesday 18.11.
Today I got my ecuadorian ID. Cool, he? Now a lot of things are cheaper for me and I do not need to carry the copy of my passport anymore. Afterwords we had Cocktail lessons in school and went out after that, it was a fun night.
Thursday 19.11.
This ws an easy day only clases and cocking at the volunteerhouse.
Friday 20.11.
Pretty much like Thursday, cocking and chilling at the volunteerhouse.
Saturday 21.11.
Today I did really a lot! I went to Otavalo with the school. We started by eating a fruit which ws really strange, called Chirimoya. Then we had breakfast: Bischocha, which is a kind of bread with cheese and hot chocolate. Then we had a short stop to make photos at Mira Largo, a baeutiful lake. The first stop in Otavalo was a marked for animals and after that the BIG handicraft marked where we had 2 hours to shop. I spend 70 dollars for 2 of these funny "South-america"-throusers, scarfs in bright colours and jewerely of course. We ate dinner at an good restaurant and I tried a little cuy again and I did not like it: again...
This was in Cotacachi, where I will start to work next Monday. It is a quite bid town and I will not be cut from civilisation! Cotacachi is the town of leather, hre you can by anything in leather. My money was empty, but I will have my chance when I work there. The last two stops where a beautiful laguna and a waterfall. Then we made our way back to Quito and it was not easy! We spend 4 hours, because the road was closed because of pilgrims, who walked 10 hours from Quito to a church. We had to take detour, which took us 3 hours. Finally at 23 pm we arrived.
Sunday 22.11.
Today I went to the Vulcano Cotapaxi with school. We drove up to the parking at 4500 m. Then we walked up to the hut at about 4800m and had brakfast there. Walking has never been so hard, you just can not breathe up there. You walk 10 m and need to stop to rest! After breakfast we went up to the glacier. At 5000 m, wow I have never been up so high before! This where only 500 m altitude difference, less than our "house mountain" in Norway (which is usual to climb in 1 hour), and we used 3 hours for that! It was quite cold and there was hail. But the view and the landscape where really great. It was an amazing experience! The way down was much easier. And afterwards we visited a laguna and had lunch. At 6 pm we arrived in Quito. We all where really tired and I went home and to bed quite soon.
Today I got my ecuadorian ID. Cool, he? Now a lot of things are cheaper for me and I do not need to carry the copy of my passport anymore. Afterwords we had Cocktail lessons in school and went out after that, it was a fun night.
Thursday 19.11.
This ws an easy day only clases and cocking at the volunteerhouse.
Friday 20.11.
Pretty much like Thursday, cocking and chilling at the volunteerhouse.
Saturday 21.11.
Today I did really a lot! I went to Otavalo with the school. We started by eating a fruit which ws really strange, called Chirimoya. Then we had breakfast: Bischocha, which is a kind of bread with cheese and hot chocolate. Then we had a short stop to make photos at Mira Largo, a baeutiful lake. The first stop in Otavalo was a marked for animals and after that the BIG handicraft marked where we had 2 hours to shop. I spend 70 dollars for 2 of these funny "South-america"-throusers, scarfs in bright colours and jewerely of course. We ate dinner at an good restaurant and I tried a little cuy again and I did not like it: again...
This was in Cotacachi, where I will start to work next Monday. It is a quite bid town and I will not be cut from civilisation! Cotacachi is the town of leather, hre you can by anything in leather. My money was empty, but I will have my chance when I work there. The last two stops where a beautiful laguna and a waterfall. Then we made our way back to Quito and it was not easy! We spend 4 hours, because the road was closed because of pilgrims, who walked 10 hours from Quito to a church. We had to take detour, which took us 3 hours. Finally at 23 pm we arrived.
Sunday 22.11.
Today I went to the Vulcano Cotapaxi with school. We drove up to the parking at 4500 m. Then we walked up to the hut at about 4800m and had brakfast there. Walking has never been so hard, you just can not breathe up there. You walk 10 m and need to stop to rest! After breakfast we went up to the glacier. At 5000 m, wow I have never been up so high before! This where only 500 m altitude difference, less than our "house mountain" in Norway (which is usual to climb in 1 hour), and we used 3 hours for that! It was quite cold and there was hail. But the view and the landscape where really great. It was an amazing experience! The way down was much easier. And afterwards we visited a laguna and had lunch. At 6 pm we arrived in Quito. We all where really tired and I went home and to bed quite soon.
tirsdag 17. november 2009
Oh I have much to tell you
Sorry for not writing so long but I had really a lot going on and if I had time there was loss of power.
Friday the 06.11.
This day was only school and party until late at night.
Saturday 07.11.
We had to stand up early anyway, because we where going to Mindo, a small town with a lit of exiting things to do. Like: Canoping. On metal ropes we flew over the jungle. Wow, that was an adrenalin shock. Afterwords we went tubing, on hoops we where floating over the river. In the evening we where partying again. Hihi...
Sunday 08.11.
Still in Mindo we visited a butterfly farm in the morning. It was really great we saw them be born and fed them with banana juice. After that we tried to see some orchids but there where not many blooming. We took the bus back to Quito at 16:00 and arrived at 18:00. At home I met two Americans who lived with me one week, a new married couple on a veeery long honeymoon; world trip for one year.
Monday 09.11.
I had 8 hours Spanish to recover the coast trip! Wow that was hard! After school I cocked with 12 volunteers, nam nam pasta. We had a lot of fun!
Tuesday 10.11.
8 hours Spanish again! It almost killed me! After that I did not do much. Except watching X=Files with Gioia from next door!
Wednesday 11.11.
Only 5 hours of Spanish felt like heaven and after that I even had power left to go swimming with Sara. It was nice! Finally some exercise. Which I destroyed at once by going to the lady's night and party.
Thursday 12.11.
This day was just great!You will never guess what we did, we where on a "Die toten Hosen" concert. It was amazing! Only Germans in the whole club and only 200 people. Really private!
Friday 13.11.
We wnt out today as well but it was not my day and I went home at 11:30...
Saturday 14.11.
We met early again to visit the Guayasamin Museum, he is an ecuadorian painter, with a stile a little like Picasso. It really impressed me. The museum is called chapel of men, I really liked the idea of a chapel for mankind!
Then we had a home party at the volunteer house and I went out to play billiard with Jens from Berlin.
Sunday 15.11.
In the morning we went up a mountain here in Quito by cable car. The view was amazing!!! After what we went into old town and up a hill, there is a statue, the virgin of Quito. Of course there is a great view here too! In the evening we went to a really good Mexican restaurant to say "goodbye" to two of the girls who left for their projects.
Monday 16. 11.
Today we went to an soccer game after school. The team we went for lost! Uff... but it was cool to be in the stadium. Bur I would have expected even more shouting and better football! When I came home today the whole house was decorated for christmas. Wow, a little much and colorful for my taste but that is how it works here.
Tuesday 17.11.
Today I went to my project here in Quito to have a look. It was kind of shocking, but I had expected worse. Of course there are a lot of kids and to few grown ups, but I knew that. That is why I am here. I have to take the bus for about 30 minutes to work. The children are from parents who work at the marked which is very close to the school.
Friday the 06.11.
This day was only school and party until late at night.
Saturday 07.11.
We had to stand up early anyway, because we where going to Mindo, a small town with a lit of exiting things to do. Like: Canoping. On metal ropes we flew over the jungle. Wow, that was an adrenalin shock. Afterwords we went tubing, on hoops we where floating over the river. In the evening we where partying again. Hihi...
Sunday 08.11.
Still in Mindo we visited a butterfly farm in the morning. It was really great we saw them be born and fed them with banana juice. After that we tried to see some orchids but there where not many blooming. We took the bus back to Quito at 16:00 and arrived at 18:00. At home I met two Americans who lived with me one week, a new married couple on a veeery long honeymoon; world trip for one year.
Monday 09.11.
I had 8 hours Spanish to recover the coast trip! Wow that was hard! After school I cocked with 12 volunteers, nam nam pasta. We had a lot of fun!
Tuesday 10.11.
8 hours Spanish again! It almost killed me! After that I did not do much. Except watching X=Files with Gioia from next door!
Wednesday 11.11.
Only 5 hours of Spanish felt like heaven and after that I even had power left to go swimming with Sara. It was nice! Finally some exercise. Which I destroyed at once by going to the lady's night and party.
Thursday 12.11.
This day was just great!You will never guess what we did, we where on a "Die toten Hosen" concert. It was amazing! Only Germans in the whole club and only 200 people. Really private!
Friday 13.11.
We wnt out today as well but it was not my day and I went home at 11:30...
Saturday 14.11.
We met early again to visit the Guayasamin Museum, he is an ecuadorian painter, with a stile a little like Picasso. It really impressed me. The museum is called chapel of men, I really liked the idea of a chapel for mankind!
Then we had a home party at the volunteer house and I went out to play billiard with Jens from Berlin.
Sunday 15.11.
In the morning we went up a mountain here in Quito by cable car. The view was amazing!!! After what we went into old town and up a hill, there is a statue, the virgin of Quito. Of course there is a great view here too! In the evening we went to a really good Mexican restaurant to say "goodbye" to two of the girls who left for their projects.
Monday 16. 11.
Today we went to an soccer game after school. The team we went for lost! Uff... but it was cool to be in the stadium. Bur I would have expected even more shouting and better football! When I came home today the whole house was decorated for christmas. Wow, a little much and colorful for my taste but that is how it works here.
Tuesday 17.11.
Today I went to my project here in Quito to have a look. It was kind of shocking, but I had expected worse. Of course there are a lot of kids and to few grown ups, but I knew that. That is why I am here. I have to take the bus for about 30 minutes to work. The children are from parents who work at the marked which is very close to the school.
torsdag 5. november 2009
Weekend at the coast
Friday 30.10.
This day was kind of hard. I had 8 hours of spanish to recover my day og sickness. In the break we had some typical ecuadorian food, colada morada and guaguas de pan. Some kind of warm fruit juice and bread. Especially the juice was very good. At 23.00 8 of us girls took the nightbus to the coast. The first bus took about 7 hours, but I slept well. The second was worse, it took two hours from Atacames to Mompiche, our final destinastion. But a lot of the time we did not have a seat.
Saturday 31.10.
At 9 am we finally arrived in Mompiche. We found our hostel fast and went to have some braefast. Afterwards we went to the beach og course. Later we checked out the little town and had a good lunch. We met two german boys, who work here instead of going in the army. They are englisch teachers and it was interesting to hear about school and methods here. If the parents allow it, taechers kan hit the kids. We went down to the beach again and enjoyed the fruit cocktails. Thefruit is great but the alcohol they use here usually is really cheap, so to avoid an chuchacci (hangover) i drank the local beer instead. We met two ecuadorian guys too, they would take us surfing the next day. :)
Sunday 01.11.
At 1 pm we tried to surf. It is really hard and only possilbe with a lot of help. I only managed to get on my knees. Later that day I asked some guys at the beach if I could borrow their 4 weel motorcicle. I could! Then I drove down the beach on that really fast! It was great and I had an adrenalin shock for an hour and could nor talk about anything else! In the night we had a party at the beach again, it was very nice with bonefires everywhere. We still walked around in T-shirts because it wasn¨t colder than at daytime.
Monday 02.11.
In the morning the ecuadorian guys took us to Playa nergo, the black beach. Here the sand was all black, it was really nice, but we did not swim today because it wasn¨t that warm. When we came back to Mompiche the temprature was better and we tried to surf again, it wasn¨t any easier today eather. ;) In the evening we drove to Atacames to check out the nightlive there. But the driving there was better than to be there because the music in the beachbars was bad, while we had really good music in the truck. Everybody bought the same bracelet, to remenber out trip toghether. Taht was a really sweet idea. Two of us had to go home with the nightbus and now there where only six girls left. This night there was a full-moon-trance party in Mompiche and of course we went there. We danced and met new people all night, it was really great.
Tuesday 03.11.
After these powerful days we just packed and relaxed at the beach today. We all got sunburned once on this trip even if there always where clouds. We got tired of the sanf beeing everywhere and even showering in salty water... But it was so nice that we did not want to leave. Mompiche is really beautiful! But at 4.30 pm we took the bus to Atacames, had some dinner and waited a looooong time for the bus to Quito. At 23.30 it finally drove.
Wednesday 04.11.
At 6 am we arrived in Quito, took a taxi home and I went to sleep for 2-3 more hours. Than at 12.30 I had spanish lessons again. It was hard after 4 days of german and english but now I can theoraticly speak in past, present tense and future. After school there was a cocking lesson and we had avocado, tortillas and peanutsauce, jam jam! Afterwards we had a cocktail with a lot of new and old people from the school.
Thursday 05.11.
Today I have 5 hours spanish like yesterday to recover the lost days and after school I will attend Salsa lessons again.
Some of us already have a plan for next weekend, we will go to Mindo.
This day was kind of hard. I had 8 hours of spanish to recover my day og sickness. In the break we had some typical ecuadorian food, colada morada and guaguas de pan. Some kind of warm fruit juice and bread. Especially the juice was very good. At 23.00 8 of us girls took the nightbus to the coast. The first bus took about 7 hours, but I slept well. The second was worse, it took two hours from Atacames to Mompiche, our final destinastion. But a lot of the time we did not have a seat.
Saturday 31.10.
At 9 am we finally arrived in Mompiche. We found our hostel fast and went to have some braefast. Afterwards we went to the beach og course. Later we checked out the little town and had a good lunch. We met two german boys, who work here instead of going in the army. They are englisch teachers and it was interesting to hear about school and methods here. If the parents allow it, taechers kan hit the kids. We went down to the beach again and enjoyed the fruit cocktails. Thefruit is great but the alcohol they use here usually is really cheap, so to avoid an chuchacci (hangover) i drank the local beer instead. We met two ecuadorian guys too, they would take us surfing the next day. :)
Sunday 01.11.
At 1 pm we tried to surf. It is really hard and only possilbe with a lot of help. I only managed to get on my knees. Later that day I asked some guys at the beach if I could borrow their 4 weel motorcicle. I could! Then I drove down the beach on that really fast! It was great and I had an adrenalin shock for an hour and could nor talk about anything else! In the night we had a party at the beach again, it was very nice with bonefires everywhere. We still walked around in T-shirts because it wasn¨t colder than at daytime.
Monday 02.11.
In the morning the ecuadorian guys took us to Playa nergo, the black beach. Here the sand was all black, it was really nice, but we did not swim today because it wasn¨t that warm. When we came back to Mompiche the temprature was better and we tried to surf again, it wasn¨t any easier today eather. ;) In the evening we drove to Atacames to check out the nightlive there. But the driving there was better than to be there because the music in the beachbars was bad, while we had really good music in the truck. Everybody bought the same bracelet, to remenber out trip toghether. Taht was a really sweet idea. Two of us had to go home with the nightbus and now there where only six girls left. This night there was a full-moon-trance party in Mompiche and of course we went there. We danced and met new people all night, it was really great.
Tuesday 03.11.
After these powerful days we just packed and relaxed at the beach today. We all got sunburned once on this trip even if there always where clouds. We got tired of the sanf beeing everywhere and even showering in salty water... But it was so nice that we did not want to leave. Mompiche is really beautiful! But at 4.30 pm we took the bus to Atacames, had some dinner and waited a looooong time for the bus to Quito. At 23.30 it finally drove.
Wednesday 04.11.
At 6 am we arrived in Quito, took a taxi home and I went to sleep for 2-3 more hours. Than at 12.30 I had spanish lessons again. It was hard after 4 days of german and english but now I can theoraticly speak in past, present tense and future. After school there was a cocking lesson and we had avocado, tortillas and peanutsauce, jam jam! Afterwards we had a cocktail with a lot of new and old people from the school.
Thursday 05.11.
Today I have 5 hours spanish like yesterday to recover the lost days and after school I will attend Salsa lessons again.
Some of us already have a plan for next weekend, we will go to Mindo.
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