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.

3 kommentarer:

  1. Buenas Noches Lynn!

    Como estas? Estamos bien en Voss. Hablo un poco espanol despues dos viajes de Colombia.
    Men nå tror eg at eg må gi meg. Det er jo en stund siden eg snakket spansk sist (2006) og eg husker bare noko ord.
    Det er kjekt å lese at du er frisk igjen. Men hva for un fullt program har du! Alle turer og party's.
    Eg er litt misyndelig når eg leser at du ligger på stranda, bade i sjøen og koser deg i fine været. Mens her er det meldt 4 minus grader i morgen...brrrr.
    Det har ikkje kommet snø endå, bortsett fra på Gråsida og Lønahorgi men det er ikkje lenge til før vi kan hente fram ski. Tror eg trenger en tur til Ecuador først, før eg er klar for norsk vinter :-)
    Carmen har store planer for å sende brev til deg, men du vet ting tar tid med ho. Så eg er ikkje sikkert brevet er ferdig til jul.

    Då må du koser deg med alle turer og party's og lykke til med spansk undervisning.

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  2. Hallo meine Lynni Maus,
    danke für den ausführlichen Bericht über Dein ereignisreiches Wochenende. Ich kann mich Nana nur anschließen mit dem Wunsch nach Strand und warmen Wasser. Aber wir können im Moment nicht klagen übers Wetter. Jeden Tag Sonnenschein und Du weißt was das bedeutet in Voss im November. Alles ist leichter und die Lichtdepression kommt gar nicht erst zum Ausbruch. Arbeitswochenende nun... Warten gespannt auf Deine nächsten spannenden Berichte!!! Dicken Kuss von Deiner Mama.

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  3. Meine liebe Lynni_Maus,du bist ja immer auf Achse, gut so, das Jahr geht so schnell vorbei.
    Wichtig ist, dass du auf dein Wohlergehen achtest, damit noch viel "passieren" kann. Wir haben uns schon ziemlich wohnlich eingerichtet. Jetzt haben wir Mamas und Gunnars Übernachtung hergerichtet. Und der Garten ist heute winterfest gemacht. Jetzt kann die Weihnachtszeit kommen. Bin gespannt, wie diese in Quito gefeiert wird. Große Umarmung von deiner Oma und lieben Gruß von Wolfgang

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