Wednesday was the birthday of the director at my school, so the whole day was a program for her. After the program, everyone started chanting "No school tomorrow!! No school tomorrow!" And she agreed. So there was no school Thursday for no reason. Friday was the Independence Day of Guayaquil, one of the major cities here, so we didn't have school then either. Seriously? There is a vacation for everything and nothing here. Every CITY has an independence day that they take off school and work for. It's glorious.
Thursday, I went to Parque Metropolitano with Sebas. It was a perfect day for the park. We were planning on riding bikes there, but found that the bikes were locked together. Normally, I have a set of keys, but ....well, I lost them. Also the keys to the house. So to even get into the house, I had to go the neighbors and climb over their "fence" into our backyard. Screwed up my ankle upon landing, right after banging my knee into the stone wall. It was awesome. Then I had to crawl through the kitchen window, in which my hips got stuck. I had to turn my body sideways to get through. I didn't even think I had hips! ...still haven't told momi and popi about all of this yet. or the keys. Quite honestly I'm terrified.
But once we finally got to the park, it was great. We sat and looked out over Cumbaya (another valley city) from a gorgeous spot high up on the mountain. We sat there in silence for probably 2 hours. It was beautiful.
We went wandering aimlessly after that for another couple of hours. And one thing you have to know about this park, is that it's HUGE. Most definitely bigger than Central Park in NYC. So we could have gotten lost very easily. The whole time we were walking, neither of us knew where we were or where we were going...and it was getting dark. I learned a valuable lesson in following my heart that day. Did I care that it was getting dark and I had absolutely no idea where I was in the middle of what seemed to be complete wilderness? No, and very uncharacteristic of me. But I just kept following the things in nature that sparked my interest. If it looked like something cool would be at the end of one path, I would follow that one..only the paths never ended. Only broke off into more paths. I was pretty sure that the entire time we were headed in the opposite direction of the entrance to the park, and that we would end up at the complete back, (it's totally fenced in) and have to walk all the way back (hours) in unlit darkness through the wilderness, in the fairly known-for-danger park. Though, at the actual end of the paths we had taken, was the entrance! and much closer to the street than where we had entered. I was blown away. Not to mention that I really wanted to see the sun setting, but all the trees had been in the way, and where we exited happened to be the most gorgeous view of the sunset. It was a spectacular day.
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Friday, the fam went to the Centro Historico de Quito, or Quito Antigua. We went to a few musuems and cathedrals, and another BEAUTIFUL park. I sware, the parks here are fabulous, and everywhere. This park was on a hill, but without a lot of trees, so the view of Quito was gorgeous!
Click the PicSaturday, I went fishing in Papallacta. I don't know if I've actually ever caught anything before this day or not, but I caught three! And I had no idea how scared I was of fish lol. After catching it, you have to take it off the hook right? Yeah, I was freakin' out all over the place. Everytime I would get close to touching it, it would flinch or something, and I would run away. I felt like such a pansy lol. Everyone was looking at me like who's the gringa loca! It was cool though, because apparently, we were in the tundra? Which Josh and I talked about this, and we were pretty sure that "tundra" was only near the poles. But apparently, on the equator as well lol. It was thoroughly beautiful, as is everything here.
Is this not the best face ever? You can't really tell, but my finger is in the fish's gill. Dang Uncle.clic the pic
Host Fam
My mom was driving me home from my first successfully completed Spanish ballet class, when she decided to confide in me! It's confidential of course, but the point is that she's beginning to trust me.
Emi (sis) and I started exercising together... It's a blast. Honestly, we laugh more than work out, but that's a work out too, right? We're planning on getting a cheesy workout video; like Solomon, Jessica, and I, and the Hip Hop Abs video. haha. I'm thinking Yoga Booty Ballet? Yes, that is a work out video.
School
Today, my English teacher said "they speak English on all 5 continents!"
phaha. How many continents are there teacher?
In economics today, I explained the war in Iraq and its economic affects...in Spanish! I was thoroughly expecting everyone to look at me with blank stares and not understand what I said, but everyone was nodding, and when I finished, the teacher went right on with "yes, as Heidi said.."
It felt good to be able to say what I wanted and it be understood : )
Thoughts
I'm confused. I don't know what I'm feeling. I'm unsettled and I have knots in my stomach. Somethings wrong. I feel disconnected and uneasy...I feel an attack.
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