May 2009
17 posts
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Op-ed piece by Kristof this week
“I forgot how easy it was to break a twenty-dollar bill here.”
IM BAAAACK
Okay I’m back! But I’m definately in a little bit of culture shock.
Weird adjustments already:
1. Not having to throw my toliet paper into a trash can. I keep looking for the trash can and then remembering it can just go in the toliet
2. Having my own computer and having internet that seems SUPER CRAZY fast
3. Having a cell phone.
4.Just basically everything else too. the...
aeropuerto
I´m at the Quito airport… I actually will be here longer then my flight to Atlanta will take. The last of my friends flew out at 6 onward to Peru to finish up their 6 month volunteering stint with GVI.
I will be in the States by 6 tomorrow morning. Woot woot. Hope you are all doing well and I can´t wait to see/talk to you all as soon as I am back and reunited with my cell phone/car.
Love,
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United States Bound
In 48 hours I will be back in the state - absolutely crazy. I can´t believe I leave tomorrow night (11pm). I pretty much can´t believe how fast these two months have gone by. BUt don´t you worry my loyal readers… I plan to blog a bit right after the trip and update it with all the pictures I haven´t yet had time to add. As of now all I know is that I will be taking a serious haitus from...
I Survived the Amazon
The title says it all pretty much. I think I will upload a few pics later today and then definately when I get back to the states where the internet connection isn´t as slow as snails.
Really enjoyed the jungle. Saw pink dolphins, SLOTHS (pretty much what I went to see) about 4 species of monkeys, lots of scary BIG spiders, anacondas, pirhanas (caught one when we went fishing)
An unoffical book review
I am wasting time here online since we don´t have much planned and we don´t have to be at the bus terminal until 11pm. So I´ve decided to give an impromptu unofficial book review on all the books I´ve read since arriving in Ecuador. I don´t remember all the authors - apologies.
*- eh. I found it hard to finish and or boring
** - Fine if you have an 8 hour bus ride and need to spend some time
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Welcome to the Jungle...
I´m actually not in the jungle yet I leave tonight at 11:30pm. But this will be my last opportunity to blog until I return.
Not really sure what to post about, I feel to tired to recap the last 3 days of the galapagos. So I think I´ll just do a random thoughts post.
I learned that I need to get a new camera, while I was in the Galapagos, cause my zoom suuuuucks. But thats okay I still got cool...
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Busy Busy Busy
Super busy traveling to the beach since I got back to the galapagos. The rest of my trip to the galapafos was good - pretty scary flight back where we had to make two attempts to land in Quito because of bad weather it was foggy and raining and Quito is notorious for having a really bad runway (short and between huge mountains and the city is literally built up around it and theres a cliff). Lots...
Galapagos Day 5
Ok so I have a chance to blooooog. Today is the 5th day and so we stop at Stanta Cruz Island and drop off those passengers that only booked a 5 day trip and pick up a few more that have booked a four day trip. This basically all means that I get a chance to fill you in on what’s been going on.I’m gonna try and do this in short little snipets because I’ll get to tired trying to...