¿Habla usted inglés?

Our first day in Ecuador was yesterday. We arrived to our host family´s house late on Sunday. Everyone here speaks Spanish including our house family who speaks NO english what so ever! It all started in Miami when they said everything in Spanish before English haha. I´m picking some up but its a good thing julia know Spanish!

Isabella is our host mother and there are 2 wild and crazy little boys in the house as well, Pablo and Nicholas. The houste does not have any cold water julia and i bundle up after showers because it is ICEY cold. In the morning Isabella had breakfast for us which was a small egg and bread. The bread was extremly good!! There was also some kind of juice which she made from a large fruit, i´m not sure what it was. Isabella and Pablo walked us to school where julia and I split up for Spanish lessons. After the lessons we went home for lunch.


outside our spanish school. this is half of the i know no spanish class.

We were both starving by lunch! Isabella had soup, rice, cabbage, and some sort of meat for us. Neither of us at the meat but everything else was rather tasty. We had a break before we had to go back to school and Isabella took Julia, the 2 boys, and I to a park on top of a mountain. It was extremely beautiful! It looked over the city of Quito and all the mountains that surrounded it. The clouds were just surrounding the mountains almost hugging them. Quito is right in the Andes mountains so as you walk the street you just see mountains sticking out of the horizon. Before we came to Ecuador everyone said you can experience 4 seasons in one day...well they ment it. On our way to the park Julia and I were hot and wearing shorts and a T shirt and it was sunny and beautiful but by the time we left, maybe and hour or so later, it was cold and rainy.


Us and Pedro at the park on the mountain! :)


More of the park!

At 4:15 we headed back to the school for salsa lessons. We had a minor detour on the way because we went the wrong way but because Julia and I have a stellar sense of direction we made it to the school on time! These were fun but really fast. Afterwards we went to an internet cafe to make some phone calls and a cute restaurant afterwards to hang out before dinner.

We gave the boys silly bands and they absolutly loved them. They watch the disney channel all the time as well as barney and other shows on pbs. Its funny to see them all in spanish. Pablo likes to pretend he´s Spiderman a lot too.

We caught a cab back to our host family´s house, which is only about a dollar for a cab ride. Everything here is really cheap. For dinner we had tortillas, chicken, rice of course, and banana which was super good!!! It was warm which i didn´t expect it to be. Hopefully I can upload some pictures at my host family´s house!
Chao!