Two first weeks in cuenca are over. It has been two very interesting weeks! Our spanish is doing pretty good, we are learning a lot every day from our professor, Martha. It´s just us two and her, so from 8 in the morning to 12 it´s very intense learning. We are just now learning about past tence, and tomorrow we will start on irregular verbs in preteritum. It´s not easy. Anyways we are having fun at school every day, sometimes a little tired though. After sch...

After a crazy mountain - taxi - ride we arrived in Cuenca sunday afternoon. Here we are attending a spanish school named after the notorious General Simon Bolivar. Our host families have taken good care of us, which is chevere since we both have had some trouble with our digestive systems. Nevertheless we are learning spansih, getting tan, sightseeing and eating alot of good Ecuadorian mountain-food. Fun fact: Cuenca is situated at 2500m, which is higher than the...

Hurray! Somehow both of us ended up in Guayaquil without any mentionable problems.. Chevere! We arrived at the airport thursday night, and got picked up by a friend of Ludvig from the time in the States, Ivo Bermudez. For 4 days we stayed with Ivo and his familiy. During these days we got to eat A LOT of Ecuadorian food, see the big sites in Guayaquil and got to experience a little part of life in a big south american city. The traffic was completely crazy. For u...

After sleeping my way from Trondheim, via Kobenhavn, to Madrid I´ve now been wandring around here in Spains capital for several hours. The only impressions I have so far is that there is a very nice park here in the centre of the city, and that eating paella should be done at nice resturants. Ugh.Time is passing and my departure is closing in so iIt´s starting to look like i´m spending the night the airport, Barajas. My budget is tight and my flight leaves at ...

Last night in Greensburg before leaving for NY and south america. Finished packing my backpack, wierd to have your entire life for one year in a small handluggage backpack. But it feels great not to have too much stuff to carry around. Tomorrow at 8am I will get on the train that's taking my to New York. Planning on eating dinner on Manhattan before taking a bus out to the airport, where I will spend the night. My flight to Ecuador is thursday at 9.40 am. BUT: As...