Yay it's October!!! This year has just flown right by. Nothing special has happened around here. Oh, except the last 3 days I have my alarm set for 7:25 and I wake up at 6:41... It's strange. We got the date wrong for the soccer game, so it was last night instead. It was a pain in the ass getting there and getting tickets, but it all ended up working out. The game wasn't that good, but it was fun to see Quito in a different way. Some Ecuadorian guy sat by us and ...

Yay! There's fresh meat in the house! The feeling I have right now is one that I never thought I'd have here. I remember (last week) how intimidating it is entering a strange house with 11 people (9 when I got here) that already live there and know their ways around. Now, I'm the one that can give advice and tips on getting adjusted easily. I'm very excited to be helpful to them, because I wish I had someone that was as excited to help me. The two new people are ...

Today was my first day in Mindo. We woke up early to catch the bus and it was a 2 hour drive here. It was a beautiful drive!!! They played a weird Ecuadorian movie on the bus that was half Spanish, half English though. It started out with a guy sleeping around with a bunch of women and one day a lady dropped a baby off to him saying it was him. Long story short, the mom returned when the girl was 6 and tried to get custody but lost. Then after a paternity test, t...

Spanish class was difficult today. I don't know why, but I didn't understand as much. Oh well, only 2 more classes left! I enjoyed the market we went to today. There was about 20 kids and I think that's a lot for a market. Apparently it's always cold at this market but no one informed me until we were on our way, so that was unfortunate. I played frisbee with one kid and another volunteer for a long time and then we broke into groups to do activities. There was a...

I'm writing this as some of us in the house are watching Sixteen Candles and eating popcorn. It reminds me of the first time I saw this movie, which was at Danielle Bellinis house on her sixteenth birthday! It was a fun time. I miss those high school days the most right now. Everything was easy, but it felt so difficult... Like our lives would end if we didn't get to go to the football game on Friday night or if we had to do write a 2 page essay. Yeah, 2 pages!!!...