Spanish sounds as though it just rolls right of the tongue. But you see when I speak a the spanish, I can only speak in one way, with a thousand tenses (or so it feels). Past/Present, formal/informal, feminine/masculine, and the list of speaking rules goes on. English is fun, you can play with words ALL the time.
Bonus to the day, I didn't get lost on my way to my first Spanish Lesson, and it was just Faulcie (I can not pronounce her name very well, I feel bad) and I. So there is 3 weeks, where it will be only Spanish and I have to decipher it. PLUS I ordered a double shot of espresso. I'd ask about Americanos, but I didn't see it on the list, and I can't speak fluently enough to start asking questions. So I downed 2 shots, delicious!
Non Bonus, I had to wake up at 7am. This altitude makes you sleepy. I love the fact that I can do fine on 6 hours of sleep. But here 7 is rough and 8 I still wake up yawning. Hopefully that will get better otherwise I feel like I sleep too much. Even though it's normal.
I babysat tonight too, It is Matt's birthday so he and Marlo went to dinner and a Movie. While I warmned up leftovers and watched Bolt with the kids. Good times. They are funny, and a bit insane, but all in good health.
And that pretty much sums up the day. LONG. My head hurt so bad after walking out of that spanish class. I am to study everyday this weekend the notes I took today, and review them Monday. Plus I'm doing Rosetta Stone on top of that for extra help. That's a lot of language.
Friday, February 27, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Exploring....
It's only Tuesday and I had to think about what day it was for a moment. It's been a whole lot of playing since I arrived. I wrote about hanging around on Sunday. Monday, Mikala, Marlo and I went down towards the historical part of Quito. Climbed around on the Basilica, the church is beautiful. It has these funny clocks upon both towers that add an interesting touch to the structure. The clocks look like they are from the 80's and the Basilica was built in 1892, so they look kind of out of place. It seems like the clocks would at least have roman numerals or something of sophistication.
After that we walked down past the presidents home, and ate somewhere around there. I had my first fried plantain stuffed with cheese and spice stuff. It was delicious but I don't understand how they turned it into a stuffed poc
ket the outer shell was all plantain. Non the less delicious. Later that evening I learned how to make peppered jelly. Supposidly it goes well on crackers with Cream Cheese. It looks like we did an A+ job. We'll be tasting it later this afternoon to find out! Marlo and I stayed up talking until a little after 11pm, it was nice.Today we began the orientation progress, and hopefully tomorrow I will be getting enrolled in Language school! Then I'll have two weeks of that going on. I attempted some Rosetta stone today. The kids were laughing at me. Hopefully I'll catch on soon.
Tonight we'll be going to a pancake dinner, because it's Fat Tuesday here.
I'm excited because it will be the first time I get to meet some of the Youth World People!
Monday, February 23, 2009
9300 feet up
Oh to Travel....Love it.
In the wee hours of the morning 3:30am Jeff and Bryce and I got up to head to San Fransisco airport.
They saw me off for my journey to Ecuador. The first two flights were okay, I slept on and off for a majority of the air time. Then the last flight which took off at 3:55 pm was scheduled to arrive in Ecuador at 10:20pm. A supper fog supposedly took over the city of Quito making it impossible to land. So we circled the city, ran out of gas, flew to a neighboring airport refueled and returned to Quito to circle twice more upon FINALLY landing at 3am. 5 hours later poor Matt, I felt bad having no way to contact him. What fun would it be to have a normal flight right?
Missed church in the morning it starts at 10:30. But seems how Matt was up until 3am, as was Marlo because she waited for Matt's call that I had arrived. I'd been traveling forever, and slept in until 12:30. Technically it's 9:30 Californian time. But none the less it was over 9 hours of sleep I haven't had that in ages.
My first day I got a tour of the Super Maxi (grocery store) ate some booger fruit, yea fruit!
and the kids gave me a tour of the park at the end of the street. I got to see their offices and bedrooms and the parks kitchen. The dirt waterfalls, there is a lot going on in that park.
And that's all the news for now. I start classes in a few days. It's the Carnival holiday so the kids school is closed, and Youth World Offices are also closed up until Wednesday.
In the wee hours of the morning 3:30am Jeff and Bryce and I got up to head to San Fransisco airport.
They saw me off for my journey to Ecuador. The first two flights were okay, I slept on and off for a majority of the air time. Then the last flight which took off at 3:55 pm was scheduled to arrive in Ecuador at 10:20pm. A supper fog supposedly took over the city of Quito making it impossible to land. So we circled the city, ran out of gas, flew to a neighboring airport refueled and returned to Quito to circle twice more upon FINALLY landing at 3am. 5 hours later poor Matt, I felt bad having no way to contact him. What fun would it be to have a normal flight right?
Missed church in the morning it starts at 10:30. But seems how Matt was up until 3am, as was Marlo because she waited for Matt's call that I had arrived. I'd been traveling forever, and slept in until 12:30. Technically it's 9:30 Californian time. But none the less it was over 9 hours of sleep I haven't had that in ages.
My first day I got a tour of the Super Maxi (grocery store) ate some booger fruit, yea fruit!
and the kids gave me a tour of the park at the end of the street. I got to see their offices and bedrooms and the parks kitchen. The dirt waterfalls, there is a lot going on in that park.
And that's all the news for now. I start classes in a few days. It's the Carnival holiday so the kids school is closed, and Youth World Offices are also closed up until Wednesday.
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