umm

evidently someone wants an update.
but i dont have anything to say....i usually update after something interesting happens.

i had a dinner date with jackie saturday night. we went to a place called boca del lobo. i had salmon and it was marvelous. we then went and got dessert i had a crepe with strawberries, cream (that tasted like cake batter), and powdered sugar.

katy´s aunt and uncle are here. laura´s sister is here and her parents are coming within the next few days. brett´s family is coming soon, too. so basically i wont be seeing much of them in the next week or so.

jackie, whitney, and i have made plane reservations, and hostel reservations for our semana santa trip around ecuador. not sure if i already posted this but here´s our tentative itenerary:

leave for quayaquil by bus saturday sometime.
sunday night leave for the beach
we will be at the beach (an island thing) for a day and then head to Loja
we will be in Loja and the surrounding towns for 3 days (with a possible hiking and or camping excursion into the national park for a night)
then we will head to Cuenca for a few days (hopefully we will get to see IngaPirca while there, I´m pretty excited about that) and then fly from Cuenca back to Quito Sunday at 6:30pm-ish


I´m pretty excited about the whole thing actually. I´m suspecting the trip total will be around $500, giving myself some extra space in there in advance, too. Probably less. Who knows.
The 3 of us get along pretty well and I´m excited that it´s just a small group, it will be easier to get hostels and make plans on a whim if needed.

I had to write a short story for my LIT class for today. He said we could write in english or spanish. i had previously planned on writing in spanish - i am in ecuador you know - but it took me all day, until 11pm last night to think of a topic that i actually wanted to write about. i ended up writing about a bull fight. it´s not that great - not that i expected it to be - and its in english.

nothing else too exciting to report. only 3 days of classes this week. friday jackie and i are planning on finding some good friday festivities to attend - supposedly there are some parades and festivals during the day and id like to find a church service at night if possible.

anthro test tomorrow. worried.


okay. the end. hope this was satisfactory! :) ciao!