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alright sooo.....
i went to the first professional soccer game of the season. i was seriously in heaven. i <3 soccer. and in latin america it's my favorite thing ever. EVER. seriously they go crazy, it was so much more fun than an la galaxy game. and only $5!!! and beer was only $2 for a liter. winwinwinwin
i loved that memory from ecuador^
then in the weekend i went to the amazon. like the legit jungle with trees and monkeys and jungle stuff.
me and this other guy and a girl with an eyebrow piercing (that's how i'm going to describe her from now on) went. okay so it took 2 hours to get from my side of the city to the other. h8 quito traffic. but i sat in the front of the taxi (taboo to do in latin america if you have a vagina) and me and the taxi driver became besties. he talked to me for the whole ride. 2 hours of solid spanish. he was interesting though...one of my more fun taxi rides in my life.
anyways, we get to the bus station and find a bus for the rainforest. it should have been a 6 hour ride in total so we were like SWEET. we get on the bus. and 3 hours in or so, the bus breaks down. NOT SWEET. so we wait for about an hour until we realize that the bus isn't going to get fixed anytime soon so we get out of the bus and start walking down the street. and this place is like...a forest. so it's desolate. and we're like oh nooooooo.
but a bus came on and we got on it without even caring where it was heading. about an hour in the bus, we realize it wasn't going to where we needed to go. so we stayed on it for an hour or so more and they dropped us off in this strange city that was also abandoned. so we go to this ghetto bus stop and wait for about 20 minutes and this truck comes by. it's literally a pick-up truck. i think it was a dodge. they told us it was a taxi so we were like whatevsies and got in with the rest of ecuador. there were 7 people in the truck.
and he drove like 90 miles an hour through the rainforest which was seriously so scary because there were some big cliffs. but it was cool because we went through a cloud forest and stuff. anyways that took about another hour and then we were finally in the city we were supposed to be at with the original bus. BLEH.
so we get off in the city and relax a little. i ate some of the grossest street food i've ever had in my life (i miss mexico) and then we got on yet another bus to go deep into the rainforest. anyways we get on that bus and the douche guy i was with made me sit alone so he could sit with the girl. not cool. i was eyeraped worse than i had ever been in my life. and the guy that sat next to me hit on me the entire time. i told him i was from argentina to practice my accents and to see if my spanish was good enough to pass as though from a native speaking spanish country. and he went along with it but then said i spoke too clearly and innunciated my accents and r's too well and that i was probably from mexico. winloose.
after an horu on that bus we get dropped off in the middle of the street. it's pitch black, like the blackest black ever because there are no stars because there are too many trees. we get lucky enough to find the place we were supposed to stay and get there and no one is there. it's desolate. and this was after 12 straight hours of travel time so we were like FUCK OUR LIVES.
then like 20 minutes later these people come stumbling back and they tell us that they've been taking some rainforest drink i forgot the name of. anyways what that drink is:
you dirnk about a shot of it.
then you puke about 15 times (minimum)
then you hallucinate
then you apparently see the future
then the shawman (i have no idea how to spell that) helps you through your visions to declare if they are real or not
then you come back to reality
anyways, they had all just taken that drink and were puking and stuff. fun times. we get our key and go to our room. then we drank 2 beers in the hammock listening to the bugs and jungle stuff and passed the eff out.
THEN we all woke up at 6:30am to get served breakfast. it was pancakes made out of plantains and fresh juice. yumz. then like 5 minutes later i got super sick. i dunno if it was the breakfast or exhaustion or bad water or what. but i was throwing up and more dizzy than i had ever been in my life. the dizziness sucked.
and it was right when we were scheduled to go on some hike with some jungleman (a shawman, they're called) but i was sick. the jungleman was like fuck it you should still go on the hike weak little city girl. so we start hiking and i'm like insanely dizzy and suffering.
then in the middle of the jungle he gets these special leaves out and explains to us their importance. then he spat on them and rubbed them all over my body. then he chanted and blew on me and spit on me some more. then he made me chew some special twig he found on the jungle floor and rubbed more leaves on me. and you know what was weird? 30 minutes later, i felt great.
JUNGLEMAGIC.
we ate lunch and went home that day. glad i went, but i don't think i wanna go to the jungle ever again.
but this weekend we're going to the beach. apparently it's full of maleria, of which i have never gotten pills/shots to prevent. so lets hope for the best this weekend. :)
this week i started my community service work too. i teach english at this really poor school on the outskirts of quito. they're little shits. i don't ever want to teach kids under the age of 10. fml it's so hard. but i love it at the same time.
my host brother has a new sex buddy too. i missed out. :( haha
also, i'm resisting making true friendships, going for guys over here because i know how painful it is to leave them in the end. so everyone i have here is a mere acquatence. i dunno. i should try to make good friends, but i just can't. especially after olimpija, chris, shannon/oaxacan host family/new puppy. too hard. so fuck them all
oh and i decided i'm going to peru for a week. i'm not going to the galapagos islands which i'm sure i'll regret when i'm old but it's just too expensive. and since i'm already mega broke i figure i should waste the last bits i have on peru. i'm sad i won't be seeing colombia though. and peru will only be for like 5 minutes. machu pichu, peruvian beers, and lima. and that's it. that's all i need. i think i'm gonna buy a plane ticket home for like march 26 or so. we shall see. plane tickets ruin my life. i'm gonna need to find a job basically the second i get back. lame. i hate job hunting.
my english grammer has gone down the whole. my whole life is spanish. and ecuadorian slang just isn't cool.
i went to the first professional soccer game of the season. i was seriously in heaven. i <3 soccer. and in latin america it's my favorite thing ever. EVER. seriously they go crazy, it was so much more fun than an la galaxy game. and only $5!!! and beer was only $2 for a liter. winwinwinwin
i loved that memory from ecuador^
then in the weekend i went to the amazon. like the legit jungle with trees and monkeys and jungle stuff.
me and this other guy and a girl with an eyebrow piercing (that's how i'm going to describe her from now on) went. okay so it took 2 hours to get from my side of the city to the other. h8 quito traffic. but i sat in the front of the taxi (taboo to do in latin america if you have a vagina) and me and the taxi driver became besties. he talked to me for the whole ride. 2 hours of solid spanish. he was interesting though...one of my more fun taxi rides in my life.
anyways, we get to the bus station and find a bus for the rainforest. it should have been a 6 hour ride in total so we were like SWEET. we get on the bus. and 3 hours in or so, the bus breaks down. NOT SWEET. so we wait for about an hour until we realize that the bus isn't going to get fixed anytime soon so we get out of the bus and start walking down the street. and this place is like...a forest. so it's desolate. and we're like oh nooooooo.
but a bus came on and we got on it without even caring where it was heading. about an hour in the bus, we realize it wasn't going to where we needed to go. so we stayed on it for an hour or so more and they dropped us off in this strange city that was also abandoned. so we go to this ghetto bus stop and wait for about 20 minutes and this truck comes by. it's literally a pick-up truck. i think it was a dodge. they told us it was a taxi so we were like whatevsies and got in with the rest of ecuador. there were 7 people in the truck.
and he drove like 90 miles an hour through the rainforest which was seriously so scary because there were some big cliffs. but it was cool because we went through a cloud forest and stuff. anyways that took about another hour and then we were finally in the city we were supposed to be at with the original bus. BLEH.
so we get off in the city and relax a little. i ate some of the grossest street food i've ever had in my life (i miss mexico) and then we got on yet another bus to go deep into the rainforest. anyways we get on that bus and the douche guy i was with made me sit alone so he could sit with the girl. not cool. i was eyeraped worse than i had ever been in my life. and the guy that sat next to me hit on me the entire time. i told him i was from argentina to practice my accents and to see if my spanish was good enough to pass as though from a native speaking spanish country. and he went along with it but then said i spoke too clearly and innunciated my accents and r's too well and that i was probably from mexico. winloose.
after an horu on that bus we get dropped off in the middle of the street. it's pitch black, like the blackest black ever because there are no stars because there are too many trees. we get lucky enough to find the place we were supposed to stay and get there and no one is there. it's desolate. and this was after 12 straight hours of travel time so we were like FUCK OUR LIVES.
then like 20 minutes later these people come stumbling back and they tell us that they've been taking some rainforest drink i forgot the name of. anyways what that drink is:
you dirnk about a shot of it.
then you puke about 15 times (minimum)
then you hallucinate
then you apparently see the future
then the shawman (i have no idea how to spell that) helps you through your visions to declare if they are real or not
then you come back to reality
anyways, they had all just taken that drink and were puking and stuff. fun times. we get our key and go to our room. then we drank 2 beers in the hammock listening to the bugs and jungle stuff and passed the eff out.
THEN we all woke up at 6:30am to get served breakfast. it was pancakes made out of plantains and fresh juice. yumz. then like 5 minutes later i got super sick. i dunno if it was the breakfast or exhaustion or bad water or what. but i was throwing up and more dizzy than i had ever been in my life. the dizziness sucked.
and it was right when we were scheduled to go on some hike with some jungleman (a shawman, they're called) but i was sick. the jungleman was like fuck it you should still go on the hike weak little city girl. so we start hiking and i'm like insanely dizzy and suffering.
then in the middle of the jungle he gets these special leaves out and explains to us their importance. then he spat on them and rubbed them all over my body. then he chanted and blew on me and spit on me some more. then he made me chew some special twig he found on the jungle floor and rubbed more leaves on me. and you know what was weird? 30 minutes later, i felt great.
JUNGLEMAGIC.
we ate lunch and went home that day. glad i went, but i don't think i wanna go to the jungle ever again.
but this weekend we're going to the beach. apparently it's full of maleria, of which i have never gotten pills/shots to prevent. so lets hope for the best this weekend. :)
this week i started my community service work too. i teach english at this really poor school on the outskirts of quito. they're little shits. i don't ever want to teach kids under the age of 10. fml it's so hard. but i love it at the same time.
my host brother has a new sex buddy too. i missed out. :( haha
also, i'm resisting making true friendships, going for guys over here because i know how painful it is to leave them in the end. so everyone i have here is a mere acquatence. i dunno. i should try to make good friends, but i just can't. especially after olimpija, chris, shannon/oaxacan host family/new puppy. too hard. so fuck them all
oh and i decided i'm going to peru for a week. i'm not going to the galapagos islands which i'm sure i'll regret when i'm old but it's just too expensive. and since i'm already mega broke i figure i should waste the last bits i have on peru. i'm sad i won't be seeing colombia though. and peru will only be for like 5 minutes. machu pichu, peruvian beers, and lima. and that's it. that's all i need. i think i'm gonna buy a plane ticket home for like march 26 or so. we shall see. plane tickets ruin my life. i'm gonna need to find a job basically the second i get back. lame. i hate job hunting.
my english grammer has gone down the whole. my whole life is spanish. and ecuadorian slang just isn't cool.