In case there are people who read this and do not know that I am leaving in January to Nicaragua to be a Peace Corps Volunteer...um, I am.  I thought to reflect this change in my life I would have to become more professional in my blogging since I am representing the U.S. government (though any opinions I state are my own, not the government's or ( Read more... )

  Everyone told me that about around October the rains in Quito would start, and that they would arrive consistently every afternoon.  Around October they did start...and then stopped; it's been pretty dry, which is nice in that I don't have to walk through the rain when I go out, it's not so nice in that about 42% of Ecuador's energy comes from ( Read more... )

  So I just about had the most frustrating skype experience of my life.  My microphone suddenly decided to die on me a while back so I have been using my sister Lorena's computer with her microphone thingy and camera, which works well except for the part where I have to awkwardly kick Lorena out of her own room for about an hour.  I had scheduled a ( Read more... )

Spent today being batted around by my insurance company.  They won't give me an over-ride so I can have all the medication I need on hand before I go out of the country.  But instead of just telling me outright they sent me to my pharmacy who sent me to my doctor who sent me to my pharmacy who sent me to my insurance company.  I feel like they are ( Read more... )

I just spent the last thirty minutes typing up an entry and then as I went to spellcheck, it deleted itself.  After fuming, I decided that this is a great metaphor for the visa application process, one tries hard and does everything seemingly right only to be slapped in the face by absurdity and regulations.  So I shall continue this entry once ( Read more... )