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  Our program just got back last week from a trip to Cuenca and the surrounding area, so I should really blog about that.  Yet I have a bit of a blog backlog that I should really take care of, so for now, I will instead post about a previous trip:
( But all you really want are photos right? )

    So one thing I need to do to make this a genuine, honest-to-goodness blog with the International Education Office´s stamp of approval is to answer this question: what did you assume before you left that you are not finding in your host-country?
    Yarn.  I thought there would be yarn.  Glorious fluffy skeins of pure alpaca and maybe even llama ( Read more... )

( This is how my classmates spent the day )

    After we were all shopped out, everyone headed back on the bus to head back to Quito, but not before we visited Cuicocha Lake and Cotacachi.

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    Okay, lets try this again, shall we?

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    So I thought this had autosaved my partially completed Otavalo post, but apparently I was wrong, and now I'm too tired to go back and write it all up for tonight.  Instead I present to you a jam that is WAY too good to settle for the likes of you.

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