i leave tmrw for a month in the rainforest! i will have internet so i´ll keep updating with all the crazy plants and animals i see!

10/22 Wed: got back from the Galapagos and we walked home from the airport will all our luggage and ct tripped in the middle of an intersection and she went ALL the way down ahaha. She cut her knee and I was like do u need some Neosporin so we did that on the street! Morgan just left, we were like wtf! Dinner with the family and talked about ( Read more... )

Thursday: classes, got my toes done with ct. Carlos came over and watched Bella with me. Then we went to pick ct up to go to mariscal. When we were looking for parking three of his guy friends jammed in the backseat with ct. they were really drunk and were cursing in Spanish a lot. One really liked ct. we went to chupitos and met up with Renee, ( Read more... )

so a lot has happened. the week before los piqueros, things got serious with carlos and we´re now officially boyfriend and girlfriend. eek! i do not want to leave quito again but i will have to in my program which really sucks. i think i may be falling in love, but i have no idea what that even means or feels like. we´ll see ( Read more... )

saturday night: went to mariscal with morgan and ct for dinner. we had AMAZING mexican food. then we met up with catherine, renee, and becca and tried to get drinks at a mongolian grill. only me and catherine got drinks and then we make the horrible decision to go to moricio's house, who is catherine's boy. we get there and theres like a circle of ( Read more... )

its saturday evening and i´m in the internet cafe because i thought i had a skype date with my mom but she bailed. lame i havent talked to her in three weeks. ahahah whatevs ( Read more... )

sunday: sat around and basically did nothing. tried to tan but got bit by chiggers, mosqiots, and some gnats. i think i have over 30 bites that still are not healed and are still itchy!!  had lunch and then walked down the mountain to take the bus back to quito. just went home and forgot spanish for a good half and hour! urgh not fun talking to my ( Read more... )

lets just say my date with carlos went well. after drinking in ct´s garden and getting in trouble with the security guards, we went to a discoteca called bungalow and met up with catherine and her boy, moricio, who is an ecuadorian skater boy! ahha ( Read more... )

sunday: trip to the highest active volcano in the world: cotopaxi! it was amazing! we took our bus with kelly´s ecuadorian grad students and collected data as we went up the paramo to the ice line. when we got to the top, it was snowing! mindfuck, we were on the equator and its snowing! crazy. the grad students were fun too. ahah slept on the way ( Read more... )

Friday: ecology trip to Papallacta, which is a volcano with famous thermal hot springs. we made a few stops along the way to visit different types of vegetation as we go up in altitude. we stopped at a polylepus forest and made our way down the side of a mountain to get into the valley. it was an elfin forest and it was amazing. we also went to the ( Read more... )