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Published: August 12th 2009
August 10, 2009 - Montanita, Ecuador
We always stay one day longer in a place than we should, and I'm glad. That way, we don't feel like we've missed out on something or left something undone, and are eager to move on.
Today, the skies are gray, changing the festively crazy look of Montanita, its 60s-like street vendors, and its topsy turvy collection of thatched-roof and bamboo hostals, int...
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Gloria Gritz
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Thanks!
I quite loved this informative, touching-in-places entry. And here in Minnesota, where some of our schools have a huge Latino/poverty presence, the children come to school much cleaner and better dressed than their equally poor gringo peers. I am told it is because school is considered such a privilege. On the down side, it takes some work to get parents involved in their children's learning since they assume school is the sole province of the teachers and don't want to interfere.