So here I am in a webcafe in Quito fighting off a hangover of Hemingwayesque porportions, and trying to figure out where to start............ 5 minutes later and the lightbulb is still very much off, so I guess I´ll just be abrupt. Just over two weeks ago I departed from Toronto at two in the afternoon, by midnight I was in a whole new world. Despite my attempts to study Spanish at home, my attempt to spark a conversation with the cabbie from the airport was poor at best, although when I brought up futbol, the true universal language, the conversation took a turn for the better. Next thing I was in the hostal watching a poor Eric Roberts movie (I couldn´t believe it either) dubbed over in Spanish and then I was asleep. The
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