Back down again

Last day of school!

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March 2nd 2007
Quite predictably I was not awake for school today. However we managed to be reasonably on time (meaning that my teacher was even later so I could pretend I´d been there for ages!) Did the past tense finally - kind of need it to have a conversation - and then went out to a fruit market in order to ´practise my Spanish´. I got some interesting fruit anyway - basically bought anything I didn´t r ... read more

South America » Ecuador » North » Quito

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The "Republic of the Equator" was one of three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others are Colombia and Venezuela). Between 1904 and 1942, Ecuador lost territories in a series of conflicts with its neighbors. A b... ... read more