Blogs from Cuenca, South, Ecuador, South America - page 50

Its Rich calling and oh yes, i have a camera. And i didnt need to sell a kidney to get it, although I could have live here for a month on that money. Ah well, the moral to this story is don´t put delicate electronics in rivers. Lots of fun has been had of late, and after four weeks of intensive language tuition i have learned one thing above all else. I cant speak Spanish, although I´m getting pretty good at Spanglish. Now when i try to converse with the locals they insult me in Spanish! Hooray! Update for Friday. In the morning I endured a visit to a Panama hat factory. Here we witnessed the really quite impressive spectacle of people hand making hats, at huge cost in man hours, for people to buy without ... read more

Yo yo, tis Rich. Jen and I decided to celebrate the theft of our day sack (along with my MP3 player, damnit) in style. It was clear after Cuenca got through the quarter final on agregate (see entry GOOOOAAL) that we would have to track down the semi final against the frankly much better Liga Quito, and watch the plucky Cuencan team get the sound thrashing that was coming to them. Fortunately, we didnt have far to go, it was in Cuenca again. Along with our school buddies Addie and Mora, we decided to go in style this time, and get hammered. Half a bottle of rum each later, washed down with some rum from bars along the way, we finally made it to the stadium. What can I say? Brilliant, that´s what. Fuelled heavily with ... read more

Hey there amigos, it´s rich today we made our merry way across the river for the mighty first anniversary celebration of a shopping mall. Many fliers had been spied regarding the event around town and it seemed like a damn fine way to spend a morning. Festivities were to begin at 10 am sharp, and would culminate with a fantastic 500m (oh yes, half a kilometre) sandwich. Tempted by the prospect of ridiculous food we sallied forth with our gallant fellow students Mora, Addie and Shawn, and arrived on the dot. Well, what can I say about the sandwich? false advertising would suit, as would massively disappointing. No sign of a Ron Jeremyesqe mighty sandwich, but merely a huge number of normal ones on a table (they were quite big to be fair, but far from ... read more

Hurrah! Hurrah for the first time we have been able to celebrate independence Day with true Americans! The best thing about the US getting their independence from us is that otherwise President Bush would actually be something to do with blighty. Well, anyway, the day opened with our first day of Spanish classes. Four hours of mega intensive learning, heavy going indeed. However, we all had time for some comedy relief when rich mistakenly announced that he really liked drinking penis juice. haha! (he meant pineapple juice by the way). The stress of this made us head straight to a posh restaurant with an all you can eat American buffet. I finally know what ´meatloaf´is now, and its actually really good. Rich managed to take the all you can eat to extremes and was unable move ... read more

A very nice city! Although I was pissing out my ass and sick for in bed 3 days, so i didn't really get to truly experience the city.....I'm sure it's nice thougn?... read more