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Published: July 20th 2010
Oh Quito,
The first night was spent in a hostal which I d believe doubled as a brothel, from the sights and sounds of things. Also, an absolute chorus of angry dogs brking at all hours. Oh yes, also the sounds of airplanes taking off and a big street. Anyway, I got in and rested for a long time, meditated,went back to the airport, got my luggge (!), and have otherwise been trying to navigate and practice Spanish. Upon realization of my language inadequacies, I registerred for two weeks of language school in Cusco, to be followed by tutoring as it comes up.
I have noticed that in Ecuador the busses leave behind a ton of exaust, that everyone is at least neutral (most people are friendly, other intent on ignoring me, but not as much as in LA), no is necessarily creepy. For the most part, I don´t know that I´m in a foreign country other than everyone speaks spanish, and the taxis drive super fast. Crossing the street is like a mission.
For tonight I found a hostal with lots of plants and so far no dogs.
I am tryng not to be attached to my goals, but I´m afraid of overspending and hostals marketed for 8 dollars turn out to be 20. Things like that are making me nervous about having come so early, but I´m pretty sure it will all be ok.
Tomorrow I´m heading to Vipassana (hopefully), and early August I´m going to Cuzco. Unfortunatey the farm I was going to visit and help harvest coffee on hasn´t returned my communication, so It look like I won´t be going there this time around. Oh well.
Hope you all are well, and I´d adore hearing from you!
Con una sonrisa,
Susannah
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Rhiannon
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Buena suerte, Susannah bella! It sounds like you've already run into all kinds of tumbles to your plans. Don't worry: there's no way you can spend as much as I did! I imagine you're already at your vipassana course and enjoying it so that by the time you're back out you will have grappled with deep things and come into lightness. I hope it has been wonderful for you. If it doesn't sound too "teach-y" let me tell you to have infinite patience and humor with your language learning. You can put in work and more and more work for months only to find that one day, much later than you thought it would, everything clicks. For the record, I absolutely cannot understand Ecuadorian Spanish, so if you master that you'll be my hero :) Love and Blessings, Rhiannon