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Wed, 19 Oct 2011 | By zapatosrojos | Views [358]
My arch nemesis, the shower. It has attitude. It
does not give up a good shower easily. Basically, it warms up to scorching then
goes back down to ice. I've counted, I get 25 seconds from its ascendency to
warmth to its descent to ice when I can ... Read more >
Wed, 19 Oct 2011 | By zapatosrojos | Views [439]
Day 1 of lessons and profesora Monica may already
be feeling wary. There are 3 of us in the class, Rikkito, Iain from Liverpool
and myself. Iain has been travelling for 4 months and has opted for a 1 week
course to sharpen up on what he has learnt ... Read more >
Wed, 12 Oct 2011 | By zapatosrojos | Views [446]
Papa plays the accordian, since childhood, so this evening we were serenaded over dinner by tunes from around the world. Up beat tunes from various south American countries, including the Argentinian tango, followed by a sad tune accompanied by mama ... Read more >
Wed, 12 Oct 2011 | By zapatosrojos | Views [679]
Now, there's a danger in making leaps of logic with another language. Just because a word can be used in 2 ways in your own lingua does not mean it can also do the same in another language. Richito is getting ahead of himself with his dictionary. Sunday ... Read more >
Wed, 12 Oct 2011 | By zapatosrojos | Views [443]
Sunday dawned bright and early and mama and papa prepared for church. After some confusion, whereby mama thought we were also coming to church and looked somewhat shocked that we were not, it was decided that we would go the Panecilla hill which holds ... Read more >
Wed, 12 Oct 2011 | By zapatosrojos | Views [511]
As we were obviously at a loose end on Friday, mama decided we should go shopping to the super maxi with papa at 11 o'clock. We were ready and vamos, again without mama.There was a theme developing here. Papa has decided to just talk at us presumably ... Read more >
Wed, 12 Oct 2011 | By zapatosrojos | Views [379]
In a wonderful fulfilment of non understanding, Friday morning was chaos. From our woeful understanding we took it that we were off to school Friday to meet our teachers, with Mama. Vamos at 8.a.m. had Rikki and I running for bags, coats, hats, scarves ... Read more >
Wed, 12 Oct 2011 | By zapatosrojos | Views [447] | Comments [1]
Our hosts are delightfully dotty. There are 3 locks to get past to get from outside to our room and due to a linguistic breakdown, Papa decided to role play entering the casa. We had to follow the steps through the use of each key, but as we had politely, ... Read more >
Wed, 12 Oct 2011 | By zapatosrojos | Views [398]
Friday 7th October was the big match between Ecuador and Venezuela held here in Quito at the Olympic stadium. Crowds started gathering at the stadium at 9.a.m. for a 4.p.m. kick off and there was a party feeling in the town as crowds mooched around ... Read more >
Wed, 12 Oct 2011 | By zapatosrojos | Views [416]
Friday 7th October was the big match between Ecuador and Venezuela held here in Quito at the Olympic stadium. Crowds started gathering at the stadium at 9.a.m. for a 4.p.m. kick off and there was a party feeling in the town as crowds mooched around ... Read more >
Wed, 12 Oct 2011 | By zapatosrojos | Views [341]
Bums are big in Ecuador - they are a fashion statement; none of this european business of discreetly covering or hiding the bum, here, tops are at the waist for the full bum sensation; and jeans are styled to maximise the shape of the flesh, the ones ... Read more >
Fri, 7 Oct 2011 | By ecuador | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
Travelling to one of the poorest region of the world had a huge impact on my perception of life. The trip gave me a chance to realise that the obsession to make more MONEY, to have better THINGS, more THINGS is wrong. Life should not concentrate on a ...
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Tags: #2011wnphoto, travel photography scholarship 2011
Sat, 24 Sep 2011 | By colleen_finn | Views [1482]
The time has finally come—our last full day in Ecuador. The day after our excursion to Isla de la Plata, we flew back to Quito so we could catch a plane the following day for home. Flying from Manta to Quito is a difference of over 9000 feet, which ... Read more >
Tags: adventures, planes trains & automobiles, sightseeing
Tue, 20 Sep 2011 | By colleen_finn | Views [2018]
After enjoying a week playing on the beach and in the surf, we opted to spend our last day on Ecuador's coast in Puerto Lopez, a sleepy fishing town about two hours south of Manta. It wasn't really the town we were interested in, but a trip to Isla ... Read more >
Tags: adventures, sightseeing
Sun, 18 Sep 2011 | By colleen_finn | Views [1600]
There are challenges, and there are challenges. For example, not speaking the language is a challenge. Learning a new sport while trying to overcome a phobia that I've had since childhood is an entirely different challenge. I mentioned in my first ... Read more >
Tags: adventures
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