I thought I was going to start this blog a loooong time ago, but the past few weeks have been a little busy to say the least. In the past seven days, I have been in Russia, the Czech Republic, Belgium, Spain, Colombia, and now Ecuador! It's been a crazy, wonderful, intellectually stimulating adventure thus far, but my schedule hasn't left much "me" time, let alone time to write and update a blog. I have many stories to share (and I'll try to do so in real time now along with stories from Russia retroactively). I'm writing this blog as much for me as for my friends and family so that I'll have a vivid, living documentation of my travels from 17 May to 21 August.
If you want a quick update on some of my travels, here are the links to my IDS articles. I'll be writing one each week as the "foreign correspondent" for the paper.
http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=68368
http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=68453
Right now, I'm about to go out for a nighttime tour of Quito (yes it's 7:05 here and the sun has already set...the only downside to being at the equator at this time of year) and then to a salsa/discotek. I'm excited to see the city--last night my host family took me on a tour, but not too much was going on. They're an older couple and tend to stay near the house. The father is a professor of information systems at the local university, and the mother is an ama de casa, which works well for me because I have a friend to play cards with every day when I come home. Okay, well I'll post more soon...and pictures!
As the Ecuadorians say, Ciao Ciao!
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