Day 16 - A normal day

Today was my second last day of clases. Monday my last, that means I extended for 3 days. The rest of the day I hung out at Kallari, doing homework, eating lunch. Later I may go for a drink with Victor and his friends Tomorrow I go to Mino, a very nice place with nature, rafting, and more cool stuff. So again a weekend of radio-silence. Mom, I'll probably call you on monday, because sunday I will be doing these cool things. But a happy mothers' day in advance!


Left: Mariela and me. / Right: Interior of café Kallari

Day 15: 6 May - Changing plans

Today I call Miguel Rendón to get to Guayaquil earlier. Not that I really want to, but I have no other choice at the moment. My study must begin as soon as possible. He arranged a place to stay for me in a couple of minutes. One of the people who work for him has a room for me, but I need to pay $300 for the month. They asked 400 at first, but that was really too much. I need to see how much time I need to prepare, but somewhere next week I will leave to Guayaquil. I can take 4 weeks to study there. Then I have 4 weeks left in Quito again in the chocolate factory.
This will leave me little time for the Galápagos. As well as little money. Good chance that I will visit the Galápagos of the poor - Isla de la Plata - instead.

Later I go out to buy some hiking shoes, because I’m going to Mindo this weekend. And I don’t want my current shoes to be totally destroyed at the end of the journey. However, the cheapest ones were $136 and that’s not really worth it for me either. I’ll need to see tomorrow for a different shop perhaps, or just buy some wellington boots.

Day 14: 5 May - Liberation day, yay

Today I helped Mariela again with her English. When we were done and I had to go, we agreed to go out that night. Since it was 5 may, I needed to drink a beer to freedom anyway. I couldn’t do all the things I needed to do, the lavanderia was already closed for example. But I had done my own homework at the café already, so I went back there again at 6.
Mariela was waiting outside with two of her friends for the last guests to leave, so she could lock up. While we were waiting, Sarah passed by and said they were going to a club later to do some salsa dancing. We would think about it, because some of the Ecuadorians were a little broke.
After closing the café, we went to another café to drink beer. We pass by a place with cheap canelazos, but it’s full, so we move on. When we get our beer somewhere else.
After a while we go check the place with the canelazos and there are seats free. So we go in and drink some more there. At about 10 O’clock, we go check on the place Sarah mentioned, but the entrance is 6 dollars and as I said, some of us were broke. We check several other places to dance and we dance in some of them. The last one being the weirdest. At the end only me and Mariela were left and we were at a place where mostly tourists were dancing like they were having dry sex. I felt quite ashamed to look at that.
At around 12, Mariela put me on the taxi again. Back home I felt that drinking lots of alcohol has a stronger effect at this altitude (2800 m.).