Rain and shine

Quick update - We have been staying with some friends from Spanish class. They rented us a room at $20 for the week! The apartment is new and on the mountain. Our window looks up at Pinchincha, the volcano in Quito. We take a really crowded bus to school every morning. Tomorrow is the last day of school, and we are off to Baños and the jungle for a week or so. We have to come back to Quito to pick up some mail, then we are off again to the coast, Cuenca and Loja where we will start the farm. The climate should be nice in Loja.

Things are great. We even figured out how to get money from a bank teller rather than the ATM today. We aren't too sick any more, we eat a lot of chocolate, we are cooking for ourselves now - a blessing, and we are practicing Spanish every day. Tonight we may go grab a beer with our teachers. As they say, drinking makes your Spanish better (or as my dad says, one beer makes your Spanish better and any more makes you forget all of your vocabulary). We'll see how it goes.

Otherwise, we are just living here. Still dodging traffic. It rains every afternoon. I keep forgetting that it's winter here.

Love,
Lauren