Thursday, March 5, 2009

Today we had class until 4 since it was a lecture day (the ethnohistory of the Amazon rainforest, in Spanish). After class I went to the market with Zohar and Denise to find some good rainforest pants – pants that would dry quickly. I didn’t really find any so I got some light sweatpants, but they were only 9 dollars so not bad, I’ll use them. Zohar and I bought guacamole ingredients, and brought them to my house with tortilla chips (which they call nachos here). It turned out pretty good. They only have guacamole here when they eat tacos, which is not very often since its not Ecuadorian at all, so I wanted some with chips. Most of them liked it, but Mimi just ate the chips with lemon juice.

Zohar and I went to visit Amanda down the road, and while we were there the power went out. It was awesome – we had dinner (lunchmeat sandwiches with hot chocolate) by candlelight. Amanda’s host brother walked us back to our house even though it’s less than a minute down the road. The stars were amazing. Usually you can’t see them since we’re in the Quito suburbs and there are tons of lights all the time. The outage was huge – most of us lost power and we’re pretty spread out. At my house I looked at the stars with my host dad and showed him Orion and what may possible have been the little dipper, and my host mom wanted to have us tell scary stories but the rest of them didn’t want to (which sucked, that would have been great and they never do anything like that). I was starving since I’d hardly eaten anything all day, so I ate dinner again with them, rice and hot dog this time, again by candlelight. Lights came back on around 9:30 and we went to bed.