Wednesday, March 4, 2009

We had a cuarenta tournament. Cuarenta is the big Ecuador card game, mostly from Quito. It’s complicated in a weird way in that it has tons of little rules but isn’t that hard to pick up. I’ll have to teach it to everyone when I get home. It’s a partner game if you play with four, so I paired with Denise. We won the first round but had to play the second against Adam and Alberto, which wasn’t fair since Alberto is my Spanish teacher, from Quito. So we lost that one but did pretty well. The teachers actually served us shots (canelo I think its called with liquor but not very much) while we were playing, so it was definitely one of those moments when I realized studying abroad in Ecuador was totally different from at home.