Cuenca, Ecuador

Cuenca
January 21, 2008 - Cuenca, Ecuador
Hola, I meant to make another entry by now, but I have been pretty disconnected from home. There is internet access at the language school, but it is really slow. Also, I don't like to take my computer to class every day. I live about 10 blocks from the school, and it takes about 20 minutes to walk here. Some people walk 40 minutes to...
Placed by Dave in Gateway to Latin America

Goodbye Cuenca
September 15, 2007 - Cuenca, Ecuador
I'm off to Santiago tomorrow, so I wanted to write a final update from Cuenca. It has been a really wonderful week, and I'm sad that it went by so quickly. Silly me, thinking a week would be enough... Here's a funny conversation I had Thurs night with two aunts of the family. It all started because I was telling them that sometimes I say...
Placed by Emmy in Shalom de Chile

I'm here!
September 10, 2007 - Cuenca, Ecuador
I'm here, I'm here, I'm here!!!! Wow. :D After traveling more than 3,200 miles to Guayaquil and then Cuenca, I'm still in the same time zone as when I started! Right now I'm at an Internet cafe on my block (80 cents per hour!), which didn't exist when I was here before. I've only been in Ecuador for 18 hours, but it just as easily could have...
Placed by Emmy in Shalom de Chile

El viaje de enfermedades
April 26, 2007 - Cuenca, Ecuador
So what have I been doing for the past month that I haven’t possibly been able to update my blog? Well I went on a technical trip, which more correctly should be called a sickness trip. So on this trip, there were 6 of us trainees, 2 Spanish facilitators, and our boss – more or less. And everything was going grand until this one morning...
Placed by Anna in Ecuatori Anna

Time to leave Ecuador....
March 16, 2007 - Cuenca, Ecuador
First and foremost let’s get this out of the way.... ¨The admissions committee was faced with a much larger applicant pool this year than in year’s past. Due to the high degree of selectivity in the applicant pool and the increase in overall applications, there were a group of candidates that were unable to be offered full admission at...
Placed by Hutch in Freedom at last...