Chiva

This week hasn´t been too eventful. I´ve had class, I obtained my censo card that is pretty much just another form of identification for me in Ecuador.. my picture for the censo card is the absolute worst picture ever! I wasn´t really ready for the photo, and before I knew it, the man had already taken it which resulted in me looking seriously ill in my photo. Oh well.
I went to a movie earlier in the week called Perfume.. it was a strange movie.. it´s based on a book and it has a generally good story, but it´s very interesting...not what I expected.
Yesterday was pretty hillarious.. I had class until 5:30 and then I met up with a few friends to go to this club called Gia. It has a really shady entrance in a side of a concrete wall. It was an american girl´s birthday so she rented a Chiva, which is a double decker party bus. When we arrived, the Chiva looked more like a dump truck with decorations on it. We all decided to go on top and the Chiva drivers provided us with ecuadorian flags, whistles, and shot glass necklaces. We drove around town for about half an hour with music blasting and a bus full of gringos and then ended back at Gia. It was pretty hillarious. I tried to capture it as best as I could with my camera, but i really didn´t do it justice.

Gia was a strange club... it was supposed to be ladies night where we drank and got in for free, but we missed it i guess. Then the guys were seperated, literally caged off from the girls until midnight... the club´s layout was pretty chic, but its not my favorite, and it was really expensive. I think the guys had to pay $12 just to get in?
Tomorrow I may be going to mindo, where there is a cloudforest, otherwise i´ll walk around the centro (downtown) all day. Then on Sunday, I´m going to two volcanoes! We leave at 3 am for Pinchinca, where you can see pretty much all of ecuador from the top... and then at 9 am we go to Papallacta, where very nearby are some thermal springs that we will enjoy after our investigations.. It should be really fun and my professor for volcanologia is absolutely hillarious.
I also bought a soccer ball today on the street so I can start practicing! yay!
Well, I miss you all and I´ll try to take more pictures and keep up with this blog!