This weekend was pretty exciting...
On Saturday night, two other Americans and I ran/walked in the Correo de las Iglesias, a marathon through the city of Quito. It was very fun, although my lungs were burning like crazy when I was running. I´m still not adjusted to the altitude here. There were 5,000 people participating in the marathon and A LOT of crowd support. It was pretty cool.
Afterwards, we went with my family to the movie theater and saw rush hour 3... I didn´t like it very much, but my host mother and her boyfriend did.
Sunday morning my host mom and I walked around the park and did the aerobics in the park! It was a lot of fun! There is a little hill with the instructors and music and about 200 people of all ages around the hill doing the aerobics. I definitely want to do it every weekend. Sunday afternoon we had an invitation to my host mother´s other son´s apartment. We had coffee, tea, and dessert. It was really fun, although there was a lot of talk about politics. It was my mom, her enomorado, my brother Esteban, Miguel (other brother), Miguel´s wife Maria del Lourdes, her sister, mom, and Romina, the 2 year old daughter of Miguel and Maria de Lourdes. There is a vote for a government assembly coming up which will then compile a new constitution. Most people don´t really like the idea and aren´t going to vote... there has been a lot of instability in Ecuador with the government... 11 presidents in 15 years or something like that. The president right now, Correa, actually used to be a teacher at my school Universidad San Francisco de Quito. He is a Leftist and is buddies with Chavez and the Bolivian president, which the US probably doesn´t like too much since Hugo Chavez insults president bush all the time, calling him things like The devil or a donkey... So far people seem to like Correa though, so that´s good.
My rash is pretty much gone, so that´s good news..
The food is very good... lots of it too. Soup, salad, sandwiches, rice, beans, eggs, lots of juice, bananas, we had chinese food yesterday... there is a lot of variety.
Well, I´ve got to go! Miss you all!
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Julie! It sounds like you are having such a great time! I can't believe you ran a marathon, that is pretty crazy... I am happy that there is plenty of food for you, you know I was concerned about that (along with probably everyone else). I definitely look forward to hearing more about your trip, host family, aerobics in the park... Good luck, I will talk to you soon!
Hi Julie!
Running marathons now eh? Between that, hiking, and aerobics you will be in such great shape. Your family, the house, and the university sound wonderful - we are looking forward to seeing pictures of it all!
The issues with Equador's government sound like that will be a whole education for you in itself. It's unfortunate that there is so much discord between the government and the people, and that the primary way they can voice opposition is to not vote.
Keep the posts coming - it's great to hear what's going on with you!
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