Domingo!

Its been a week that I've been in Ecuador today! Seems like I've been here for only a few nights, but so much has happened. The meals, the sleeping habits, the language...soo much is different but soo good. I love how everyone greets eachother, even though I'm the stranger, I'm always welcomed as part of the family. Today I got to sleep in :), we went to another huge market and another grocery store. The stores have a lot of different food and cool weird fruit. I'm getting used to the family and the customs. Its so fun to slowly pick up more and more spanish. The more I learn the more I feel like I don't know. My house mom and my sisters have said that my spanish has progressed a lot since I first got here. So exciting!!:)

Yesterday I went to the park with Gabby and Bruno (the dog). The walk was really nice and there were tons of families in the park having picnics and little old men with coolers walking around selling icecream.  To get to the park we cross over a little river. Cuenca is unique in so many ways one of which there are 3 (or 4) rivers running through and around the city.

I love how the biggest meal of the day is at lunch and they have small little breakfasts and dinners and coffee in the morning and coffee or tea in the evening. After lunch when school and work are off for a couple of hours everyone goes home and takes short siestas.

Tonight I got to go to church with Marcela and Isa. The first song they played was 'rain down' so fitting for living in Cuenca when it rains all the time! All the songs were amazing and I knew all of them. (but in english) Worship was awesome. The message was good of what I could make of it. The church is christian denomination and its GIGANTIC! I felt so at home there, I'm so happy that I could find a church!:)

It's been a terrific first week! My program advisors have been telling me to take advantage of these first 2 weeks because it's gonna get a lot crazier once the 18 other spring semester students arrive.

I made Maddy's famous oreo chocolate balls for the family tonight! They loved it!