Here I can't begin to let you know how much stuff I can buy with one dollar. Large water bottle= 30 cents. pan (home made bread..that they have every block)= 18 or 25 cents. bubble gum= 40 cents bag of cooked veggies=50 cents...the list goes on..a meal at one of my favorite restaurants=$1.10 some almuerzo places lunch= $1.50 its craziness. Taxi=2 dollars...woa!..haha manicure= 3 dollars...pedicure= 4 dollars....hair colored= $ 25...massage for 2 hours= $ 17...now this is the LIFE!
I'm gonna miss the crazy good fruits here there's this one called the granadilla....out of this world! consistency of boogers or fisheggs...but tastes like sweet heaven.It has sweet little crunchy edible seeds in it and it is magical. It looks like a little orange kinda and you have to suck out the sweet goodness from inside...next is sapote..its looks like a weird brown kinda oval coconut on the outside..but its kinda soft ..you can cut it and on the inside its bright orange. It tastes like a mango slash pumpkin ..almost. its soooo goood. Has seeds that are big like an apricot.
mami and sapote
valentines day when we went out for din din..big deal! the family never goes out!
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My dear friend Lisa has not been having the best of luck lately...She's our coordinator that lost her grandmother not too long ago. This past weekend when her group went cayoning..(they went sunday..we went saturday) She after jumping off the rocks into the water broke her foot. She fractured it in two places and will be in a cast and on crutches for the next six weeks.. Cuenca, with cobblestone and lots of stairs where she lives ...not so fun on crutches! Pray that Lisa will be able to make it through mentally and that she will have all of us to fall back on when she needs it. Today we went to SUSHI!!!!!!!!!!!!.. for lunch!! Than we helped her with her laundry and took it to the cleaners with her.
I HAVE BEEN CRAVING SUSHI SINCE I GOT HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!
It was so so so good!!! So happy we found it! Its right by the river and is super close to our school!:):)
lisa and tallie
me and flo (today at lunch)
little sashimi...but sashimi nonetheless!!
tempura yummmm
gimpy
thought i'd sneek a little pic while in the cab..we take these a lot when we need to be somewhere fast or somewhere far..or i take the bus only 25 cents (bus)
Today we had to be back at three so we grabbed a cab.
yesterday
yesterday was AWESOME. Hung out with my friend Paul, who is a veteran spring semester student. He was here last spring and has definatley gotten around Cuenca to say the least. He knows the city pretty well and is a spanish and french major so he can speak pretty fluently. I met up because he is friends with this guy in the San Fransisco market where you can get good deals. Everyone in the market will get around the same prices but if you know the right people you go behind all the open market vendors and upstairs into a wharehouse type deal. We went and met Unberto, our salesman.:) I got some beautiful baby alpaca blankets that are soo soft I never want to stop petting them. hhaha. I will definitely be going back there.
After we cruised over to Paul's to have a little cafecito and ran into some friends. Cuenca is a lot smaller than I thought! I saw this girl Dana who was in a yoga class that I took and than Paul's neighbor was Tinto another guy that was also in the yoga class and his son Tomas! We hung out outside of Pauls house and this swiss guy that was walkin by ended up joining us for a little cafe. So there were three languages being thrown around as we sat in Pauls place above the river. We enjoyed the small breeze that came through every so often as we sat close in a small european style apartment. His place had a small balcony over looking the river and has a great view of Cuenca and some of the mountains. I want to come back and paint at his house. We went downstairs to Tinto's house and I got to see all of his work He loves to write but is a fantastic artist. He has some incredible paintings. The colors he uses are brilliant and the faces of the people he has in his portraits are so precise. He said that he gives his son lessons and I am welcome to join anytime! I'm super excited. They go to the same yoga that Jenny and I went to every Tues and Thurs.
On my way out I ran into the intructor of our yoga class...haha he was headed to Tinto's house. So I literally saw everyone that went to the yoga class..haha I guess its just friends that go to it..( We thought we were unnoticeable ...two gringas just hoppin in on the class)
Not sure how often I'll go to their yoga its five bucks every time...But I already paid for a month of capoeira so I def went to that last night! I'm getting better and am thinking about it more while i'm not there..!!!! ahh addicting!
We leave for Montanita..this beack town on Friday for the huge 4 day festival. Basically its a lot of water and craziness. I'm a little scared.. This place is known to be a crazy party place even when its not Carnival. Carnival is the biggest party of the year. So people in Montanita..that party till eight in the morning alrready...will just not sleep enitrely I guess...haha We get back on Monday and ....
Next Wednesday.... we are headed to the Galapagos~!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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