Oh, hey everyone out there in blag-o-land. Sorry I haven't updated in a while, but I got my new computer a couple weeks ago or something, and I had to read ALL the Vice Magazine DOs and DON'Ts and all the new XKCD comics and be obsessed with Facebook for a while and tweet excessively.
What has happened?
Bess, Annie, Scarlett, and I went to Mindo for the weekend a couple weeks ago. We stayed in a really cute hostel (La Casa de Cecilia) and went ziplining, waterfall-ing, and tubing. We ended up tubing with this couple from England who had just quit their jobs, sold their house, and was traveling around the world for a year. I think about them often, and I hope they're having a really fun time.
Pre-zipline with my favoritesAnd then we had a long weekend during Halloween because of Día de los Difuntos, which is basically the Day of the Dead. There's not Halloween here (President Correa outlwed it...) so Annie and I went to Canoa (another beach!!) with Eli. Leslie, Cameron, Dave, Brent, and Cameron's host brother Xavier were there too, and we spent a lot of time with them. The first day was sunny and beautiful, and the next days were cloudy. On the last day there were tons of clouds, but I got super tan anyway. I have never been so tan in my life, it's like I changed races. When I came home, Rita called me "Negrita." Hahaha.
We had our evenings timed out so we hit three consecutive happy hours beginning at 5PM and ending at like 9PM. We hung out with surfers, went to bonfires, played board games and Egyptian Rat Screw (hello, sophomore year at Dondero!), at pizza with bananas on it, drank caña straight (not something I would recommend), and had a generally good time.
Annie, Brent, Xavier, me, and Cameron sitting in a hole at Canoa
[cred: Leslie]
What else? Oh, I'm sick. I HATE BEING SICK. SO MUCH. Annie and I intended to go to a museum of medicine yesterday but we couldn't even find the street it was on. We ended up finding a book sale and she bought Harry Potter III and I bought Twlight. BEFORE YOU JUDGE I wanted to get Twilight because 1) it will be easy to read in Spanish, and 2) I feel like I'm missing out on a whole part of Culture of the Two-Thousandses by not having read it. So although it's angsty and not that great, I'm reading it anyway.
That's it. I'm gonna keep reading my book and Rita is making me tea.
Chao,
Gina.
We had our evenings timed out so we hit three consecutive happy hours beginning at 5PM and ending at like 9PM. We hung out with surfers, went to bonfires, played board games and Egyptian Rat Screw (hello, sophomore year at Dondero!), at pizza with bananas on it, drank caña straight (not something I would recommend), and had a generally good time.
Annie, Brent, Xavier, me, and Cameron sitting in a hole at Canoa[cred: Leslie]
What else? Oh, I'm sick. I HATE BEING SICK. SO MUCH. Annie and I intended to go to a museum of medicine yesterday but we couldn't even find the street it was on. We ended up finding a book sale and she bought Harry Potter III and I bought Twlight. BEFORE YOU JUDGE I wanted to get Twilight because 1) it will be easy to read in Spanish, and 2) I feel like I'm missing out on a whole part of Culture of the Two-Thousandses by not having read it. So although it's angsty and not that great, I'm reading it anyway.
That's it. I'm gonna keep reading my book and Rita is making me tea.
Chao,
Gina.
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