"Me gusta FUNK"

Not having a computer really really sucks. But I´m at the Mall El Jardín using their compus, at the rate of $2/hour. Bleh.

I met Annie´s Ecuadorian friends the other day! They´re in a funk band and we went to see them rehearse, then we went to some bar in Guápulo to hang out. They were all so cool (and cute?!). By the end of the night, I was a Spanish master and I was happy to have made some friends!

Classes are good... we´re learning about the origins of Ecuadorian feminism in my gender class (did you know that abortion is illegal in Ecua? It was legal for a long long time, but the current president, Correa, changed the constitution and made it illegal. Crazy!) and about the financial crisis/dollarization of Ecuador in my social problems class. It´s all really cool.

I think I´ll be able to finish my Spanish major this year (at least, theoretically, if none of the classes I want to take next semester overlap...) save for one lame literature of Spain class that I´ll have to take when I get back to MSU. I could also theoretically graduate a semester early, but because I want to graduate with two degrees, I have to complete 151 credits or something, and that requires me to take about 16 credits per semester for the next three semesters. Wah wah.

What else? Oh, I sound like a jackass every time I talke to José. Every time I open my mouth, something stupid comes out. Bleh. Rosita and I have a heart-to-heart every time I eat almuerzo. I have a stupid sunglasses-nose-tan. Ugh. They play SUPER silly music in the mall. Today I heard a Spanish version of ¨"Tainted Love," a soppy pop version of "The Day the Music Died," some Hall & Oates, and right this exact moment is a reggae version of "Knockin´on Heaven´s Door."

Oh! We´re going to Tiputini Biodiversity Station on Thursday! Yay! Four days in the jungle!
http://www.usfq.edu.ec/tiputini/index.html
I just bought a backpack and some quick-drying pants, but I have to get a flashlight and socks. Excellent.

I really want to go see "Lluvia de Hamberguesas" (AKA "Rain of Hamburgers" AKA "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs). That´s all I have to say right now.

Chao,
Gina.