so, this comes from an extremely slow computer here in cuenca, ecuador. see how good i´m being, blogging on my second day?! maybe i blog now. what a blogger i am. blog.
anyway, cuenca is great. actually, so far, ecuador as a whole is pretty great. its pretty, bumpy, and green, and the people give new definition to the word nice. i never really thought i liked nice people, not being a particularly nice person myself, but it turns out that i didnt really know what nice meant. it turns out, i think, that nice means putting your drink down and giving up your comfortable seat in a crowded cafe to scramble on your hands and knees to help some barrachito pick up the change he spilled all over the floor. nice means putting your hand on your stomach, after a long night of waiting tables in a busy restaurant, and looking an out-of-place tourist straight in the eye to say humbly, "con mucho gusto", without even checking the tip. nice means smiling kindly at a voyeuristic tourist while urinating on the wall of a church.
not to be corny, but we don´t see this often in new york, ¿now do we?
cuenca is filled with churches, plazas, and cobblestones. there is a pretty comprhensive indigenous market, which offers very cheap almuerzos, which are not entirely sanitary, which is where we ate everywhere. the juices and batidos come in all flavors, and empanadas are unbeatable. i like it here, i think. sadly (pathetically), i feel the altitude, or i am coming down with something. my bones ache and i get winded climbing a flight of stairs, which is not my normal state. the alarming thing is that cuenca is not really considered to be very high here, even though the busride we took to get here from guayaquil went above the clouds.
guayaquil, by the way, gets an unfair bad rap. it has a lovely plaza and nice batidos as well. it is not to be looked down upon.
so, we should be here for about 2 weeks. spanish school should happen soon, and it had better, because i have made a complete ass of myself trying to speak. as anthony says, it would nice to be able to say something more complex than "i see mountain".
3 comments:
Great to hear! That is definitely a new way of thinking about "nice." The food sounds amazing eat an empanada for me. Love you lots! Carly
P.S Still no baby action from the sis.
anthony is lying -- he at the very least also knows how to say "rompa te." which, i suppose, in the spirit of the newly discovered appreciation of niceness, shouldn't be said all too often. or ever, really.
also, i disagree and think that you are much more of a nice person than you give yourself credit for.
y tambien tambien, en nueva york no veo la montana.
-roman con leche
It sounds like you've gotten off to a really good beginning. I think of learning spanish in terms of being able to put two sentences together without having had 5 glasses of beer.
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