Una corta
Just briefly, today is July 1st, which is apparently Canada Day... which I am apparently a bad person for not knowing about since they knew July 4th was mine... It´s not my fault they know about our holidays! Speaking of Canadians, being that the mission here is Canadian run I am the first true Gringa de lost Estados Unidos to come here. So everyone always assumes I´m Candaian. I now get to feel what the Canadians felt in Europe when everyone assumed they were American... except I don´t seem to get so worked up about it. (Candaians, please don´t be mean to me for that paragraph. it was spoken in love and jest).
So yesterday Bethany and I got to go to the Beach! We swam in the ocean. I don´t know that I´ve really ever SWAM in the Pacific ocean like that before... I´ve been to it a ton of times, but not full out swimming. To me is was nice and warm, but the Ecuadorians thought we were crazy - Lukily Bethany and I were the only ones on the beach so not to many of them were aware of our extreme craziness. It was fun. Good to get out of the city. I hadn´t really left the 2 mile radius around our apartment since I got here so it was good to see that not all of Ecuador is smelly and congested in covered in garbage. Not to dog on Ecuador, I love Ecuador, but it´s just the way it is - Guyaquil´s not exactly the prettiest place you´ve ever seen.
I just had a nice chat with my parents and now I´d better go cuz I only have $.20 left for the computer!
love!
So yesterday Bethany and I got to go to the Beach! We swam in the ocean. I don´t know that I´ve really ever SWAM in the Pacific ocean like that before... I´ve been to it a ton of times, but not full out swimming. To me is was nice and warm, but the Ecuadorians thought we were crazy - Lukily Bethany and I were the only ones on the beach so not to many of them were aware of our extreme craziness. It was fun. Good to get out of the city. I hadn´t really left the 2 mile radius around our apartment since I got here so it was good to see that not all of Ecuador is smelly and congested in covered in garbage. Not to dog on Ecuador, I love Ecuador, but it´s just the way it is - Guyaquil´s not exactly the prettiest place you´ve ever seen.
I just had a nice chat with my parents and now I´d better go cuz I only have $.20 left for the computer!
love!
posted by Pamela Joy at 8:21 AM
6 Comments:
Get a dose of her in jackboots and kilt
She's killer-diller when she's dressed to the hilt
your city's a sucker
my city's a creep!
Pamela,
So there's no beach culture in Ecuador? I wonder why. Is Guyaquil further inland because of floods closer to the shore? It was great hearing your voice when you called.
Love,
Dad
ha ha... you gringa...
People go to the beach in march, not in June, it is ¨winter¨ here right now you remember. And also they go on weekends not during the week, but yes, I was still very suprized at how empty it was. like when I say there was no one there I mean NO ONE. not a soul for as far as the beach stretched in either direction. Even in winter in oregon I don´t think i´ve ever seen taht at a beach.
And yes, Guyaquil is about 1 or 1.5 hours inland. We actually live closer to the beach than I am here.
actually, you can get to closer beaches but thats the one the camp is on. guayaquil is a big port city and so the closest ocean acess you can get yo is pretty unpleasant...we are the mouth of the guayas river...
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