holiday

so today was my first experience with an ecuadorean celebration of sorts. it was my "nephew's" birthday today so we had dinner and whatnot down stairs. we had cake, sang, ate pizza, watched football regular and american. it was pretty fun. i got to work on my spanish for another 5 hours or so. yeah, those celebrations go on foreverrrrrrrrrrr. it was a good time though. met some new people. right now i'm just listening to afi and working on some homework. another busy week. i am kind of already getting annoyed at repetition during each week here of waking up getting on the bus going to lunch then class for like 5 hours then coming home but working at chicos de la calle will help break that up along with this guys trip starting friday night. this weekend was pretty fun. went out to an ecuadorean bar with some friends and there was a live band and we started hanging out with ecuadoreans and then randomly we had a request to have our pictures taken with some different group of ecuadoreans. it was pretty fun and random. then saturday i went to watch tennis at a nearby tournament with a friend of mine. it was really sunny and hot out by i had a good time. there was a volcano in the background which you can see in the pictures i uploaded. the link is still in my last post. slowly missing things from home a little bit but overall i am starting to realize how many things i can live without. it's pretty eye opening. i can't wait to go on my trips to active volcanos. it's going to crazy. less than two months away.