So I guess I haven't actually written anything in roughly two weeks. So what's been going on? Studying. Midterms, papers, etc. Taking 6 classes is hard, especially when 5 are in Spanish.
So I'm just going to include a few quick tidbits I thought were pretty funny from having conversations with Marci. I can only really recall two right now. One was she said hijo de perra (rough translation: son of a bitch) and the other was a common phrase her husband used to say. Some context, soup here is almost a necessity with lunch. 99.99% of the time you eat an Ecuadorean lunch you'll have a huge bowl of soup. Soup in spanish is sopa and a little bit of soup is sopita. So when she would ask her husband if he wanted soup he would say sopita o soputa. puta also means bitch. so basically you either have soup with your meal or you aren't a man. Yeah, my first pun that i understand here is about swearing with soup... awesome.
So what am I up to right now? I'm studying for midterms, just planned a trip to Mindo which is a touristy place with zip lines and chocolate factories and crazy wildlife apparently. After the following week, I'll be able to relax for a little bit I think. Italian is probably my favorite class right now. I learned I'm over literature in Spanish. Yeah, I said it. I love the language, day to day stuff is easy and whatnot, I've got most of my Spanish on lock. But reading books and stories in it, just aren't interesting to me. But I should have expected that, I don't really enjoy that kind of stuff in English either. My parents just booked their flights to come visit me for like 4/5 days in December which is pretty sweet. I'm not sure how my mom will react to being in a 'third world country' even though its pretty great here.
Do I miss home right now? Not particularly. But I'm not 100% mentally in Ecuador. Its just the whole exams thing which is just a small little valley but it'll be fine. I wouldn't change any of these experiences for the world. That hiking trip was actually surreal. Sometimes you have to snap back into and realize that this is where I live and its just making me want to travel more. Maybe I'll even choose to live in a foreign country someday. Music helps cope with nights when you're doing homework all alone. I was kind of expecting to come here and have everything all figured out by the time I get home and the more I'm here the less I see that actually occurring. I certainly see changes I want to make but in reality I have more questions than answers. So I'm going to get back to studying, hope all is well for everyone back home and for anyone else on study abroad.
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