Forgot to tell about the market on Friday! Our teacher Anabel took us to a closed market that is held everyday at least in that neighborhood. We saw so many fruit! The colors of fruit and flowers are magical! Also, they had meats and fish and little places you can eat. It was kind of funny though, we were going through the stalls and Anabel was pointing at different things and saying their names in Spanish while we were repeating them... :) We were quite a spectacle! At the end we tried their snack: fresh boiled big kernel corn mixed with toasted corn and some sort of beans topped with one of my favorite things here: Chicharrones, which is fried pork cracklings (which was only 50 cents!!!!!!).



I am finding that very few things are hard or are annoying here. In general we've been enjoying pretty much every aspect of the culture. I thought it will be a bit harder to get used to a new culture, but to my surprise it's been really easy! The only thing that is a bit annoying is the unpredictability of our shower... It's either freezing or hot... Can never tell! :)
I love how the people are so relaxed and really know how to have a good time. For example yesterday we went out for dinner (had typical Ecuadorian fair: potatoes, rice, slowly stewed lamb and avocado) and later went to ta club to dance, it was packed!! People love to dance here! They definitely dance in a more sensual manner than everywhere else that I've seen! And once the salsa beat is on, the beauty of the movements is hard to describe, it seems that everyone knows how to salsa... except for the white people :)! Oh well, we are learning, hopefully we'll be able to salsa at least a bit...

Penktadienis - turgaus diena? Praeita penktadieni mes su savo ispanu k. mokytoja Anabel bludinome po vietines reiksmes turgeli. Nors jau anksciau bandeme nemazai mums nezinomu vaisiu, si karta uztikome dar kelis. Viena is ju - chirimoya - mane tiesiog apzavejo. Taigi sekinejome savo mokytoja is paskos ir kartojome vaisiu, mesu, zuvu ir kitu padaru bei augalu pavadinimus ispaniskai. Pietus pavalgeme uz 50 amerikietisku centu - kukuruzai, kepta kiauliena (Chicharrones) ir pupos.