Hello. Just want to give everyone an update that I made it to Quito and am doing very well. I wrote a long post about my time here so far but it is on my laptop and I a writing now from an internet cafe with no way to transfer what I wrote. WiFi is not common here and my host family has a 15 year old computer with no internet. Thankfully, this cafe is only 70 cents an hour so I can get my technology fix for cheap. I will post the longer post from my school tomorrow.
Quito is very interesting and very different from the US. Itçs taking some adjusting and by the end of the day I am exhausted from trying to speak and understand Spanish. But that is what I came here for. Everyone here is super super kind and hospitable, my host mother and the staff at the school. I feel very safe and that I have lots of people to help me with whatever I need.
At our first day of school today, we had a very interesting speaker who astounded me with some facts about Ecuador. Here are a few...
Unemployment is 10 percent but subemployment, people who do little jobs or work on the street selling junk and begging basically, is 60 percent. So, there are 70 percent of people without real jobs here in Ecuador.
From 1996 to 2006 they had 8 dofferent governements. And from 1979 to 1996 they had 17 different governments.
The current president has basically denounced old debts as being illegitimate because past governments did nt use them for the people. So, he wonçt pay their huge debts to the International Monetary Fund.
Watch for my post on this past weekend tomorrow.
Much love.
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