15-19/09 || Mompiche ||

Hola 

The last 4 days have I spent in Mompiche. I have had so much fun the last few days. 

I was together with all the exchange students here in Ecuador. 

It was paradise, we lived on this really nice resort called Decameron. It was out to the ocean. The resort had 5 pools, 4 restaurants, lots for bars, a stage, a disco, a private beach island and a cinema, but the best was that everything was free! We shared rooms two and two. I lived together with Bridget from Canada and in the room beside us was Jenna from Canada and Helen from Chicago. We opened the door between us and shared the two rooms.  

This trip was our language camp, so we study Spanish every day. It was hard to study in the heat, but I did learn something. 

It was so nice to meet all the exchange students and talk to someone who knows how you feel. Everybody is so nice. I finale also got to meet the to people in my rotary club in Ibarra, Arnetta from US and Lucas from Germany. 

Every night saw we the show on the stage, it was amazing. The dancers was so good, and the costumes was so pretty. After went we to the disco and danced.

Every little thing the last few days have just been stunning... 

Love 

14/09 || Cascada ||

Hola 

Today has been a wonderful day with many impressions. 

The girls from my school asked me if I wanted to go with them to a waterfall near Otavalo. Actually it is The Waterfall, because the waterfall has a history... Back in the old days came the original people and sacrificed near the waterfall, so today it's holy water! If the waterfall "spits" on you, you will have luck for a whole year... 

We met 10 a clock at Diana's mom and dad's café/bar. We needed to take a taxi to get to the waterfall. 

First we saw the largest waterfall and then we went to a smaller one. To get to the little waterfall were we forced to curl through a very small and quite dark tunnel. Creepy... 

Then we jumped in to the water with shoes and clothes on. 

       Bad picture but it was so funny. 

            Holy water and sweet girls.

Then we went back to Otavalo and ate lunch. 

Love 

Btw, Cascada is waterfall in Spanish...

05-08/9 || Playa ||

Hola

The last four days have I spend on the beach... 

My host dad pick me up from school thursday and told me that I have to pack a bag, because my counselor would pick me up in about one hour and take me to the beach with him and his family. 

I was quite confused! 

It takes about 4 hours to get there but it's a really nice place, so the long road trip doesn't matter. 

      

         The view from our apartment.

My counselor is a really nice man and so is his family. He has a wife and 3 children. The oldest is a girl, Ariana. Ariana's host sister from Germany (where she was with rotary from 3 years ago) was also with us because she now lives with Ariana here in Ecuador - Sweet story. The next day did more family arrived. Also really nice people! 

It was really hot and we bathed the whole Friday. In the evening we all went to a beach bar. We drank beer, danced and we all had fun. I still have to get used to  how they dance and the music they listen to, but I'm really starting to like it. 

              Dinner Friday night! <3 

             The bar before the party... 

Saturday we took action! I tried Jet Ski and a Tube. It was really funny! 

In the evening we again went to a beach bar and had fun, this time it was only the young people.

Love 

Ps. I am already going to the beach again sunday, but this time to Mompiche beach... <3 

Food

Hola 

A lot have been asking about what I eat. So I am making a whole page only about what I'm eating here in Ecuador... 

Breakfast:

For breakfast I eat fruit, bread or cereals with milk... I like the breakfast because its the same as in Denmark. 

                        Where I buy fruit.

                       

                          Hot litchi drink.

Lunch: 

For lunch I have a warm (big) meal and it's often rice with something else... 

Its our housekeeper who makes lunch for me. She also makes fresh juice everyday. I've tried so many that I only remember orange, limo, strew berry, papaya, litchi and apple juice. She is a very nice lady! 

They eat popcorn to everything. I think it's a little strange, because I think that it's something you eat in the cinema, but here in Ecuador it's normal to eat with your food as a salad. When they eat salad or corn they just have one big bowl on the table and then they just take their fork or spoon and eat from the bowl as if it were their plate. 

As you can see there is a lot of rice... I often get soup as a starter. 

                   Juice! In Spanish jugo... 

Dinner: 

For dinner is very different what I eat. Sometimes we eat out and sometimes we just eat the leftovers from lunch. Often we also just eat bread with different cheeses and sausages. 

After dinner we always get tea. I can tell you that in Ecuador they use a lot of sugar in their tea!

                      Homemade pizza.

           A really good cake called Tango.

                         ... More cake. 

Some food my classmates eat and again    popcorn? 

Love 

A Good Day

Hi :-) 

I have had the best day so fare in Ecuador. 

First of all it was my first school day and I was so nerves! I am the only blonde girl in the school and everybody are looking. There are only one girl in my class who speaks English, she is really nice and she translate everything for me. She introduced me to her friends, they are all really sweet. They have already asked me if I haven't to hangout with them after school. There are 35 in my class and only 10 of them are boys. 

Everyone tells me all the time how pretty I am and that I have beautiful blue eyes. The girl who speak english even told me that some of the boys from other classes,  think that I'm pretty. Of course it makes me very happy and flattered, but I still don't know how to react... 

Later my host mom came home and asked me if I wanted to go with her to the award ceremony of  Reina del Yamor. It was really cool. 

After the show I spoke to some different people and one of them is a very sweet guy called Edd. Edd speaks very well English because he has been in Australian for a year. He is the brother of on of the reians. While I was speaking to Edd this really nice man came to say goodbye to me. I have talk with the man plenty times before, but I have never got the chances to ask who he is - which is my luck, because I asked Edd who the man is and Edd told me that he is the major of Otavalo... So now I know who he is and I can tell you that the major of Otavalo is a very nice man. I also talked with two other girls from Reinas Del Yamor. They are two very sweet girls. They gave me their number and told me to call them when ever I want to hangout. 

After a long day we finally had dinner...

Love 

Reinas Del Yamor

Hola Amigos 

Now I'm going to tell you guys about Reinas Del Yamor. 

First of all I had a really good time and it was amazing (again). 

Because my mom is the director of Otavalo, we had really good sits. First of all you need tickets to see the show and second you need to have special tickets to sit where we sat. We where to rows behind the judges. Our chairs were covered with a white chair blanket and it had a blue bow around it - very nice. 

It was a huge show with light, dance, live music and singing. All the girls who participated in the competition had these big dresses on with a lot of glitter. They smile and waved to everyone. 

There were more than 30 dancer, who went crazy to Elvis, Abba, Britney Spears and many other artist. It was fun and the atmosphere was fantastic. Otavalo knows how to throw a party. 

     Our chairs, the judges and the host.

       The opening dance and the girls. 

                 The girls are dancing. 

      My host mom is the lady in purple. 

    And the winner of Reinas Del Yamor.

- Sorry for the poor quality. 

Love