Several updates. For everyone who has been bored by this blog of "nothing´s happening... applying to grad school...," I have news...
News flash number 1: UCLA and Berkeley applications officially done, submitted, paid for, finiti, terminadas, I´m in the applicant pool!
News flash number 2: This isn´t probably nearly as exciting to you all as it is to me, but I have spent 35 dollars on the past week of lodging and almost no (and I mean almost zero!) money on food. "How?" you ask. I´m that good... and i am in some place where they let me slide by for 5 bucks a night. I have discovered that 50 cents of empanadas makes a good budget lunch... if only I didn´t have to apply for grad school, this would have been an incredibly cheap week, which makes me happy as I watch my dwindling bank account.
News flash number 3: I am traveling!! Hard core! I turned in my applications, there was nothing left for me in Baños, unless you count guys muttering jokes about my Spanish while watching old dubbed movies in the tourist agencies... so I headed to Latacunga...
I plan on spending the next several days in the mountains west of Latacunga, hiking and trekking in rural communities with no Internet or phones. I have to meet other trekkers, and I don´t know how it will go... Realizing suddenly tonight that it was stupid to head out alone when no one had any idea where I was (no one in Baños or Quito or Ohio or San Francisco), I emailed Mark my tentative itinerary. Contact him if I don´t show up next Thursday, a week from now.
After some mountain trekking, I am going to finally go for the tourist route and hit up the beaches around Christmas. However, something tells me a hammock on a balmy equatorial beach will be more fun than watching Baños guides explain rafting to a bunch of confused American college students who will inevitably turn to me to translate. I´ve helped them a little at travel agencies, editing brochures which had said in English "wonderfull ecuador, come and discovery of the extreme sports in baños, we offer to you the jungle trip, kayac, cayoning." My version was "wonderful ecuador, come and discover extreme sports in baños, we offer jungle trips, kayaking, canyoning," but I liked their version, too :)
I´ll write when I get out of my mountain trekking. Love from the high Andes!
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