Sooo, turns out Harry Potter is a whole lot more popular here than anticipated. The 3d showing wasn´t just sold out at midnight, but all day both in Spanish and English. Then when we tried to buy tickets for the 2d showing, couldn´t get them either. So overall a bit of a let down that we didnt make it to see Harry Potter, but no fear still gonna see it at some point, and probs will make it into the pirate dvd stores in a week so.... ;)
Also, finally go me some new trainers last week as my old ones are almost worn through on the sole and are split down the side! However, turns out what big feet mean is that its really hard to buy shoes! First time tried i just got laughed at and they didnt believe we were looking for shoes for me. They only had ones which looked like clown shoes on my feet! Eventually gave in to some ones that werent bad and more importantly fitted my feet.
Anyways, Thursday was my day to make the birthday cake for Emy. However, things went a little wrong from the start when i bought effectively sugared whipped cream from the supermarket instead of icing. Then when i got home, i put everything inside then went across the road to top-up my phone, only to return and realise i left my keys on the kitchen counter! So had to hang around a while outside till Mary came home! Also, due to expensive nature of cake ingredients here (more so than at home!) i gave in and for the first time ever bought a box mixture. So wasn´t sure how it was gonna turn out at all. But Elise (another volunteer) came over to help, and we decided that a nice bottle of rum would make it easier ;) Think there was something wrong with me though as rum smelt a little odd to me, but as long as i didn´t smell it before drinking, alls good! Cakes were cooking well though in testing the first one i ate a small hueco in the middle! ;) Hadn´t made it back to the supermarket so went ahead with using the cream for icing. Wanted to make the cake in the form of Maka Paka who´s Emy´s favourite cartoon character and is a greyish/brown colour. Unfortunately when trying to put a few drops of red food dye in, the lid fell off, and the whole thing fell in, turning the cream a pretty vivid shade of pink. So from that moment on it was going to be a Maka Paka rosada! As to begin with only had one cake tin and then couldn´t open the oven till that cake was done, was too late to decorate the cake by then so just put everything away for next day. Friday evening I spent decorating the cake which didn´t turn out too disastrously considering lack of normal cake making materials. Also, froze to death helping Edwin and friend collect and bring chairs to the house for the Baptism. Took a while to convince his friend that chocolate not cigarettes was what i wanted to warm up though!
Anyways, saturday morning was a more sorting stuff out, but then had some free time to go for my run and go down to the supermaxi. Felt a little bit underdressed considering they were wearing suits and dresses when we went to the church but when we got there I was better than some others who´d come in jeans. Church was quite cool looking inside as was decorated like a ship, i would assume ark? Also dunno if i´ve mentioned this but people here just love to honk their horns for no apparent reason. So as Grandad was driving us to the church, every like 20m he´d honk twice despite no-one being around? Anyways, Amy was pretty unco-operative and kept screaming and turning her head away when they tried to put the water on her, which was pretty funny tbh. Plus the priest kept going on about how important baptism is and what bad parents people are if they deprive their child or something like that, but seemed a litttle redundant considering we were there for a baptism?
Got back to the house about 6 or so, with all the guests but dinner wasn´t going to be ready for quite a while so i offed to get me a snack of salchipapas! Also, was a little awkward as seemed a room full of either couples of old people who all knew each other. So I played with all the little kids for a while to ease the boredom. Now let me put this out there that Ecuadorian parties are something else. The evening basically consisted on toma toma/ baile baile! At one point Edwin had me taking the shots round as he said he couldn´t do it as they kept giving drinks to him. So, I´d go round with the tray and everyone wants you to take a drink with them, so I´d come back with like 5 empty ones of my own, then have to go round again as i hadn´t had enbough for everyone the first time! They also thought it was hilarious to get me to dance, mostly cause i´d already said i suck at it. But i think i provided a fair amount of entertainment with my attempts ;) Not really sure when they went to bed, Mary said she sent people home a bit after 4, but I gave in at 3.30 at fell asleep, apparently with my light still on. Next morning no-one got up till 11 and there was a ton of empty rum bottles on the kitchen table. Made myself a nice breakfast though of leftover rice, cake, and some yoghurt.
Effectively took the rest of the day to clear up, and we all got a couple hours napping time aswell cause Edwin´s parents took Emy for the day. Then about 6.30ish got my new housemate Ross, surprise surprise also from the states, but he seems really nice and he speaks good spanish. Though Edwin was calling him arroz to begin with ;) Due to my not so great state, decided i couldn´t face the 10 hour bus ride to the beach so i ended up giving that a miss!
Monday was chilled and didn´t get up till 10.30. Then gave Ross a quick tour of the area, and in the afternoon we went into Mariscal and the artesan market there. Also picked up a few films on the way home. Watched Prince of Persia on Mon which wasn´t too bad then The Eagle yesterday, which was the biggest bromance ever. Wasn´t what i was expecting at all!
Then yesterday managed to not hear an alarm clock by my head for over two hours and only woke up at 9(when im supposed to be at the office) as Mary knocked on the door! Almost did the same today as overslept but Edwin knocked earlier around 8.20 so wasn´t late this time!
Our structure attempt for english seemed to be working but got told yesterday that they´re cutting teaching english and kinda combining it with the markets program to create a sorta summer school session for the market kids. Then this morning i went to actual summer school program as they were short a person to teach maths. I was told someone had already planned out the lessons so i just had to go through it with the kids, but their ability was seriously uinderestimated, not to mention within the age groups there was such a variety in ability which made it really hard to do anything. Had to totally abandon the plan and adlib. But think i have a better idea now of what they know and can hopefully sort something for next week. I think the other issue is that Americans have lower standards for Maths according to what they´re taught in school. But that´s just a thought ;)
Will tell you my plan for this weekend, though i change things all the time so you never know! On friday finally hoping to get to see the new Harry Potter considering was a bit of a fail last week! Then Saturday hhead to Baños until early Monday morning where we´re gonna head to Quilotoa where we can do a 4/5 hour hike (depending on sunlgiht) upto and around a crater with the cool lake inside. Then depending on money situation might to a downhill biking trip next thursday on Cotopaxi. Then next weekend is just Mitad del mundo, Otavalo again and some time in old town as haven´t actually done that yet! Then fly out of Quito 6am Monday 1st August!! Can´t believe where the times gone, I mean only got less than 2 weeks left till i leave!
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