Exercise and Shopping

So feeling better on Wednesday was back to the markets as usual! Also officially got to start on the whole teaching english thing, though more accurate would be spending an hour and half entertaining some kids and making sure they dont run off anywhere! So Wednesday evening we went and played basketball after work which was seriously tiring as we were doing 5 a side but using the whole court, and as usual we were feeling the altitude a bit. Then there were quite a few people leaving this weekend just goone so Thursday we all went out. This included Monica and Byron who run the charity and whose house is the volunteer home. Everyone had a pretty awesome time, and came off a little worse for wear, mostly due to the large pitchers and fishbowls we got for free! lol Then turned out that at about 2 Monica and Byron had gone to pick up one of the new volunteers from the airport in a taxi, but still pretty out of it, anyways Monica like fell asleep half way through the ride, then when they got back to the house, two people were sitting locked outside and a taxi with the others had just arrved back and they had to support one of the others into the house!
So come Friday morning we were a couple volunteers down ;) Nevertheless had enough to play football in the evening, though i came off a little worse having ended up in goal for some time!
Saturday like all of us, 21, went to Otavalo, which is this massive market a couple hours out of Quito where people come from all over to sell their things. Got some good bargains and did me some present shopping. Though had to also buy a giant duffle bag as my new hand luggage otherwise i won´t be getting all that stuff home! lol Have to say though my best buy of the day came as we were leaving and were passing this cake shop where i got an awesome strawberry tart for $1! It was one of those ones with the kinda custardy fillings and the bottom was chocolate lined aswell! :)
Sunday was a bit more of a chilled day and we headed into Mariscal to the artesan market there for a lil more shopping then went to this Mexican restaurant for lunch which was pretty good. Then spent the afteroon chilling in the center in a coffee shop called Chocolate republic that had all these free samples to try ;)
Also went up to the ´Panicillo´or something like that which is this viewpoint in the middle of Quito, up a massive hill and has this giiant angel statue up top. Anyways got a taxi up there and asked him to wait as we were told it´s really dangerous to walk down. So had a wander around and i discovered all these new modes on my camera which entertained me for a while. However, when we went back our taxi man had abandoned us and there weren´t any other taxis or anything around. Asked the most unhelpful tourist police man who said to just wait as we shouldn´t walk down. Had to wait like 30 mins for one to turn up, and was pretty windy up there!
So then Monday was another chilled day, debated going somewhere but instead just lounged and caught up on some Wimbledon for a while. Also actually tidied my room to such an effect that when Edwin came home he asked me what had happened, and didn´t believe me that i´d done it myself! He even called Marie to show her aswell ;)
Then past couple days have been all normal at the markets and am still doing ´teaching englsh´inthe afternoons, which on Tuesday disolved into facepainting then bodypainting. I came off slightly better after telling a kid ´touch me and die´when they came at me again with the paintbrushes. On the other hand Nik and Elise had both their arms completely coated in paint! Kids seemed to enjoy it though and it definately made the time go quicker! Then this morning I found my new favorite niño who just smiles, jumps up and down and holds your hand, doesn´t really seem to talk/be able to, he just says ´mira´every now and then!
Also, have been keeping up with the exercise/runnning though we´ve now progressed to this like exerciise video which is actually really hard. So i´ve been up and over at the other house by 7 every morning for our little sessions! Though we had the perfect spot up on the roof, we got kicked off as apparently someone below us complained! Anyways, hopefully this whole running at altitude thing will improve my fitness :)
Then tonight we´re going out again as it´s technically Erin´s last night, as we´re having family time tomorrow night and she leaves like 3am on Sunday morning! Planing repeat of last week ;)