So weeks here go by pretty quickly as have Mondays off and then last week took Friday off aswell to head to the beach. Still was working with the kids in the markets and am actually learning the words to the millions songs we do now through sheer repitition, which i imagine is how the kids do it aswell!
This weeks colour was red, so instead of sticking paper onto a fruit, the little ones were painting their apples red! And actually tons of little kids with paint really wasnt as disastrous as you might think! Then the middle ones were completing shapes and colouring them in certain colours, whilst the oldest ones had to write 3 words out beginning with certain letters that they sometimes confuse, like B and V. Also, there was one girl who must´ve been about 8 who couldn´t wirte but hadn´t said anything so when she first gave me her sheet, witht he first couple she´d filled out, i asked her what it said, and she couldn´t tell me. So I was like, you wrote this yeh? so you must know what it says, but she just refused to talk and went back to her friend. So started watchign them and they would huddle over the paper whilst her friend wrote the answers for her! At first I thought she just didn´t want to do it, and it wasn´t till i asked her if she could write that she actually said anything! So we settled on i´d write it for her and then she´d copy it out aswell.
Then on thursday afternoon i was supposed to be switching to teaching english in the afternoons, but they had a meeting about it that afternoon, so went along with Tim and Rachel, only for us to be told it´d been cancelled just the person who knew hadn´t told anyone! lol So got the afternoon off effectively, so went into mariscal to find my friend (from Arequipa) who´d just arrived in Quito.
Got back home about 8ish and the other people I was going to the beach had already gone as the plan was i´d meet them there, but got a call saying they´d missed the bus and next one wasn´t till 11.45 so figured might aswell go with them! But went home first to sort stuf and have dinner. Though ended up finishing like 3/4 bottle of Ron with Marie/Edwin whilst waiting as we all decided we´d had long days! lol
It´s a 7hour bus ride to the beach we went to - Atacames. I found it alright as basically just slept the whole thing though apparently the others said it was really hot due to lack of windows and was an appaling driver along a windy road! Glad i missed that ;)
Arrived at like 7 in the morning so got one of these little mototaxis down to the beach, there was only 4 of us (Me, Erin, Megan and R.C) so we all fit in one. Wandered for a while finding a hotel then headed to the beach to chill for a while. I gave in to buying sunglasses for $5 as was basics impossible to sit on bewach without them! lol Got me some nice Ray-Ban´s ;)
After couple hours on beach reached boredom so we went on an hour boat ride for another $5 just for something to do, and got to see some of the other beaches nearby and a giant rock covered in birds!
Everyone was still knackered so after that and some lunch we hung in the room for a while. Again boredom kicked in so we decided to have a few drinks to pass the time and then headed to a bar after bout 6ish. Were way too early for any kindof happy hour, but our bar tender was definately off in the head as we paid $5 for 4 cocktails all worth $4/5 each? lol Had a really random night, and went for some amazing pizza run by this old italian guy whos been living here for like 20 years. Then erin said she was jkinda tired so we dropped her back off at the room then went back out.
Tested out a ton of the bars, went for like an hour walk on the beach, rented out one of those mototaxis for half hour, our driver was awesome he even took photos of us with an imaginary camera! lol and we think we made it up to like 60 before he slowed down and started doing donuts! Also saw these amazing street dancers performing in one of the bars aswell, o and did karaoke in some random lil place, don´t think we were overly well received! lol
Next morning we didn´t leave until just before we had to check out like at 11.30. Then just went for breakfast and then got a mototaxi to the buses to check times(actually ended up being same driver as previous night, what are the chances!) lol But when we got there there was a bus leaving in like 15 mins so we just decided to get on that one! Luckily this one had A/C though had the weirdest, most appaling selection of films. As we were coming into Quito though we passed an accident where like the front on a lorry had crashed into a building and was half sitting inside! Got back to Quito in the evening and had a quick dinner before going home as the famnily weren´t expecting us back till Sunday plus they were at a wedding anyways so we assumed they´d still be out.
Now, I´m a pretty heavy sleeper as most of you probably know so it takes quite a lot to wake me up. Anyways, about 3.15 in the morning I woke up and was just like wtf is that noise, there was lights on and singing and just noise. Took a little while for me to suss that the family had brought some of the party home with them and they must have all been totally wasted! They had a guitar and were clapping, shouting and singing seriously loud! lol Anyways i was told they went to bed maybe around 5/5.30 but i fell asleep so not sure. Anyways, next morning, Edwin was still blatently drunk as he wandered into Erin´s room at like 9 looking for lost shoes, then just sat in a chair for a couple minutes going ohhh my head. Then came to look for these mystery shoes in my room (he told me later that what had happened is someone had gone round hiding other peoples shoes! lol) Marie on the other hand was just in pain and had a seriously bad hangover, so wasnt in the best of moods! They were kinda funny as she was obviously annoyed at him for still being drunk and he also managed to lose the key to his wardrobe with all his clothes in! lol As it was fathers day we attempted going out for lunch but no-one was really hungry so just came back and chilled at the house.
Round about this time I started feeling ill and have been dying of a fever, headache and sore tummy hasta today! But masses of sleep and t.v watching with a litre of ice cream was a sure fire cure! ;) So yeah having not left the house really since sunday minus a few quick outings, not much to report! But will let you know how the rest of the week goes!
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