so unorganized.

my posts have turned into random facts and adventures in list form... because i don´t have time to figure everything out ahead of time...

1. my señora told me last night i need to get my mustache waxed. (thanks, ana maria.)
2. i went to this huge volcano crater lake thing yesterday name Quiloatoa (which was like 4 hours outside of Quito) and we hiked all the way down and all the way up... i am SO sore this morning. it took an hour to hike straight up... in sand... wow. but it was so beautiful. i´ll post some pictures if i can ever get super fast internet.
3. the bus got stopped in the middle of one of many small towns on the way to the lake... it was because there was this festival for corpus christi going on... in the middle of the only road. so we hopped out and took some really amazing pictures of the local highlanders... so cool. i feel so artsy. haha.
4. on friday, i took the Teleferico thing, which is like a big gondola ski lift, up to the top of the volcano right beside quito. it is only a mere 4500 meters high. breathing was interesting. then we hiked for two more hours to try to summit this other high point, but we didn´t make it because we had class at 2. bah. maybe next week?
5. i will have a roommate at 11 this morning...
6. my friend, andy, is coming to visit for a week, which is phenomenal.
7. i am late to meet people to go to the equator.
8. i can speak better broken spanish and even conjugate verbs now.
9. i slept fo 10.5 hours last night.
10. we played el futbol... boys against girls last friday... boys won. bah.
11. i bought a raincoat. (the highlight of the week, no doubt.)
12. i am going to post some pictures soon. promise.
13. thank you for all of the emails and the cards... MUCH appreciated.
14. and i think that is it for now. off to the equator! (which is how EQUAdor got its name... who knew?! i didn´t... oops.)

more later. lots of good stories. no near death experiences (added bonus).
besos.