Classes and Such...

Well I don´t have any fancy pictures to put up here again but hopefully soon I will have some from the Cuenca area. The weather is so hard to predict here that I never know when a good day will be to go out and take some pics. It can go from cloudy and raining in the morning to really hot in the afternoon. Plus weathermen don´t really exist here, I´ve never once seen a weather report on the news (which we watch every day during lunch and every night during dinner) nor I have I seen one in the newspaper. So I pretty much have to guess everyday. But it´s not that big of a deal since I live a block away from the school, I can always go change if I need to.

Classes are going pretty well here, I guess they are easier then I expected them to be. All of my Professors are very different from one another. I really enjoy the man who teaches my indigenous culture class. He knows alot about the indigenous culture here and teaches us some pretty cool stuff. He teaches like I expected the prof´s to, he is right at our level of spanish and does a great job. Now my two other teachers have some problems. I feel like one thinks that she´s teaching ecuadorian students in a university rather than people from another country who don´t speak spanish fluently. For the most part it isn´t a problem but sometimes she just talks and talks and doesn´t every ask if we understand or need clarification so it makes it hard for us to interject and say that we don´t understand something. And finally the last professor is the exact opposite of the previous. She speaks to us like we are five years old and we don´t understand anything. It´s pretty funny actually, hopefully she´ll catch on soon that we actually do indeed understand her quite well.

Overall I enjoy my classes, I think I will learn alot about different aspects. My three classes cover: Indigenous lifestyles and practices and how they are apparent in modern day Ecuador, The history of Latin America (it´s conquest and colonization) and lastly Contemporary Latin American Society. So good stuff there.

Last weekend we went and visited some Incan ruins called "Ingapirca". I don´t have much to say about it because it wasn´t the most exciting thing in the world. Pretty, and interesting how they lived the way they did so long ago, but mostly nothing too amazing. Except for our tour guides, they were hilarious. A son and his father. I got a picture with the father, he was great, made a lot of dirty jokes, but it was all pretty funny.

Tonight is ladies night at a local "gringo bar" (gringos are northamericans) so basically a toursit bar. Its supposed to be a really nice place and ladies pay $3 for entry and get four drinks of their choice I guess. So I think most of the group is headed there for the night, but I am definitely not staying that late. I´m already tired enough every morning, I don´t need another reason to be!

I guess that´s all for now, sorry this wasn´t the most exciting update. Hopefully I´ll have some pictures up soon so you can see Cuenca in all its beauty! (pray for the rain to stop...)

Hope you are all doing well, I miss you and love you!!
Besitos,
Lindsey