updates.

it's been nine days since my last post, and i have absolutely no idea where to start with this one... a lot has happened! i'll try to keep my thoughts in order...

last monday was a rough one. it was the first day of the last week of the TESOL course, and everyone was exhausted. i was looking forward to finishing up and getting setteld into the apartment the following weekend. since our lease was supposed to start friday, august first, we called our landlord on monday to see when we could get the key. turns out that he accidentally wrote down september first on our lease instead of august first... so come friday, we had no place to live. a little stressful, made worse by the fact that my host family forgot about me that night and didn't feed me dinner. monday, monday.

syd, leah and I on the last day of class, on the terrace of the *experimento, where we spent many a coffe break.

fast forward to the weekend. leah, dani and i had a fun day saturday. now officially homeless, i packed up all my belongings and headed to dani's house. her host mom, olga, graciously let leah and i sleep there for a night. we had a good day, made pizza with pedro (the man who lives in dani's backhosue, and has a pizza shop), watched movies, and even got facials from olga, who is an esthetician.

we had plans to go to the beach the next day, but after a long hard week of class and a full day of moving, 6 hours on the bus did not sound fun, especially considering we only had three days.

but for some reason, the next morning, 4 hours to colombia sounded perfect. so sunday morning, we headed out with olga on a whim (sorry mom). interesting to say the least. and it definitely deserves its own blog, which will come soon.

fast forward again to wednesday. we are back from colombia. with no place to live, leah's mom has generously used her amex points for us to stay at the nicest hotel in quito... it is amazing! we are in a suite with a fully kitchen, living room, huge bedroom and two bathrooms. my favorite thing has been the showers. after six weeks of hit or miss showers with little to no hot water, absolutely no water pressure, or water that just stops running right when i am soapy and hot, high-pressure shower is pure bliss. we have had a great time, taking full advantage of the jacuzzi, room service, and cable.

speaking of that, i have some things to get back to right about now. colombia blog coming soon.

oh, and, i'm thinking of adding a spanish word of the day. slash word of the blog.

today's word:

chevere = cool; banging; tight. to be used in informal settings.

*the "experimento" is where we took our TESOL course. it is officially called "the experiement in international living." you can check it here.