Friday 6/20/14: walked with Fanny, got caught up on notes and blog, helped Fanny search for flights and learn the functions on her iPad, watched the game.
GOOOOOOOLLLLLLLL!!!!! Ecuador won!!!!
Sunday 6/22/14: spent the day with Andrea: went to Ibarra to help her pick out glasses, ate "BBQ," watched the games (I still can't believe Portugal tied the game against the US at the last minute! Ugh), and helped her choose songs for her thesis. Then, I helped Fanny buy her plane tickets to visit her daughter in Germany.
Ok, so BBQ here is not like BBQ at home (it's missing the key ingredient: the sauce!), but it's still good. I had what was basically a kabob that consisted entirely of meat (3 different sausages, chicken, and beef) with red cabbage and this pea and bean salad that is popular here. Good Lord, I'm going to eat my weight in meat while I'm here!
But it was fun to help Andrea choose songs for her thesis (and avoid writing my own notes. Oops!). After a lot of effort considering the difficulty of lyrics, tempo, accent, and lack of innuendos, we came up with this great list of 18 songs for Andrea to choose 10. And then she found the book used in Ecuador to teach middle school kids and realized that each song needed to match 1 of the 6 objectives. And just like that, we only had 3 songs. Sigh. You'd think that practically being a radio would've made me perfect for this job, but it was tough! We finally chose 9 songs before giving up and grabbing some pizza for a late dinner. Clearly, we were eating like Americans today. ;)
Monday 6/23/14: did laundry, took my pants to get fixed, went to Otavalo, Skyped with Doug and mom.
(Sorry for being brief, but I'm trying to get caught up!)
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