Thursday, 1 May 2008

Email from Ecuador (2008 Year Out Volunteer)

Written by Stephanie Martin - Ecuador

Hey Everyone!!
Just a quick email to say hey and that i arrived in Quito, Ecuador safely. Quito is incredible - parts of it are so gorgeous and other parts are incredibly poor. The difference in the classes are unbelievable - we have a maid and an armed security guard at the end of our street 24/7 and we get incredible lunches etc everyday but when we went out one night there were children as young as 3 asking us for money and trying to sell us stuff at 2:30 in the morning! We felt so bad for them and kept asking them whether they were sleepy.

We´ve started spanish lessons which is fun but tiring – I’ve learned so much though and we´ve only been doing it for 2 days!

I better go coz we´re late for dinner and meals are a huge deal - once Anita the host mum thought we were saying we were going to miss lunch and got so cut!

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