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So we have landed and we´re settling in, we both felt a bit dizzy from the altitiude the first day and the journey was hateful (Iberia are a shit airline). To my surpirise we´re not in Quito but a small town on the outskirts called Fajardo near a bigger town called Sanconquil. We live in a house with 2 other girls from Germany and the house whilst a bit bare is liveable. The poverty is pretty shocking here though, stray dogs everywhere and its so dusty and dirty. The Spanish lessons are great, the guys come to our house and give us a 4 hour lesson each day but before that we are supposed to volunteer for 4 hours at a local school. Marianne is at a different school than me but we´re not far apart. I think the volunteering could certainly rival anything I have ever done before for the Paris Hilton Pointless Award so I told them I´m not doing it and I have cut my hours. The school no hate me but I don´t care. Anyway we´re both safe and well and we´re going for a tour of Quito tomorrow

The last few days have been pretty crazy, trying to prepare everything and sayin bye to everyone, on top of that I think a few vacines in quick sucession, a few drinks and lack of sleep have conspired to rob me of my health. After takin it easy for the last few days in Germany though I’m now better and ready to go.

The journey looks like it will be shit, all together I think it will take 19 hours. We leave tomorrow at around 7:30 German time.

Heya!
Ciarán hat gerade diesen Blog eingerichtet. Glaube, dass es ne ziemlich coole Idee is, um alle Leute auf dem Laufenden zu halten und mit allen in Kontakt zu bleiben.
Jetzt haben wir nur noch einen Tag vor der Abreise und ich bin immer noch nicht wirklich aufgeregt, frag mich wirklich, wie lange des wohl noch dauert…..
Das nächste Mal, wenn ich was schreiben werde, werden wir schon in Quito sein und dann wird es bestimmt viel Interessanteres zu berichten geben.
Bis denn