I went to the hamburger stand around the corner earlier this week with two friends. We bought 5 hamburgers and three drinks. Want to guess how much we paid? $3.80. Yes. $3.80. AMAZING. They’re good hamburgers too.
I go to a public school, but since Ecuador is SO CATHOLIC, they have religion classes. Which is kind of weird for me. I’ve gotten used to the whole separation between church and state thing. Yesterday I was in the library at school reading a book about Ecuador, when the two librarians asked me if I wanted to come and do their advent reading with them. So I did, and it was cool. Something that TOTALLY surprises me is the number of people who have asked me if I celebrate Christmas. Apparently other Christian religions are not very popular and most people know nothing about them. It is strange how many times I have been asked if Christians celebrate Christmas.
In my English class last week, we were listening to a tape that goes along with their textbook, and I SWEAR one of the voices sounded exactly like Alvin the Chipmunk. We listened to this conversation at least 5 times and by the end of it, I wanted to pull out all of my hair.
Other than the annoying chipmunk voices, school has been going well.
Last night I went with my host mom to a Christmas carol competition between high schools. It was quite fun.
Here’s a picture of the Christmas tree and manger-scene at my house! You probably can’t see, but on the manger scene, all of the animals have gathered, along with some of Ricardo’s dinosaurs and shells, to wait for baby Jesus to arrive. :)
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