covered in mud

Haven’t updated in a while.
Last weekend I went to Montañita, a beach about three hours away. It’s primarily known for the large amount of marijuana and surfing. Although I did neither of those, I still had a really great time.

Today I went to Montecristi, about half an hour away from Portoviejo to climb a mountain! It’s actually just a hill, and not very far above sea level but it was fun. We took the bus to Montecristi, and walked up to the top part where the road goes. One of the guys we were with noticed that some kids had been following us, and that three of them had entered the trail to go up the mountain and one of them had stayed behind. And that seemed kind of fishy. So we killed time inside of the museum that is there at the top until they left. Walking up the mountain wasn’t particularly difficult, it was just really muddy. On one part, the trail got wider and I chose the wrong side to go up. I ended up getting stuck there because it was too slippery and I couldn’t go up or down. So I threw myself onto the ground a bit further over on the trail, hoping that that way, I could at least get back to the part that wasn’t terribly muddy. It didn’t work. I ended up sliding a good ways down the trail on my stomach instead. :) When we got to the top, we took a break and ate a bit, and then headed down. For some reason, the guys we were with decided to take the really dangerous way down. Lots of 6-9 foot drop offs and SO MANY loose rocks that liked to go crashing down the hill into the people in front of you. I spent a good portion of the time either sliding down on my butt or being caught after half-jumping-half-falling off of a cliff. It was very fun. Today I am sore though. :) And covered in tiny little scrapes and bruises. When I got home I had mud smeared all over my legs, shoes, shirt, arms and face. :) I don’t have any pictures right now but I will try to post some as soon as I can steal them from my friend’s camera. :)

Totally unrelated:

People like to say that math is the same in any language. It’s not. In the Spanish class that I am now in we had some major confusion.

One billion= 1,000,000,000

Un billón= 1,000,000,000,000

one trillion= 1,000,000,000,000

un trillón= 1, 000,000,000,000,000,000

Strange, isn’t it? I bet this has caused some major confusion in the past. I also learned how to say this number in Spanish: 31,415,926,535,897,932,384,626,433,832,795. I don’t know how to say it in English. But I thought that was interesting. It’s easier in Spanish.