I made it to Puerto Lopez, but got my laptop stolen on the bus when I was sleep. I was quite impressed with the sneekiness of the theif as I had my backpack at my feet the whole time.
Puerto Lopez is beautiful. My host family lives about 5 minutes walk from the beach. I have a 22 yr old host brother, Angel, and my host mom's name is Elsa. They have been very nice. I spent most of the past two days at the beach since there is not much volunteer work to do because of Holy Week. When I start work on Monday I am going to be teaching English at the elementary school in the morning, and then working on a stormwater design and construction in the afternoon for the school. Apparently, they are having flooding problems.
Quito was a pretty cool city. The day I was there I did a city tour. The church there is quite impressive, and compares to Notre Dame.
Some highlights from the past few days:
-I saw a giant St. Bernard dog try to kill another smaller dog. It was pretty intense. The bigger dog was on top of the small dog tearing into its neck. Some locals started hitting the dog with bycicles to save the small dog, which eventually worked. The small dog was bleeding, but I think it was ok.
-I accidently hit a guy sunbathing in the nuts with a soccer ball. It was pretty embarrassing, and he was super mad, and cussed me out. I am terrible at soccer.
-If anyone is wondering what happened to all of the Sacagewea dollars, they are all in Ecuador.
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