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Happy St. Patrick´s Day!!! (tomorrow)
We´ll start this one off with an embaressing story. On Friday, Katie left for Quito because her family is coming in for 9 days to visit. So during my first afternoon without another English speaking person, I go to sit down while holding a kid, and riiip! I was stepping on the leg of my pants and tore a big hole! I wanted to laugh so hard at that moment but nobody was in the room. I went on working and then Nicole showed up and luckily had an extra pair of pants for rare situations such as this. I told the other girls when they arrived and then was able to laugh with someone.
Things here are moving along though weekends in Tena move slowly. So after work on Friday I asked the others if they wanted to do something or go somewhere this weekend and they planned our day trip. Saturday was a very warm day so after spending some time at the Internet, I went home and literally laid on my bed for a bit. Nicole called later and invited me to visit the Parque Amazonico again with her and her daughter. Then we went to get some pizza and were joined by her friend Rommel. I grabbed a quick drink with him afterwards and headed home.
The next day was the day trip with my co-workers. It was the PT, Alexandra and her son and husband, the PT student Pamela and her son, mom, and sister, and the volunteer PT, Jenny. We all piled into a truck together for the trip. Babies here do not use carseats (except for Nicole) so the kids sat on their mom´s laps for the trip and two people rode in the bed of the truck. This is all very normal here.
So we made the 1-1.5 hour trip to Puyo. There we walked around a bit before grabbing lunch, typical to that city. It was a plate with chochos (kind of like a bean), fried corn, fried plaintains, tomato and onion salad, and tuna. Then we went to Rio Tigre for a swim. It was a nice day so we had a good time swimming around in the river wáter made to look like a pool. Afterwards, we got grilled maduros filled with cheese and hung around. Then we got these huge popsicles filled with frozen fruit all smushed together. It was very good but I was full by the end of it! It was a good day though and nice to spend some time with people.
I am bummed to be missing all the Xavier games...and it was weird to miss every Olympic event. I have caught some soccer and voli games here (their version of volleyball, 3 people on each side over a really high net).
I hope everyone has a great St. Patrick´s Day! Katie´s family is bringing some green dye so we can have some green beers here in Tena.
We´ll start this one off with an embaressing story. On Friday, Katie left for Quito because her family is coming in for 9 days to visit. So during my first afternoon without another English speaking person, I go to sit down while holding a kid, and riiip! I was stepping on the leg of my pants and tore a big hole! I wanted to laugh so hard at that moment but nobody was in the room. I went on working and then Nicole showed up and luckily had an extra pair of pants for rare situations such as this. I told the other girls when they arrived and then was able to laugh with someone.
Things here are moving along though weekends in Tena move slowly. So after work on Friday I asked the others if they wanted to do something or go somewhere this weekend and they planned our day trip. Saturday was a very warm day so after spending some time at the Internet, I went home and literally laid on my bed for a bit. Nicole called later and invited me to visit the Parque Amazonico again with her and her daughter. Then we went to get some pizza and were joined by her friend Rommel. I grabbed a quick drink with him afterwards and headed home.
The next day was the day trip with my co-workers. It was the PT, Alexandra and her son and husband, the PT student Pamela and her son, mom, and sister, and the volunteer PT, Jenny. We all piled into a truck together for the trip. Babies here do not use carseats (except for Nicole) so the kids sat on their mom´s laps for the trip and two people rode in the bed of the truck. This is all very normal here.
So we made the 1-1.5 hour trip to Puyo. There we walked around a bit before grabbing lunch, typical to that city. It was a plate with chochos (kind of like a bean), fried corn, fried plaintains, tomato and onion salad, and tuna. Then we went to Rio Tigre for a swim. It was a nice day so we had a good time swimming around in the river wáter made to look like a pool. Afterwards, we got grilled maduros filled with cheese and hung around. Then we got these huge popsicles filled with frozen fruit all smushed together. It was very good but I was full by the end of it! It was a good day though and nice to spend some time with people.
I am bummed to be missing all the Xavier games...and it was weird to miss every Olympic event. I have caught some soccer and voli games here (their version of volleyball, 3 people on each side over a really high net).
I hope everyone has a great St. Patrick´s Day! Katie´s family is bringing some green dye so we can have some green beers here in Tena.
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