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Thursday, February 7, 2013

Brief Rant- internet cafes

So lots of awesome things have happed here in Ecuador, but I am going to be silly and choose to spend my rareish computer time ranting about how much I hate internet cafes.

They smell. There is always someone looking at porn. The chairs always suck. They never have bathrooms. People stand behind me and watch what I'm doing. They don't always have Google Chrome, so I have to wait for it to download. They are always ancient computers without SD slots.

But mostly, they are SO SLOW.

Yesterday I spent an hour and 45 minutes trying to upload about 90 pictures. And at that time, they STILL weren't fully uploaded, and the store was closing (another thing I hate, they all close at 6). Thankfully I was smart and did it in two halfs, so at least some of my pictures were saved. The other half, all that time for nothing. And now of course, about 25 of those pictures and a brief video clip aren't on my SD card and I've now I've lost precious pictures twice. Thankfully they were all scenery pictures, sucks to lose them but they're not super personal.

If you're taking time out of your day to read this silly post you probably already know this, but additionally, a lot of my pictures that did "upload" turned out like this...


Well that sure is pretty huh? Seriously. 

Okay, well sorry to complain so much. It's hard to come up with blog post topics so today I just spit up what was on my mind. Speaking of spitting up, I love bananas, I really do. And I love that they cost about 12 cents here. But lately, I've been just eating my banana and all of a sudden I start to gag. I think if I had a normal gag reflex I would actually throw up. I have no idea why this keeps happening, I like bananas and they are good! 

Okay now I am still ranting but at least in a little more positive way. Last night I talked really fast to the 60 year old English lady who is living in the same house, she got a kick out of it. I also tried talking to the cab driver at the same speed in Spanish but he didn't understand me, but that was probably moreso because of my accent and poor grammar. 

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