Here are some thoughts I want to share...
I love traveling. I have meet so many people who have been all over the world and I am so jealous. I will be doing lots more traveling. Wanna come with? Or take me somewhere? ;) I used to say/think that I would really only ever travel through Latin America, I didn't want to waste my money on a place other than a country that speaks Spanish. I think that is slowly changing, the world is just so big and I want to see it all. I'm still pretty hesitant about Europe, but all the other continents sound great.
With that, I am wanting to do more adventurey things. I was imagining myself stuggling through all these hikes and mountains and camping, and realized I am not good with this stuff and have no experience with it. But, I know someone who does! Jerad, I know we never really hang out, but I want to travel with you. Not just for your outdoorsy skills, but I think you would be a really good travel companion. Lets hitch hike to Colorado and camp our way up a Mountain, or go to the boundry waters, or the Grand Canyon. I really want to climb the volcano here in Ecuador, Chimborazo, with you. Also, there is this Galapagos volunteer work my awesome Spanish teacher was telling me about...you work on a farm during the week and have weekends to explore the islands. You pay the flight and enterance fee (total $650), and then for a month it costs only $300. In total that is signifigantly less than my time on the "mainland"! So get a job and lets go to Ecuador.
I hate this internet cafe. Actually, I hate them all. The retired women from England in my house has an iPad and I am so jealous of how much easier her life is with it. But with all the theft here. (its unbelievable how common it is), I feel like it would be really silly to buy a fancy gadget for my future travels. I do know that I want a smart phone when I return home though, no compromising there. So it's very silly for me to be a spoiled American with a laptop, smartphone AND tablet. But oh how nice they are...
Speaking of spending all my money, I've been reminded here of how much I LOVE stickshifts. Dad, while you're car shopping for me, keep them in mind! I want to learn so badly, I really couldn't tell you why. I would love a stick shift.
Question for you all, what's worse in a bathroom? No soap, no toilet paper, having to pay for it, or one that's co-ed? I regularly experience all of these things, but the worst is when it's a combo. No 25 year old Dutch freak, just because I am waiting in line for the same bathroom as you does not mean I want to chat with you while you use the urinal. And no paper AND no soap? I can deal with one of the two but both is gross.
Another thing I still haven't gotten used to is the kissing. In Mexico and other parts of the world people greet each other with a "kiss" but there´s generally two inches of air inbetween the faces. Here they are real contact kisses and it's rude not to make contact. It's okay with me when its a middle aged women, or someone I actually know and like, but when some twenty year old guy I just meet comes up and kisses me on the cheek in the same way a couple in the states would I am not a fan. Twice now I have watched a guy kiss a girl on the cheek, I assume they're dating, than a minute later I see him kiss another girl and I freak out in my head, "what is he doing?! Terrible person! Oh right...everyone kisses here"
Okay, those are my slightly unorganized, poorly spelled thoughts, while I was waiting to upload some pictures. I've wasted almost two hours of daylight just for 90 pictures or so, once again, I hate this internet cafe.
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