My first month in Quito

Hola! Greetings from Ecuador!

So, I´ve been in Ecuador for one month as of today, and i realized that i hadn´t updated this in a really long time, so i thought I´d inform you of my first month in Ecuador´s events!

First, I´m going to tell you about my Spanish School. Today was the last day, and i realized i hadn´t even told you i was IN Spanish school! I didn´t realize until today that i actually did like it. I learned a lot from it and i loved hanging out with all of the other exchange students! The class was all in Spanish, so it got confusing at some points, but it really helped my spanish alot! i´m understanding more and more every day. I´m getting a lot better at speaking the language too! Today, the last day in my spanish class, each group (the class was split into groups based on our levels of Spanish) had to perform something, using the Spanish they had learned. My group put on a fashion show! it was so much fun! We all wore different styles of clothing. I was dressed for sports, in my PE uniform from school! I had a great time! and although, my class is over, i´m going to see all the exchange students again in 3 weeks because that´s when our first rotary trip is! we´re going to the beach, which is, i believe, 5 hours from Quito. We´re taking buses to get there and i´m so excited!

Okay, so the next thing, is my real school! it´s called La Colegio de America. It´s all girls, so it´s taken some getting used to, but I actually really like it! Everyone is so friendly and welcoming. i had absolutely no trouble making friends, which is really good, because that´s one of the things i was worried about. I´m taking sooo many classes, and they´re really tough for me since i can´t speak the language that well yet! i don´t understand anything the teachers say, but they´re really nice and help me alot. So do the other kids. I have PE on mondays and Fridays, which i dont like very much because up here, with the altitude and everything, i get out of breath really fast, so PE is actually really hard for me here! but i´ll get used to it.

Now for the places in Quito that i´ve been. This could be really long, so i´ll just give a brief description of each of them and if you want to know more, you can email me any time!

Okay, so first for Basilica. It´s a huuuuuuge church, and it is so gorgeous! All of the churches here are big and gorgeous, but this one was my favorite! This church was sooo tall. Me and my friends went all the way to the top, which scared me to death since i´m scared of heights! But once we got up there, i was so glad that I´d climbed all the way up because the view was amazing! It was just breathtaking and absolutely gorgeous. I loved it!

Another really cool place i went was the historical center of Quito. It has all of these old houses and churches. It also contains, i dont know what to call it...the capital building, i guess. That was really cool to see. There were also lots of cool historical museums and shops. I had so much fun looking around!

I also got to stand on both sides of the world at once! That was so cool! It was really exciting. There was a big monument there too and lots of museums, which i really enjoyed visiting.

Oh, this is silly, but one of my favorite places that i went was the zoo with my sister. I love zoos and this one was particularly neat because it contained animals that only live in Ecuador. It had other animals too, like lions and kangaroos. I especiallly loved all of the different kinds of monkeys. This was really cool because i live so far away from the amazonia, so i won´t be able to go there for awhile! Actually, ill be going there in February for the next rotary trip, so i´m pretty excited about that. i love animals and am so psyched to see all the wild animals in Ecuador!

Okay, so there´s probably more, but i´m tired and can´t think of anything else...but if i think of anything, i´ll add it!

Chao for now!