Wednesday, December 28, 2005

ECUADOR!

Yes, that is the final destination for Hermana Russell. Quito, Ecuador which straddles the equator. The girl who shuts down when it gets above 30 c, the girl who becomes paralyzed upon the discovery of a spider in the bathroom, the girl who made it through Spanish joking and pronouncing everything with a Southern accent, the WHITE-EST most sunburnable woman in the world - going to Ecuador. Here's some fun facts about this dynamic country:

1. Although Ecuador marked 25 years of civilian governance in 2004, the period has been marred by political instability. Seven presidents have governed Ecuador since 1996.

2. Frequent earthquakes, landslides, volcanic activity; floods; periodic droughts

3. 13,363,593 people to an area smaller than Nevada.

4. Organized illegal narcotics operations in Colombia penetrate across Ecuador's shared border and caused over 20,000 refugees to flee into Ecuador in 2004.

5. Significant transit country for cocaine originating in Colombia and Peru; importer of precursor chemicals used in production of illicit narcotics; attractive location for cash-placement by drug traffickers laundering money because of dollarization and weak anti-money-laundering regime, especially vulnerable along the border with Colombia; increased activity on the northern frontier by trafficking groups and Colombian insurgents.

So there you have it. Is it Provo...no. I'm not completely negative about it, the people are wonderful and it is apparently breathtakingly beautiful. And I will be able to do welfare work which is where my heart truly lies (as does my mother's fears). I am excited...terrified, but excited. I know that's where I am supposed to be, there's no question of that. You never know, maybe I'll fall in love with it and spend the rest of my life there with my drug lord husband. All joking aside, I will go and do the things which the Lord commands. I can do this, and I can do it well. I just hope I don't wake up in the middle of the night with a cockroach on my face... I'm gonna be sick again.

ps
Anyone with any Spanish experience please contact me and help me. Please help me.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

hey cindy it sounds like heaven and that isnt a joke, you will love it. i do know a great friend from chile who taught me spanish, very well a few years ago, i could hook you up only if i can come live with you and your druglord husband. i plan on obtaining my own cartel and retiring in the mountains, let me know, love ya amy

David said...

I think Quito is at a pretty high altitude as well.

If I learned anything from three years of high school Spanish, it's that you need to conjugate the crap out of your verbs depending on tense, and some of the tenses are different than in English.

...but it's been six years since I was in high school Spanish, so I can only give so much advice.