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.

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