We arrived!

Ashleigh and I arrived safely! We left Chicago and 3:00 am yesterday morning (which seems like days ago!) and arrived in Quito at 1:30 pm yesterday afternoon. We were taken to our new residence for the next 6 weeks and met out host mom. Her name is Francia. She is really sweet! She is an older woman and her kids are all grown up. She doesn't speak much English, which I suppose is good because it is forcing me to use my terrible Spanish! Hopefully I learn quickly.

Today I had to take the worst shower of my life! The water was freezing cold!! I couldn´t breathe. I´m really hoping there was just something wrong with the so called ¨hot¨ water this morning, but I have a bad feeling that I might have to get used to some shocking morning wake ups in the shower.

Ashleigh and I spent this morning touring the Old City. It´s beautiful! I think I like it better than the New City. There are a lot of old churches and cathedrals. We climbed the towers of the basilica and could see the entire city. But I think we got ripped off because some guy told us we had to buy tickets to climb the towers, but then no one collected the tickets.... well live and learn I guess. We are having fun so far. It´s so wierd being in a place where I stick out like a sore thumb- I´m white, tall, and obviously do not know where I am going. Tomorrow we start our language classes and will meet our program director. I´m excited to meet the other students next week.

That´s all for now!