Day One

Things I learned today:

-Four hours of sleep is NEVER enough
-Don't confuse the jam for ketchup and accidenly put it on your eggs
-Walk is Stop
-I am a Gringa =\
-Both the bus and the trolley are just 25 cents per ride
-People get bird poop thrown on them so they are distracted so someone can mug them
-Lin Manuel Miranda (look him up. he's a genious) has a bald twin
-Hoggwarts is not the only school with moving pictures
-I have a restaurant named after me in Ecuador
-Cheese and sugar are not a bad combo
-Cab drivers are very stubborn
-I am EXHAUSTED

well, that last one I didn't really learn...but I am sooo flipping tired.
Today was a big day. We traveled a lot and didn't get much sleep because of our delayed flight.

First off, this morning we had breakfast (eggs, bread and butter and orange juice), and then we all went into a conference room type place and we talked about safety. It was supposed to scare us into being overly cautious...and lets just say they did their job well. They told us horror stories that happed to past BCA students and some other stories that happened to american tourists in the past couple weeks. It was a very informative talk, to say the least. =]

Then we walked to the mall, which is right down the street and we got some lunch. Nikki and I were so tired that we just got a piece of pizza from a Sabarro and came back to the Hostel and fell asleep for a little bit. After that, we went to the universidad to take a tour. We stopped to get some local ice cream on the way. (mine was called Taxo, which is like a passion fruit that grows up in the mountains, I think. It was good. We got a tour of the campus by a few students and one who was a BCA student last year and is just finnishing up her internship for this summer. The campus is soo huge I don't know how I'm going to memorize everything. But, even so, I'm excited. We finished up the day at a restaurant for dinner. I had emanadas con queso, chicken and potatoes and then ''torta a la moda'' for dessert. It was a very filling meal.

To get back to the hostel, we had to hail our own taxi and barter with them for a price to get home. Eventually we just settled and paid $2 for three of us because we were so tired. But, apparenly tomorrow we will get plenty of more practice with taxis....joy. =]

As for now, I NEED to get some sleep. My head is pounding and my eyes are falling closed as I write this.
Buenos Noches


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