Yeah...

So I'm starting to realize that this whole blog thing is turning into a once weekly sort of thing. I guess that's ok as most of the fun stuff that I want to talk about happens on the weekends. *shrug*

Well, this weekend is a little different as I didn't do anything really cool like go hiking in the rainforest again. I did have a day trip yesterday with my volcanology class but it was to a place called Cuicocha which I have already visited with my Kalamazoo group a few weeks ago. (its the volcano lagoon with the really cool islands in the middle, I'm sure that I talked about it at some point) I wouldn't have paid the $15 to go but it was a requirement for my class. Anyhoo, it would have been a fine time if it hadn't been for two things. Number one, that I only got 3.5 hours of sleep the night before (my fault, I know, but its just so hard to stop yourself from having fun and in all fairness we left at 6:30AM and I had to get up at least an hour before that). And number two that me and two of my other friends ended up getting stuck sitting outside of a closed museum for almost 2 hours trying to figure out what happend to the huge group of gringos that were just ahead of us. What happend was out giant group (filled 3 charter buses) split into two while half took a boat tour and the other half went to the museum. Well, there wasn't room on the boats for us and we missed to initial bus to the museum. So by the time we had walked up the hill the other group obviously realized that it was closed and went somewhere else. Where they ended up we may never know but we definately sat outside in the cold wind telling stupid stories hoping for everyone else to show up for quite a while. All in all, not a very productive day.

In other news due to today's national political elections, (Ecuador is voting to create an assembly to write a whole new constitution, my political science friends are in heaven) which are mandatory for all citizens, we have a wonderful thing here called the ley seca. In Spanish that means the dry law, AKA it is illegal to sell or consume alcohol in the country from last Friday at 12:00AM until tomorrow (Monday). As you can guess, we all went out and celebrated Thursday. It was my first time at a real dance club and it would have been a blast if I hadn't managed to pass out around 1AM. (I was NOT drunk) The best I can figure was I was dehydrated, but as I have continued to feel a dizzy from time to time over the past 3 days I'm thinking its something else. I think tomorrow I'm going to go see a doctor as my host Mom seems convinced I have a blood sugar problem. We'll see, all I'm hoping is that I'm not forbidden to eat sugar anymore because I'm not so sure I can survive this country right now without my oreos. :)

One more story to add to my random mix of happenings: Ever wondered what it would be like to be in Ecuador, home alone after dark, and in the bathroom when all power in the neighborhood goes out? Not so much fun and REALLY dark without even the street lamps outside to help. Thank God for my head lamp. hehe. But don't worry, it only lasted for about 5 minutes and I was just about to leave anyway, but let me tell you I was not very happy for those few minutes.

Now I sound pessimestic. Not everything that has happend this week has been bad, I swear. Its just that those little stories are more fun to share. I'll work this week on finding some happier ones.