Saludos de Quito! Stephen and I arrived on July 25th (after 26 hours of traveling on 3 trains and 2 planes). We spent the first week in a German-owned B&B in a northern Quito residential neighborhood, exploring Quiteño neighborhoods to find a place to live. After seeing many apartments, we finally were offered a room on top of our Spanish school. We share the kitchen with the school, and have the whole building to ourselves on the weekend. Good deal!
View from the balcony.
Our street, overlooking downtown Quito.
The school is a non-profit organization that helps to fund a home for handicapped children that the school director's family runs. There are usually no more than 5 Spanish students at a time, which allows the teachers and students to really get to know each other. The teachers and staff are really down-to-earth, kind & dedicated people. I feel really lucky to be here!
The adjustment to life in Quito is going... alright. The first few days I felt like a heifer, huffing and puffing while navigating Quito's hilly roads and thin air. Sometimes the pollution (think LA smog but at 10,000 feet!) makes my sinuses hurt. Experiencing culture shock really exacerbates my moods: I've had extreme highs and lows. Luckily I've experienced this before first-hand and learned about it at SIT so I feel better prepared to deal with it.
The pollution, congestion and city chaos has made the adjustment really difficult for Steve. Luckily we now have a place to live and he is going to start Spanish tomorrow so he won't have to leave our (relatively) tranquil neighborhood that often.
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