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Good morning world. It’s 10:12 Ecuador time, and I have absolutely nothing pressing to do today. Fascinating, am I correct? All I’ve done today is clean the floor, clean my shoes, and get a talking to from my host mom. That’s right. Allison got in a spot of trouble. Well, it wasn’t really so much trouble as it was just an admonishment. I’ve had Jan over to the house hundreds of times (and more so lately because he’s been having problems at his house), but Friday, host mom decided that it simply just wasn’t alright. Oh well. She just told me she didn’t like it, I said I understood, she said she wanted good communication between us, and that was the end of it. No biggie.
Let’s skip back to last Sunday. I said I would go to church, didn’t I? HA. Instead I slept, not that my host mom minded since she was horridly sick. We pretty much hung out for the day, and then randomly around seven o’ clock at night, Josh and Collin show up at my house, telling me they’d been desperately trying to call me. My cell phone had bit the dust, so of course I hadn’t heard anything, but basically, they told me Emily (from Australia lives in Quito) was coming to Portoviejo on Monday and she needed a place to stay for the week. They wanted to know if she could stay here. I looked at them doubtfully, pursed my lips and twisted my hands as the two of them shot puppy eyes. I knew I’d have to ask HM, being that permission from her would be hard obtained, not to mention there was a certain amount of risk involved. Emily didn’t tell Rotary in Quito and definitely not MY Rotary club, so if this crashed on her head, it would be my head as well.
But all I did was nod.
Surprisingly, my host mom said yes quickly, and we were a go. Karen was in on all of this, as she was the ‘contact number’ for Emily’s mom. Somehow…. It seemed like it was all going to go off without a hitch. The next day, I went to the terminal in the afternoon to go pick up Emily. I wandered around a bit drawing attention, then I finally got a phone call from her. After discussion, it was decided that Emily was thoroughly lost. I hadn’t known that there was a smaller terminal in Centro that was sometimes used. Ugh. But I got her down to my house, although she somehow lost her cell phone in a taxi within half an hour of getting into Portoviejo. We went to Luke’s house, hung out there, then back to my house for the night. We made a quick drive to Manta for some money thing with my host parents, then came back to Portoviejo and ate hamburgers before collapsing.
Tuesday was Emily’s first day in my school, and no surprise – She loved it. She said she has no exchange kiddies in her school, so having 11 of us all in one place must’ve been quite the experience. I got not one question from any teacher or inspector; they’re so used to us just showing up with random people they don’t even bother to ask anymore. It was on Tuesday night that we got our little shock… Emily’s mom called Karen’s cell to tell Emily to call her (since Emily lost her cell phone) so we did. Emily’s host mom had talked to the Quito Rotary about Emily going to Portoviejo… OOPS. Quito didn’t have the same reaction as Fernando, thank God; they seem to be rather chill about the entire thing, but they moved Emily’s return date up to Thursday. They actually wanted her to take a plane back to Quito, but that was definitely out of the question.
Wednesday was another tricky day. I have Rotary every Wednesday of course, but Emily couldn’t go to the Rotary meeting with me. So she just stayed with a couple of the boys and they went out together and I picked her up after the Rotary meeting. The district trip is approaching frighteningly fast. I see my Dad and Judy next Wednesday, and then… Wow. Less than a week and it’s the last trip, and then people begin to leave. Time’s like liquid. Fernando didn’t show last week, so I didn’t get to ask him about going to Guayaquil with Dad and Judy a day earlier. Looks like the exchange kiddies go down on the 28th to Guayaquil, but I want to stay the night there with my parental units on the 27th. I’ll be going to the beach on Thursday (probably Crucita. I wish it was Manta. Manta is better.) with Dad and Judy; depending if the host parents decide to come along I might be able to tow a couple of the exchange kiddies with me if we go by bus, which is so much cheaper anyways. I hope they let me alone so we can go to Manta.
Thursday, we got Emily all packed off to Quito, and we got our uniforms for the school Olympics. Did I mention? No? We have no school all next week, just sports playing! In other words, I get to go be athletic for the entire week in volleyball and basketball. And for the girls we’re playing six on six volleyball. I will totally rule at this. But anyways, we bought new uniforms for it at sixteen bucks a pop, but I got cheated on my shirt. They gave me one two sizes too small and with my name spelled as ‘Alisson’ even though I’d given the lady a piece of paper with my name on it. Fail. So she took it back and we’re hoping I get a good one on Monday. The boys uniforms look so much nicer than ours… I’m jealous. We had a ‘desfile’, or parade on Thursday night to start it all off. It was also a mini modeling show, and we had Monika be the model for our class. She looked quite stunning, but she got second place and was disappointed. I have lots of pictures to post up on Facebook; I think I’ll do that today.
Friday I went to go watch Jan and Oliver do the track and field events. I threw the shot put too because I could, and I’m still pretty good at it. Poor Oliver did the distance run and was dying by the end of it, and Jan did long jump (I got some funny pictures of that too). Sports for me start on Monday, and I’m excited for it! Tomorrow it just looks like another hang out day, although I have a couple of movies to watch, so that might help it roll along.
Love you all lots and lots, and I can’t wait to see you (Dad & Judy)!
Next blog update = ??? I doubt I’ll be able to get on during the trip, so it’ll probably be after the trip in another SUPER BLOG post which is a million pages along. We’ll see.
Also I LOVE EMILY SORG AWESOME PACKAGE
