Arrived in Quito!

I have officially arrived in Ecuador! It was pretty crazy leading up to leaving, with Spencer´s graduation the day before I left, but after eighteen hours of traveling I am finally here! The country is beautiful and the people are great. It is great being with a group, and the field directors have been extremely helpful in terms of getting everything organized and ready for us. We got in really late last night and everyone was exhausted, so we all just went to bed, but today has been packed full of orientation events, ice breakers, a small safety talk (before the bigger one tomorrow), and even a scavenger hunt where we were in groups and had to find different things around the Mariscal area of Quito. So far everyone is getting along extremely well and it looks like we will all be able to do a little bit of traveling to different cities while we are here.

I haven´t learned much else about my site placement, other than that it is officially university students and not adults. I am very excited to teach! I will start living with my host family next Thursday when I travel to Riobamba. I can´t wait to meet them! It will be a totally different living experience going from being one of two children in the house, to suddenly being one of five, but I am very optimistic and interested to get a taste of what a big family is like.

Since I found this internet cafe that is dirt cheap, I have thankfully already been able to call my parents (for only $.05 per minute!!!!!), and hopefully I´ll be able to make a few more calls soon. Hopefully when I get to Riobamba I will be able to have the same sort of experience with internet cafe phones, otherwise most of the computers here have Skype. Oh and to anyone who was randomly wondering, Ecuador is on central time, so there has been no time change for me which is REALLY nice.

I will post soon with more updates from orientation, but for now, Adios!