Oh my god, there is too many things to mention Quito has
been the most amazing place to live. I don’t know if it’s more to do with the wonderful
friends I have made here or the incredible setting and atmosphere of this crazy
city, whatever it is down to it has been the perfect mix of everything.
Something I truly love about Ecuador is the fact you can buy almost anything on
the buses or from the bus window!
From dollar CD’s of pipe music ballads with
all the old classics including my personal favourite ‘The power of love’ played
by small unhappy looking Peruvian men, health vitamins ( that always promise to
make me younger looking and never do the job!) and this is my personal
favourite hologram pictures that everyone on the bus is just in awe of . I am
not sure if this is a new concept here but remember the in the 80’s when
everyone had them really tacky holograms of super ted or banana man, that when
you moved them it was freaking amazing because the photo changed! Well they
have arrived here and have photo’s Jesus on….. And oh my they love them, look
its Jesus and now its saint Christopher!
Now on to food as most of you know I cannot cook, well ok I
can I just don’t want to! Eating is just one of those things you have to do to …..well live, I have a small dislike for all people who like to tell you in
great detail about what particular herbs went into the dish they have cooked
for you and which famous chef’s recipe it is. Yes, I go down a storm at dinner
parties when I finish and announce that it was great it really filled a hole.
However, here in Ecuador there is no messing around, at lunch times you go into
an Almuerzo restaurant tell them you want to eat and they bring you a big plate
of whatever they have made in bulk that day. Lovely! Normally they start with a
soup and sometimes your lucky enough to find a chickens foot at the bottom, the
first couple of time this freaked me out now I consider it lucky. Then onto a
big plate of unidentified meat, veggies, rice and potatoes ( yes everything
comes with carb overload). Finished off with a nice little scoop of ice-cream,
all for the grand price of $2.50.
For this reason I just don’t cook here, why bother? Back in the UK I
think I will have a couple of problems but I am sure my mother will not mind
cooking, washing and ironing for her little girl again……! For all of you who
know my mother will be laughing at this, last time I went home I put my dirty
washing into the basket in the bathroom like I always used to do but nothing
came back in those nice little ironed bundles. So I ask my mum hey what’s
happing in the washing department in chez Agnes? Her reply was- Are those lazy
little elf’s not working hard enough for you?
So I guess I have to learn how to cook and do my own
washing, so rude!
Another thing is cleaning my own shoes, I know I am
beginning to sound like a princess right now. Oh that’s another thing I know I
blogged about the fact I hate Ecuadorian men calling my Princesa, Hermosa and
Guapa, but my god when I start dating back in the UK I know they will not be
calling my Beautiful princess. More like- darling fetch me another beer from
the fridge. Don’t worry the reply will be F*$k off! Anyway back to cleaning my
own shoes, there is a kid outside my work everyday and everyday he always spots
me from no matter what the distance and shouts-‘ sucio! Sucio!’ in literal
translation this is ‘dirty!dirty!’ he is referring to my shoes but Jesus kid!
Most mornings I am running late so cant get him to clean my shoes which seems
to anger him in knowing I will be walking around with dirty shoes all day. So
every morning he shouts DIRTY at me and I am shouting ‘Tranquil Flaco’
with the whole street staring at us. But I do feel I will even miss this daily confrontation!
All in all Ecuador you have been a blast and an amazing experience,
I will take away some unbelievable memories. Some I want to forget like being
pissed on by a sleeping child on a long distance bus or all the times I have
stood in the longest queues to be told wrong information or just simply told to
come back tomorrow. However, I love you!
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