The past few days have been very eventful. Sunday was the Super Bowl, today is Super Tuesday, and all the while Latin America has been celebrating Carnaval (don´t worry Parenting Team, I´m making good choices).
I spent the weekend at Playa Escondida, a secluded beach/ecological reserve on the Ecuadorian coast. The beach had almost no tourists. My friends and I were able to spend the days swimming in peace and hiking to fishing villages, and the nights in a cabana, enveloped in mosquito netting. My room was made almost entirely out of bamboo, had no windows, and had incomplete walls on two sides. There was a hammock next to one of the short walls and a house next to the other. Consequently, I could not change without lying on the floor and squirming like a worm.
When I got back from the beach last night, I moved in with my host family. They are very friendly. This morning I sat with my host mother for a few hours and chatted.
I hope that you all enjoy the big night tonight (of course I mean Super Tuesday, not Mardi Gras/Fat Tuesday/Carnaval). I know that I will be watching CNN en Español.
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- Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty (Muhammad Yunus)
- Candide (Voltaire)
- Catch 22 (Joseph Heller)
- Equus (Peter Shaffer)
- Full Circle: A South American Journey (Luis Sepúlveda) (also known as Patagonia Express)
- Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu (J. Maarten Troost)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (JK Rowling)
- Hija de la Fortuna (Isabel Allende)
- Interpreter of Maladies (Jhumpa Lahiri)
- Life, the Universe and Everything (Douglas Adams)
- Little Pink Slips (Sally Koslow)
- Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (Barbara Ehrenreich)
- Sexo en Nueva York (Spanish translation of Sex in the City) (Candace Bushnell)
- Sophie's World (Jostein Gaarder)
- Symposium (Plato)
- The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
- The Glass Castle (Jeannette Walls)
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
- The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
- The Lost Continent (Bill Bryson)
- The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court (Jeffrey Toobin)
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Douglas Adams)
- The Trial of Henry Kissinger (Christopher Hitchens)
- The Witches of Eastwick (John Updike)
- Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations One School at a Time (David Oliver Relin and Greg Mortenson)
- Tunnel Vision (Sara Paretsky)
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1 comment:
Hey Sweetie!
Mary and I were wondering about you! Thanks for posting.
I'm glad you had a great weekend. I wasn't worried about you making bad choices.
Superbowl. Wowzers! I don't usually watch those. But I'm glad I watched that one. It was an amazing drama.
Mary and I both voted for Obama. Turnout appears to be really really high. But what's interesting is that a lot of people are reporting that they made up their minds at the last minute. They just couldn't decide.
Love you lots!
Dad
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