independence day.

so today was the first day i got to take the bus back and forth and explore all by myself! today...was my independence day! after a great AIESEC meeting after a great AIESEC night last night (the EB is hilarious here!) i went back to xime´s house, ate lunch and ventured on my way!

so i jumped (literally bc the buses dont stop for no one here) onto the bus and made my way to avenida amazonas where i would take my first spanish lessons...or so i thought...

so i had gotten onto the right bus but i kind of pre-ejacked off the bus about 15 minutes before i should have...i kept walking thinking i would eventually get to the place i needed to, but of course that didnt happen...and i began walking from a large intersection to a sketchy corner near a motor junkyard...needless to say i was frightened especially after a bus and 3 trucks honked, whistled and hissed at me (its so bad here...i could be wearing a freakin moomoo and be 389 lbs and theyd still do that)...

at this point i hail a cab and ask the cabbie to take me to la católica because from there i could get anywhere i needed to be...and i did! but now without a few bumps along the way...

first i realize that the key that opens my bag (yes i have a lock on my bag...if u knew my parents ud understand) is missing and my spare is at the house so i cant open my bag...then a stranger came up to me telling me about his book of short stories that he wrote...at first i thought it was a robbery scam bc i had just read about them in my lonely planet ecaudor and the galapagos book so i clutched my bag really tight, but he wound up being very genuine :) we talked for a bit and i told him i was here for 3 months and he said thatd hed be here for 3 weeks and that if he wanted we could travel together...now i dont know how much i trust this but i gave him my email anyway so we´ll see how everything goes...

then i passed a group of girls and heard english and got really excited so i talked to them for a bit and asked where they were from and then went on my merry way...

so i finally found the spanish school and took an hour lesson :) it was really great and helpful! but of course bc i couldnt open my bag i couldnt pay them but they let me off the hook until tomorrow :)

then i got on the bus and came back...it was the most liberating feeling in the world...plus i saw the most beautiful man on the bus and proceeded to have an intense 15 minute day dream about us falling in love and getting married and painting our family room...yea whatever im a girl.

thus concludes my independence day...and what a day it was.