Hi everybody at home in Germany!
I can not believe it did not want me two weeks ago was allowed to celebrate my 5-month-day.
..a rather long time that I'm already here, who hurried past, but also very fast to me ... I can not imagine, almost half a year here in Ecuador, too far away from his home.
However, I can also say with certainty that I now resulted in a 2nd have found at home, with a really nice host family, lots of great friends that I miss now when I think of my journey home and all in a small but incredibly diverse, exciting and beautiful country.
I'm doing really good and everything is currently running very well.
An Overview on a typical week here looks to me like this:
course I'm going to school, must therefore rise up early in the morning at half past 6, have breakfast and am therefore the first to leave the house.
school is going well. In the tests, I try to answer what I understand and homework, which really are not much help, something to improve my English, which also is getting better day by day. Most teachers are very receptive and interested, check now and then, as I am and are still trying desperately to speak some English with me can. Since then, however, is something like: "How are you do?" Is muy cold. "Or the like out. So it's always funny and relaxed relationship between students and teachers.
Many of my classmates want me no longer even have to go with me and have already reserved a space in your suitcase, so I'll take her to Germany. All are still very helpful and have welcomed me well.
The school ends to 2 clock, then we go with the school bus home. My family has two housekeepers, so the food is already warm on the table when I enter the kitchen.
goes after the meal varies according to weekday. Many a time are of course homework in which I try to be as good as she can do. Often, however, first placed on the bed and rested for a few minutes before going to work.
3 times a week I had salsa lessons, but only in the evening at half-eighth We are in the process to rehearse a choreography, which is not exactly easy but super funny, especially with all the nice people in my dance class.
Volleyball I play now, after I changed the team this week, 2 times per week. Yesterday was my first
training in the new team. There, now girls from different schools and play all play really damn good. After 2 hours of training I'm just tired fell into bed and realize even now my bones. I am very happy here to be able to exercise a team sport.
My friends I see often on weekends, but also occasionally in the week. Then, just to chat, eat ice cream or made similar, and of course on the weekend to go and have fun!
My host family, 2 sisters, brother, cousin and my parents are super sweet to me. Thanks to so many host brothers and sisters I am never alone, and so is always something going on.
On the weekends I would naturally like to see as much experience of Ecuador. For me it was therefore already on the "Cotopaxi", after "Otavalo," on the "Teleferico", to the beach, after "Mindo" and I'm sure there are still a lot more experience!
The weather here is mostly unchanged and we have between 15 and 25 degrees, so very pleasant.
Soon's going for me with my entire family to "Coca" in the Orient, where we celebrate the baptism of two children of a cousin of my siblings.
This cousin has even invited me to accompany him for a few days at work. I still do not know exactly what he does, but he already knows all of Ecuador and most other South American countries, as it must travel a lot. Soon it will go for it and a few colleagues in the north of Ecuador, and so that I can learn about the neighborhood there, he takes me. If that's not "cool" is not it? I'm curious if this works first of course, because there is not anything set correctly.
On 12 March, I can not wait, finally it's off to the Amazon region, with some other exchange students - we are divided into groups.
And in May, which lasts still, I may be found on the Galapagos Islands again.
A dream!
I'm so sure, still a very nice time here in Ecuador and are expected to have In early July start my return journey.
Life here is just completely different in every respect and thus almost hard to describe. You might just have to experience to understand it.
course there are things that I particularly liked but also many things to which I can now also be used with difficulty.
is very relaxed here, the way how the Ecuadorians plan, not fact. Time has hardly any meaning, the main thing is done the things you have done over the course of the day.
always problems to be solved and there's almost always compromises.
Almost all are warmly greeted each other and is of course always with a kiss on the cheek, even with people you do not know.
Where can I get used to is difficult to turn is the constant waiting on anyone, because I have really learned to know still no Ecuadorians who is not punctual.
Another difficult situation here is poverty, which can be seen with naked eyes and everywhere: young children who are trying to sell candy beggars, the sick and disabled people who walk through the streets with placards and ask for some money and young people who want to earn at traffic lights or other tricks with juggling a few dollars.
Although I am now quite a while here But such images are shockingly over again.
However, as I said, one can understand this is definitely a lot better if you have experienced life here itself. In order to get
times at the end of my report, I wish all best wishes from Ecuador and I can repeat again and again: Thank you, that I must be here!
up soon
Julia
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