La vida en Cuenca

Yesterday 75 percent of Ecuador voted sí for a new constitution. It´s going to be an interesting time.

Life´s pretty sweet in Cuenca. I am living with an awesome family. I have my own room with a TV and a lock...hey it sounds better than my room at home. hahaha. The Sierra is so much different than the Costa. People here are much more conservative. Ejemplo, the night I arrived it was there was abig party because it has been 450 since Cuenca´s founding. The fesitivies wrapped up around 12:30am. In la costa the party wouldn´t have begun until 1:30am. ¡En serio! The weather´s pretty crazy here. When we wake up it can be freezing and overcaste, then sunny and warm mid-day and start pouring in the afternoon. It´s difficult getting dressed in the morning, I never know what to wear. I like the tranquility of this city. Moreover, being the independent women that I am, I enjoy being able walk around here alone without worry.

I had my first day in the AIESEC office today. Which consisted of meetings with different VPs and there was an EB (executive board) meeting. It was entertaining. The office is about twice the size of the one in York, with a quarter of the stuff. One sad computer, which I asume could be around the same age as me, a bristle board and not much else. Get this, you can smoke in the office. ¡Qué bueno! eh?

I am heading back to Guayaquil on wednesday night for a conference that begins on thursday morning. It is being held in a military compound. Man, I fucking love this country. I haven´t stopped smiling since I got off the plane.

My iPod broke the other day. Yep, not even 3 months in my possesion and it broke. I wrote Apple a strongly worded email. I signed it from ¨an unimpressed PC user who just had her skepticism of Apple validated¨ I can´t wait for the response.

Until next time,
Steph