Sunday, January 22, 2006

Preparation

Alright the details:

I leave Windhoek for Ecuador on February 3rd - less than 2 weeks! It’s a crazy series of flights, Windhoek to Johannesburg to Atlanta to Miami to Ecuador with an overnight or two in between, but I arrive finally around lunch time in Quito, the capital city. …it has occurred to me that I am making the assumption that Ecuadorians a) eat lunch at 11:40ish and b) eat lunch in general.

If you wish to send me mail, this is my mailing address for the duration of my program (from February 5 to May 20).

Elsita Kiekebusch
c/o Ana de Alvear
Experimento de Convivencia Internacional
Hernando de La Cruz N31-37 y Mariana de Jesus
Quito, Ecuador

As far as I can tell, only people with blogs can post comments on the page but feel free to write me an email at the usual account and also to forward the link to friends.
Anyways, I’m on the last leg of my vacation and getting pretty excited and nervous at the same time. I’ve been reading up on Ecuador, but the program’s mandatory reading has been mostly scientific literature about tropical rainforest biodiversity and the Galapagos Islands. So far I have resolved not to make any assumptions about Ecuadorians before I get there and also not to be eaten by an over-defensive mother caiman guarding her brood during the dry season.

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