News from Cuenca...

Spent my second week here trying to memorize a whole bunch of new vocabulary and sentence structures (gosh - it´s so much to learn!!!), drinking Mojitos, taking more Salsa-lessons and dancing the night away at ´La Mesa´, a cool new Salsa-club we found. The people there, mostly locals, are craaaazy!!! The way they dance Salsa is just not from this world! Of course we can´t keep up with them, but it´s still fun to dance a little or just watch them doing their crazy spins and bouncing off the walls.

We went horseback-trekking this weekend which was awesome!!! We drove to this place a bit south of Cuenca, got the horses ready and then got to enjoy some awesome views of the surrounding area. We went up this mountain (on really steep, small and slippery trails) and then got to ride along the mountain ridge and came back down after lunch. The loop we did took about 4 hours and now my butt is hurting like hell after some wild and crazy galloping where the 4 horses tried chasing each other. It was loads of fun though!

From Ecuador

The guy who went with us, Fernando, has his own little farm in the countryside and told us a bit about the work he is doing. He´s trying to be as self-sufficient as possible, growing his own fruits and vegetables and selling his own products (dried fruit, jerky and other stuff). It sounded really interesting and we might go and stay with him for a while and help out at his farm when we´re done with our language course in two weeks. I think it´d be really interesting to see and experience what the life in the Ecuadorian countryside is like... how the people live, work etc. We´ll see what happens. Maybe our plans to go to Peru are gonna get postponed for now.