Where is the @ at???

A short entry today... First and foremost, a big THANKS to everyone who sent me emails today! Awesome! Keep em´coming!!!

This whole week is dedicated to learning about all the potential volunteer sites available in Ecuador. The counterparts from the sponsoring local organizations come (many from great distances) to briefly talk about the jobs and the communities. Since there are only a few open to couples, we basically are scouting out places we might want to visit at some point in the future with people who are visiting us...or on our own later down the line. Right now, we´re most interested in the sites and the jobs in the Oriente... which is the rainforest of the Amazon basin (I mean, when am I ever going to have a chance to live in the freakin´rainforest again???). We´ll find out for sure next Tuesday. Stay tuned!

Here are some interesting factoids about Ecuador that might be of interest to blog fans:

-- pedestrians do NOT have the right of way in Ecuador. Look out for them buses! They´re everywhere!
--buses are dirt cheap. The bus we from our meeting site into Cayambe costs 16 cents...and they leave every 10 minutes or so (this ain´t no COTA!) and you often get free entertainment in the form of loud music or cute kids.
--Computer keyboards are different here. Not only do they have the groovy ñ key, but also the ever so cool ¿¡ to let you know that the sentence is a question or a shout out right from the start. The most confounding difference, however, is the darn @ symbol...essential for blogging and emailing. Despite the fact it is pictured on the 2 key, it does not in fact work. So where is the @ at, you ask? (p.s. the ? is not in the same place as on English-northamerican keyboards either, hence the misplaced _ ) The secret @ formula: hold the ALT and then 4 and then 6.
--oh, and no I wasn´t joking when we said that the delicacy here is cuy (guinea pig). Our family has a whole pen of them for special occasions.

Well. That´s all for now. I´ll continue to add Ecuadorian anecdotes as they strike me. Gotta jet for now. More later this week. ¡Ciao!