South America: Octavalo, Spanish Students, Misc.
Hola,
I am going to use your email rather than the family but you have to print my emails out let everyone read them and give to Mom and Dad to read. Also, if you haven´t please print out my other emails and let Mom and Day read.
We are at an internet cafe writing emails while our laundry is being done next door. Tonight at 8:00 pm we meet with our Espanol teachers para La Selva, take a taxi to the bus station, catch an overnight bus to the city of Coca, have breakfast, take an hour and a half motorized canoe trip to the lodge in La Selva, rest a few minutes and then take an afternoon Español lesson. The next four mornings we have Español lessons and in the afternoon we hike the jungle speaking in Español.
Do you or your sisters take Español classes?
What are you doing this summer: tennis, swimming, baseball, etc?
Let your sisters know that if they write me I will send an email back to them.
We have met a number of other students, all but one younger than us. The average age is early 20´s to early 30´s. We always enjoy our time with them. So far we have met or taken day trips with a Thailand -- male, Holland - male, Sweeden - male, two Switzlerland - one male & one female, a French Canadian - male, an English young lady and a dozen Americans. Each is interesting and fun to talk with. We talk in English and for those whose English is weak we talk in Spanish and English. English is an international language but it isn´t the only language! And we all try Español because we need the practice.
Yesterday was a day trip to the large market in Otavalo and then a short hike along a ridge about a lake in the hole of a valcano. Very pretty and Nancy and I both agreed we would have rather spent the day hiking around the volcano than the market. The elevation of the hiking trail was 10,600 feet and both of us agreed the elevation didn´t seem to bother us on this short hike. Several very pretty flowers and the view across the lake or out across the valley were fanastic. We are both looking forward to La Selva and the time out doors.
The market had so many colors it was over powering. Fruit, blankets, hats, vegetables, grain, thread, hammocks, folk paintings -- just incredible. Since this was the beginning of our second week and we have another 18 weeks, we were not in a buying mood. We did by some cloth for a runner on our dinning room table. Its cost was a dollar per meter.
We met our new professores after class on Friday. They will travel with us to La Selva and spend most our waking hours with us.
Need to sign off, pick up laundry, return to the hotel and drop the clean laundry, and go find some insect spray.
Love,
Tom
South America
I am going to use your email rather than the family but you have to print my emails out let everyone read them and give to Mom and Dad to read. Also, if you haven´t please print out my other emails and let Mom and Day read.
We are at an internet cafe writing emails while our laundry is being done next door. Tonight at 8:00 pm we meet with our Espanol teachers para La Selva, take a taxi to the bus station, catch an overnight bus to the city of Coca, have breakfast, take an hour and a half motorized canoe trip to the lodge in La Selva, rest a few minutes and then take an afternoon Español lesson. The next four mornings we have Español lessons and in the afternoon we hike the jungle speaking in Español.
Do you or your sisters take Español classes?
What are you doing this summer: tennis, swimming, baseball, etc?
Let your sisters know that if they write me I will send an email back to them.
We have met a number of other students, all but one younger than us. The average age is early 20´s to early 30´s. We always enjoy our time with them. So far we have met or taken day trips with a Thailand -- male, Holland - male, Sweeden - male, two Switzlerland - one male & one female, a French Canadian - male, an English young lady and a dozen Americans. Each is interesting and fun to talk with. We talk in English and for those whose English is weak we talk in Spanish and English. English is an international language but it isn´t the only language! And we all try Español because we need the practice.
Yesterday was a day trip to the large market in Otavalo and then a short hike along a ridge about a lake in the hole of a valcano. Very pretty and Nancy and I both agreed we would have rather spent the day hiking around the volcano than the market. The elevation of the hiking trail was 10,600 feet and both of us agreed the elevation didn´t seem to bother us on this short hike. Several very pretty flowers and the view across the lake or out across the valley were fanastic. We are both looking forward to La Selva and the time out doors.
The market had so many colors it was over powering. Fruit, blankets, hats, vegetables, grain, thread, hammocks, folk paintings -- just incredible. Since this was the beginning of our second week and we have another 18 weeks, we were not in a buying mood. We did by some cloth for a runner on our dinning room table. Its cost was a dollar per meter.
We met our new professores after class on Friday. They will travel with us to La Selva and spend most our waking hours with us.
Need to sign off, pick up laundry, return to the hotel and drop the clean laundry, and go find some insect spray.
Love,
Tom
South America
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