NO porque yo amo a dios

my whole family is eating dinner at the dinner table in the kitchen. the tv is on in the background while we discuss why my 14 year old sister should not get her belly button pierced. my dad says no, mainly because that will impede the current of an energy flow/chakra of some sort. then, barely audible, "GOL" comes from the bedroom with the tv. my brother, sister and father run, really, run in the middle of dinner to the tv to see who scored. classic toledo family behavior.

i have 4 more weeks of classes before i go on 3 weeks of adventures and then another 4 weeks of my DISP project.

it started raining as soon as i got home today and it hasn't stopped.

today we learned a new song in my quichua class but i don't like it as much as the old one.

it seems to me that i'm going to wake up one morning soon and this love affair with quito will be ending. i absolutely love this city. i haven't had any spiritual or cultural or personal revelations of any grand proportions, but i still feel my brain and my heart (but not my lungs, the air is ugh) expanding and it makes me very happy.

i'm reading the constitution and understand it fairly easily.

lluvia lluvia, vete y
regresate otro día

this is interesting to me, every morning when i wake up my mom asks me "¿como amaneciste?" which i had never heard before instead of what i guess is its equivalent, "¿como dormiste?"

a handful of people are turning 21 while in ecuador, which has absolutely no special meaning in this country.

my here mom used to be a radio dj person with her own show.

whenever a popular song comes on the radio the whole family starts singing it aloud and fearlessly even if they don't have the most complimentary voice. this makes me smile.

this weekend there is an even called quitofest going on in a park. free live music is this weekends occasion!