Rain Rain GO AWAY

so I ran to the gate at our street and had to wait there untill someone with a key came home. luckly this only took 10 or 15 min but by the time I got home I was drentched. I chainged and by the time I got down stairs Tim it seemed no longer wanted to go. We spent the rest of the day doing little and most of what we did was done wrapped in blankets and sleeping bags. non of the houses here have heat so when it is cool you just have to wrap up. the fact that we missed Mitad del Mundo was not such a bad thing because it turned out that that was the school trip today.
At the middle of the world there is a small museum of the native peoples along with some science-ish sot of things. it was beautiful there today the sun shining in full force, and I ended up with an umbrella to use as a parisol.
The weather in Quito on the other hand has been terible it has been cool with rain off and on for the past week and the whole city seems to be complaining. It has also made washing our clothing something of a trick too, because we wash our clothing in the back patio and hang it out to line dry in the sun. With this tempermental weather it has become quite the chalange to have clothing which is both dry and clean.
this coming weekend I am going to a foot ball game with Tim Eve and a few other people from the school I am SUPER excited which is a little odd considering I don´t really like soccer that much. anyway I´l try my best to keep writing
thinking of you all
Mary

Colors

Today the shool I am going to took a fild trip to a market town we saw llamas and pigs lambs and cows in the animal market. we saw fresh fish and fruit most of which i had never seen as well as tremendous piles of vegitables. we also went textile maket and Oh my was it lovely. I must say though among all the colors of the fruit and pailntings and cloth for sail it was the people which made the greatest impressin in all their colored slendor. I think they are all soo beautiful.

New Apartment

We have been in Quito for a week now and we have great Apartment. It has Three bedrooms 2.5 baths a large kitchen a living room a palio and a Great view. it is also brand new the sink for instance still had the tag in it. The apartment came with two beds, a bench, towells in the bathrooms, a TV and DVD player and everything you could want for a kitchen. not to mention the fact that our landlady comes by almost every day to make sure we are happy and to bring us more things. Eve has been sick nearly the whole time we have been here, she compleatly lost her voice for two days and today she has a bit of a fever. yesterday we went to climb Pachincha the mountain which borders the citys west side. it was quite eye opning to climb a mountain no bigger then O´mally and to struggle with every step not because you are tiered but because you can´t breath. It was a good thing to do though and I look forward to climing more.
I am not sure how I am going to get pictures up or if I am going to be able to but hopefully I will, and soon.

!Hola!

hi every one
okay so we spent 3 days in Lima with Joel from couch surfing and with Simone (another surfer) it was great though I got quite sunburnt on the first day there and am still healing. I has Pisco sour for my birthday party, it was great. we then took the bus to Quito this took a little over three days and may I say how glad I am the bus rides are over. I am now taking Spanish lessons in an atempt to learn the language so that I can talk to people and know what people are saying around me. Quito is very it is clean and calm and cool and has a similar feel to a european city or Boston. Everything is so colorful I just love it.

I will edit later to add pictures