Follow up

Saturday, January 29, 2011:

Today was more of a bum day. I don't remember much, but I do remember that I bought 6 more movies for $10. Great deal! I found out today that the car that we were going in to Mindo tomorrow was in an accident, so we had had to rent a bus. José took care of all that. The bad thing though is that we now have to pay about $10 a piece to rent this big mini-bus. I don't mind, but apparently some of the other people who were previously interested in going cared because 3-4 of them dropped out. C'mon, it's $10 and you're in Ecuador. I can understand that after being in a cheap country for a while, you start to form a similar mentality, but personally, I still believe that we should take advantage of the opportunity and that experiences such as these are an INCREDIBLE opportunity. I'm REALLY excited for tomorrow, especially since we're going with a group of people in which the Ecuadorians outnumber the gringos. Also,  this day was the one that I started to buy my own stash of food so that I wasn't constantly raiding the fridge here and coming out empty handed. This solved two problems: 1. My family doesn't notice how much I eat and 2. I can satisfy my cravings.

Ciao,
Michael