Día 2

My day started out much earlier than I would prefer today but I did get to the university on time, actually early, today. First, we learned a bit about the history of Ecuadorian politics, always an interesting topic. (How many other countries have had a president that produced a CD while in office called El Loco que Ama, The Crazy Man Who Loves?) Then we had talks about safety and health which I would say were equally useless. Pablo, the person who did the safety speech, offered us all the opportunity to go to the Galapagos with his BCA group. He said it would be a good budget trip. I wanted to ask him what happened on his last “budget” trip. (For those who don’t know, one of the boats sank in between two islands. It was a miracle that everyone survived. They lost everything they had with them. The reason: the boat was really old, in poor condition and over booked.) I supposed that the odds are against another boat sinking though. Then the other students registered for classes. I had already done that. I found out I know (more or less) another person. There is a guy here from one of my Spanish classes last fall. It was fun getting to know the other Madison students. I showed them La Luna, a restaurant that serves crepes, for lunch. I went home for lunch because I told my family I would be there. I didn’t do much this afternoon, just napped for a long time, worked on my Galapagos paper and wrote this. I hope supper is soon. I’m hungry!

By the way, for those of you wondering, it has been freezing cold here, especially at night. Good thing my bed has five blankets on it. I've been wearing my sweater almost all day today and now I have super thick and warm socks on too. Tomorrow is suppose to be better. I hope my family is right!