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Quito from the TeleferiQo tram.


It's Friday morning. I've decided to make a good and bad list/miss and won't miss list, I guess. It's a good summary for the semester.



About Ecuador
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-Cheap travel (busing costs no more than $12 (and that's for a 12 hour ride).
-abillity to go to the beach, jungle, volcanoes, etc for the weekend.
-Popularity of Nutella
-Manjar de leche
-popularity of ice cream
-The weather
-Spanish
-Hot herbal tea
-Panaderias! Cheap, fresh bread
-Random shops, like the one across the street from me, to get cheap water, yogurt, habitas.
-Fruits not grown or sold elsewhere-Guanâbana, Cherimoya, Maracuya
-Freshness of the fruits and vegetables sold here
-Tangos (made by Nestle!)
-del Valle peach juice (sold by Coca~Cola!)
-Dasani flavored water (Again, Coca~Cloa. I'm writing them!)
-Dried fruit
-Yogurt
-Ecovia (bus)
-Friends
-The Food
-Sushi
-Prices (!)
-Habitas (fried Lima beans with salt)
-Support of National Products
-Fausto Miño
-Daddy Yanky



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-instant coffee
-Car alarms
-crime
-Spanish (hehe)
-Lack of brewed cold tea-agian with the instant
-Meat & Soup
-Meat & Soup
-Meat & Soup
-Ecovia (bus)
-Snotty rich kids
-Very small middle class.
-The Food
-SOUP...
-No Tresseme hair products
-Make-up costs
-Prices of Imports (because of Nat'l support)




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Things that I've missed from The States:
-Safety
-My bike
-PEACH COBBLER
-Recycling
-Norman CART (bus)
-Sirius Marcus Black Grotheer
-Not that it's necessary to mention, but my family and friends.
-Water from the tap
-The Smell
-My Kitchen
-Mexican food
-A good salad
-Pizza Shuttle
-Cell phone (mine here is a Go Phone and I'm on the ghetto company.)
-My Tea Kettle
-Kool-Aid
-Hummus
-My neighborhood
-Cleaning including: laundry, dishes, taking out the trash, laundry, laundry
-A walk around Boomer
-Cold Tea/Sweet Tea

Of course, this is only a general list of things that stick out the most. Aunt Patti, Kenny, and I have a Mexican food date pretty soon after I get home. Today is May 1st, or May Day, or Lei Day (Hawaii), and on May 16th, I'll be in the air. My flight arrives into OKC at 3:52pm, that is without delays. I'm really looking forward to coming home. There are things that I'll miss from Ecuador, but that is alright. I may end up in Ecuador again. I hope to at least visit it.