At Thanksgiving time my friend and former co-worker Charlie asked me to check which way the water rotated in the toilet south of the equator. My observations say (drum roll please) clockwise. Which way does it rotate in your bathroom?
Dogs run wild here in Ecuador, although there are some on leashes, most seem to belong to no one and everyone at the same time. Today I saw a dog resting in the middle of the street. While in Parque La Carolina I saw a dog chasing, snapping, and barking after a four wheeler on which two police officers were
In a city thats 22 miles long, there seems to be common threads from one end to the other and some unique characteristics in each barrio. The neighborhood Im staying in, La Mariscal, is home to La Floresta, so named because of the many flower stores. On our walk to school, the bins are full of flowers and it is
Nearly everyone at the school is cold. Mucho Frio! they exclaim. It seems really nice here to me. The weather never stays the same – except it’s always about 60 degrees. From dawn to dusk theres sunshine, clouds (sometimes low enough to envelope the building) and rain. For the third day in a row an afternoon thunderstorm rolled in. The