Friday, September 01, 2006

my birthday


well, i've been in loja for almost a month and it's pretty much been a vacation. one reason it's been a vacation is because the people in the legal department at the university i'm going to work at are on vacation so i can't start applying for a visa yet. not until monday. hopefully. you never know around here.

last weekend was my birthday and it was really great. first, we went to the house where i'm going to be living soon. i'll be renting a room from another Baha'i who's moving here from the states. the house is ginormous and beautiful. later on we went home and to my surprise everyone had decorated the house and there was a cake and snacks for my birthday. and as is ecuadorian tradition (or so i've been told) i had to take a bite from the cake and then everyone pushed my face into it. as is clear from this picture here.

after that our friend hal took us to a russian ballet on ice that was performing in loja. how surprising. it was beautiful. we got to see swan lake and the nutcracker.

other than that, i've just been hanging out and practicing lots of spanish.

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