Food day

Finally I’m bringing you up to speed. I woke up and strapped on the bionic leg. By the way, it’s impossible to bend my knee when I’m wearing it, making sitting in desks (and anywhere else) pretty awkward. Anyway, Z still felt bad but she still made me a raspberry batida and rushed me out of the house so I’d be on time, walking slowly with my leg. Lots of stairs, but I’m adapting… I like to think I have a knack for this sort of thing, kind of like after I got that stress fracture and went to the Halloween dance in a huge boot. I got to school and had my last class with AM, reading poetry and talking up my project. Good stuff. I checked email and printed my 10-page research proposal, done. I was hungry and had an extra meal card so I bought drinkable peach yogurt, a carrot muffin, and a chocolate chocolate cookie, working on a diary entry for AM. We had review in Survey, which was actually pretty fun because we get off topic so much. I blogged for an hour then met Kevin to meet a buddy Sebastian for lunch; he didn’t show so we went with Jael and Stefi instead. I ordered a burrito crepe and Sebastian did show up; we all sat together and it was really cool. Sebastian was an exchange student in Georgetown for a semester (he loved it) so it was really cool to talk to them. Somehow Sebastian got this crazy idea to go to this church that is supposedly the oldest in Quito. I didn’t really have any homework, and Stefi was going, so Kevin and I did, too. We walked to his car and he drove around for a little bit. We passed by the church, which was closed, then Sebastian insisted on buying me some sort of traditional empanada that was super fried but also really good. Kevin wanted to pass by the Pilsener factory, the biggest onle in the country, and Sebastian tried to get us in but it didn’t work out. He’s a little intense and super chivalrous, not wanting me to walk anywhere thanks to the bionic leg. He took us back to school, I looked for Germán to make up for the class I missed while I was at the doctor’s, then went to sit outside an empanada restaurant with Andrew and Kevin; Melanie joined us later. This random guy, a student, asked if he could join us because he thought we were chévere. We sat and talked with him for a while; he lived in the US when he was little and studies at USFQ now. It’s cool that people are so friendly here. The bus came so we had to leave, then it dropped us off in a weird spot. Maddy, Audrey, Proshanti, and Jacob wanted gelato, so I went with them (chocolate). I ate a lot today. Z was sleeping when I came back. I did some writing, reluctantly ate dinner (potato/oatmeal soup, oatmeal drink, rice, vegetables, chicken, fried plantain) and took my shower quickly because the water is still not always working. Then I blogged for a long time. For you, of course! Tomorrow is my last day, and all I really have is a final exam in survey. 9 credits in four weeks, done.