Welcome to Quito!
We made it. William, Angela, Katie, Anna, Shawanda, Lauren, and Allison were happy and excited to arrive. The flights were enjoyable and easy. On our flight from Atlanta to Quito we shared the airplane with 4 other university programs coming to Ecuador for different international programs; one for business, another for language immersion, and one for biology in the Amazon jungle and Galapagos. The one interesting thing at the airport was the incredible use of surgical masks by the airline and immigration workers. This truly is a response to the H1N1 virus. Thankfully no one coughed or broke out in a cold sweat.
We shared a bus from the airport to the bed and breakfast, Casa Foch. The professors had their own room while the girls all shared a room. The shower had hot water, but I am waiting until we truly get the Quito experience of luke warm, dribbling water.
Today we will have an orientation by the group at Andean Study. We should learn about what to do and not to do with families in the city, etc. We will then travel to Academia Cotopaxi and get accustomed to the public K-7 school, Gabriel Garcia Marques, and the International K-12 school, Academia Cotopaxi. We will then return to Andean Study to relax and walk around a newly, cleaned-up section of town called Mariscal. Our families will pick us up this evening.
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