me gusta surfeandar

My timetable here in Montañita is busy busy: Spanish 10am-12, Lunch: 12-1pm, Spanish 1-3pm, Surfing 3-5pm. Phew!

Spanish esta muy bien! Pero ive no time to study so cant remember any verbos or general vocab so my sentances arent improving majorly, though entiendo mas y mas (i understand more and more) :)

The teachers are lovely. They dont speak english so there is much action making and laughs galore. Thuough today we played serpentanes y escelares (sp) and it was hideous: whever we landed on a ladder or a snake we had to answer a question on grammar or general question and I basically regressed to baby spanish and painfully slow answers. God Im so silent in another languge i dont know.

Surfing is awesome! I treat the waves like dogs i.e. dont let them see your fear or else theyll kill you. So i swear at the waves if it knocks me down and try and supress my feelings of "shiiiiiiiitttttttt" and instead focus on not drowning and attempting to surf.

But I have surfed! this is my 4th day today and my arms bloody kill! I basically was paralysed yesterday as couldn{t lift my arms higher than my shoulders due to the muscle pain. In spanish weak is "debil" and mis brasos were definitl something like deblitated yesterday. I had no strength to even push myself up off the board. But today was better. I actually caught a few waves all by my lonesome and rode it until the board sunk :P My knees are paying the price though. Wish I had fat knees to protect me from the board. The instructor Jorge had nicknamed me the girl with the red knees. Wow im cool.

The people in the cabañas are lovely. From all over the world but randomly a lot of German, Swiss and Swedish people. Went with Hayley, mi amiga neuva yesterday to sit on the beach and watch the sun set over the sea. A trio of montañitans came to play us some music while we waited for the sun to dip below the horizon. Cool I thought, just how i pictured this town and my travels. A couple of acoustics later and the cheeky argentianians asked for a contribution to the musical cause! bloody bastards. nothing in life is free apparantly :P

We went to karoke on tuesday night at caña grill. So much fun though the singing was more shouting and pretty sure we hit frequencies that would have broken glass. Afterwards the bar turned into a club, i rolled up my top belly dancer style, took off my flipflops and flailed around all night while fire poi artists took up stage on the sand floor. Swear fire, crowd and drunk people was not the best idea ever ...

Twas good fun but like the 78yr old woman I am all i really wanted to do was curl up with a book and some hot coco :P Partying is fun and all that but in the end its just same old same old. I want to be out there discovering ecuador! Glad only in montñita for 2 weeks, it has taken advantage of its tourist draw so not pure ecuadorian culture. Though its still a millon miles apart from home.

love to yoy all and speak soon. going to go celebrate my 1st at hola ola, ladies night!

xxxxx