sorry for the delay in updates! so let me now conclude Montañita.
so two weekends ago we decided to visit Isla de la Plata aka the poor man´s galapagos. For a smidgen of the price to visit the galapogas you can take a day trip to an island 1hr off shore of Puerto Lopez (about 1hr from Monta´ñita) and you can go see nature such as the blue footed booby (hehe) and frigate birds (crazy birds that have red necks which they balloon out when they´re on the pull.
While there we also saw a turtle/tortoise (zoologists can tell me which is correct!) and we snorkelled with tropical fish. Pretty sure I saw ursula from the little mermaid down there too... Any way that was all fun and games despite my complete lack of preparation for the trip: I had no water, forgot to put suncream on the one area that was exposed, brought no food so had to rely on the snacks provided, and finally while on the boat got so wet with boat spray that i looked like i´d pissed myself. Not such a great way to start the day.
We also got to do whale watching on the way there and back so I saw freakin humpback whales! I always thought that whales were a bit gross but in reality they were actually quite majestic and beautiful, and so tranquil. It was really amazing to have seen them, I have a video and will try and upload at some point!
The only bad thing about the trip was the boat ride of nauseating death on the way there. The guide said before we left shore that if you wanted to sick to please be sick over the side of the boat and not in the toilet. How funny i thought, that´ll never happen. Oh but how wrong I was. About 30mins in the speeding across open water in a glorified engine, every second bumping up and down like i was in a washing machine. I literally have never put so much will power into not being sick. I was green. I wanted to die. I tied my hair up in preparation for chundering and was looking for the best place to lean out of the boat without falling out of the boat. Luckily made it to the island without being sick over the whales, and on the way back i sat at the back of the boat, facing forwards and took a sea sickness tablet off a german. Much better return journey.
On that Sunday we had a mexican dinner with the school and the nomz was so good and I finally washed my clothes :P how nice it is to have clean pants and clothes.
The following week nothing major happened really. Same old same old with spanish classes and surfing, although this week I had individual classes 8am-12. And i thought this was supposed to be a holiday :P on the upside I think my spanish is coming along, i can understand a fair bit and my present tense is quite good. as for my future tense "i´m going to do..." a lot of things as that´s the only way i know how to talk about the future. the past is still a non event for me though, i hope that in quito I´ll get that one down so i can have a bit more a 3 dimensional life.
Oh the most exciting thing for me that happened that week was that I got promoted to a smaller, lighter surfboard! this did result in some days where my own body rode the waves instead of me riding the waves while on the surfboard as it was so lite and the waves so strong often i couldn´´t stand up in time and the wave would just catch me and carry me to shore. A skill i did not know i had :P My favourite phrase from surfing is "un olo mas y despues descanso" (one more one and then i rest) By friday though i was surfing that baby to shore and very excited to organise some sort of surf trip to cornwall :D
On Saturday morning we left montañita for Quito via guayaquil and got the 5.45am bus to Guayaquil. Buses here have so far been reliable and so cheap! for that 3hr journey it was like $5 I think (and that was "expensive" ) Was sad to leave the great people in montañita but hopefully will see them again in the future as most were european :P
muchos besos
xxxxxxx
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