My New Take on Fun

Just so you all know, I have been here seven weeks and it has been a long time since I blogged, so I figured its time. (What a random sentance). So every six weeks the groups rotate here, so last week we got a new group of girls and they have really livened things up around here. One girl in particular, named Stephanie, is probably the funniest girl I have ever met. For example, last night she decided that we were going to play card games. That sounded pretty good to all of us so we all readied ourselves in a circle for some intense playing. Aaaaaannnnd....she busted out ¨Go Fish¨ and ¨Old Maid¨. For serious, we spent hours playing these games that I have not played since I was a youngster. Great games, really. If you are bored, I recommend it.

Tonight´s game of choice was jumprope. Right in the middle of our bedroom floor (they don´t believe in carpet here) we had a jump-a-thon. Double Dutch, remember that? Super fun.

The best of all though, is that Ecuador has a sweet tradition that is called ¨Carnival¨ that lasts the entire month of February. What happens is random strangers dump water on other random strangers in the street and call it good. So we have seen a little of this action going on, but we have never as yet participated. So tonight my friend Danika had a brilliant idea that we should get the girls that we live with as they came home from a later shift. We live in the perfect house to do this, so we gathered water balloons, buckets, and such to chuck on them as they arrived home. Let me just describe this to you...we live in a hotel that is like multi leveled...well anyway, there is a roof that overlooks the road. In order to get into the house, we have to buzz and someone has to let us in. So as the girls buzzed, no one let them in, and we threw the bucket of water on them and then continued with water balloons. Soon it turned into a full on water fight with the entire Chicaiza family involved (the family we live with), our driver, some random passerbys...ect. I´m just not so sure the owner of the hotel or the people in there really appreciated us running across the roof a million times and using their hose that was up there to drench whoever was in sight. It was ridiculously fun though, and thats what counts, right?