The past few weeks

There was a bit more inbetween the last post and here, but I was really busy so I think I'm going to skip it.

Main Points of the past few weeks:

• Galapagos: still awesome. Still amazing. Seriously, some of the most amazing weeks of my life were to be there.
• Galapagos with everyone else: was weird to have the liberal arts kids around after being with just the ecology geeks for so long, but it was fun. Had good bonding time with the Lolo and the Dahlia. and the Sari too. They're all good ones.
• Ick Week: last week of the program where we were at the uni every day writing lab reports and doing stats and yuckyuckyuck. But I had insanely significant data for my palms so ha! Yo gano.
• Family: My family came to visit me and it was awesome! We went to Otavalo for the weekend, then Tena for a few days, stopped at the hot springs in Papallacta, then back in Quito where we went to Mitad del Mundo together. Tiring being a translator all week, but it was fun to show them around Ecuador.
• Carnival: Ecuador throws water on carnival, and thus it was "dangerous" to walk around on the streets. Me, with my brillance, took my family to Peguche (the falls in Otavalo) the weekend before Carnival. My poor sister. She got soaked, covered in foam, and flour thrown in her hair. Tena, where we were on actual Carnival, was also... exciting. There were kids riding around on the back of pickup trucks with huge tubs of water and just huling buckets at people on the sidewalks. They drove around town toting super soakers and kinda reminded me of terrorists, except like 7 years old.

Perhaps I shall post some pictures when I have stable internet/time. Good fun times for my last week in Ecuador.