49 stairs

Well, moved into the new apartment last night. No one was expecting that we would actually move this weekend because on Saturday, we phoned Michelle and she said it was unlikely that we were moving. Then Sunday, Cassie, my Canadian roommate called Michelle´s husband Diego and he said "Why can´t you move today? I´ll be over to get you guys and your things in a half hour." A half hour to pack up our whole house? Talk about  a whirlwind. Thankfully it was more like an hour. Then we drove one load of stuff to the new place. Annabel and I were dropped off with those things to start hauling them up 49 stairs to our apartment (yes, we counted the stairs). Once all the stuff was there, Annabel and I had taken about eight trips up the apartment I´d say. Walking up to the apartment is definitely good exercise. I haven´t really unpacked anything yet because my wardrobe and drawers are pretty dusty and I don´t have any hangers.... and no time to go out and buy stuff today so it´ll have to wait until tomorrow. The apartment, as a whole, it probably not as spectacular as I made it sound, but for Ecuadorian standards in terms of what I´ve seen here, it´s really nice. I will post some pictures as soon as I get a chance. The best part about the place is definitely the view from the roof. You can see all the mountains surrounding the valley and all the monuments in the city. It´s pretty beautiful. And even though I did kind of miss sleeping on the floor of Annabel´s room last night, haha, it was really great to wake up in a bed in my own room. A maintance man who works for Diego fixed my bathroom plumbing this morning too which is great because last night when I turned the faucet on to test it, the water went straight to the floor rather than through pipes because the pipe was literally severed in half. All is good now.

Anyway, here´s to another week of teaching. I am glad because two of my classes are being divided in half today (hopefully) which means it will be a lot easier on me. My kids class has a test tomorrow in which they have to fill in missing letters of the alphabet, unscramble sentences like "look at the board" and "sit down" and figure out what to fill in in the question How do __ spell ____ name?". I hope they all pass.... yikes. I know that some of them haven´t been very focused on English during class, rather walking around getting different colored pencils from other students and coloring in their book.

I saw five of my students around town yesterday while Annabel and I were walking to and from the Central Market that closed literally 5 minutes before we arrived (ugh...) and they were all ready excited to see me...hanging out of cars yelling ¨hi teacher!¨and whatnot. it was pretty cute.

Have a great day!