To Quito!

It has been 2 night already since I arrived in Quito. First of all, I will write here something about the incredible trip I made, and then a little about the town.

On the 19th of March, at 5am in the morning (local time) I woke up in Amsterdam at my brothers place. Hardly slept, we went together to Schiphol. There I said goodbye to my bro and went on the plane at 9am. I never feel great in an airplane, but this time… I immediately became sick (a little fever), constant feeling of vomiting, and a major headache. After 2 aspirin’s I felt a little better although I needed some sleep, and that I can never have when travelling. So, I enjoyed myself  watching some movies and trying to sleep and eat. After 10 hours we arrived in Atlanta at 2pm local time (-7 hours Amsterdam). After 3 hours waiting and feeling miserable, I got on the plane to Quito with 2 seats for myself. So, a little sleep was welcome. It was planned that we arrived at 10pm local time (-6 hours Amsterdam). However, we tried to land twice but we couldn’t: the clouds where to low and thus we were too heavy.  Therefore, we went to Guayaquil: 40 minutes away of Quito. The whole day the weather was changing in Quito and at the same day, an army plane crashed and 6 people died. So we were lucky to have such responsible people in the plane who choose to go to Guayaquil. However, there were no hotels left, so we had to go to another place, they said first. After 2 hours of getting some fuel, food and drinks another announcement was made: we would try to land again in Quito,but if that wasn´t possible, we would go so Costa Rica or Panama. However, since there were some Ecuadorians and Colombians in the plane, we could only go to Panama. Luckily, at 2:20am local time, we landed in Quito. Of course everybody clapping and being happy.

I was wrecked: after 36 no sleep, sick,noshes, and so on. I was supposed to be picked up at the airport by people from the university of andina simon bolibar (UASB) but since I arrived 5 hours later, I choose to take a taxi. Of course I paid way too much, but I didn´t care much about that at that moment. I arrived in my bedroom which is nice: own bathroom, bed, TV with all kinds of channels, and a desk. After a short, cold shower (what to do? it is still a 3rd world country) I went to bed and woke up once in a while due to noise outside from the road. I had lunch for 2.80 dollars downstairs at 2pm. Then it started to rain really badly, so I went up to my room again to sleep from 5pm till 2 am. Then again from 5am till 9am. So, I have been resting indeed!

It is a nice place where I stay: right in the university where I will do my research-internship, free use of the gym, laundry room, music room, restaurant and so on. However, eating is sometimes difficult as a vegetarian I noticed and everyday eggs is not really good and kinda boring. But okay.

Had some breakfast this morning and went to the city. It is hot right now; 15celsius but very humid. Looks like the Netherlands: you need to take a raincoat, sweater, t shirt and so on when you go out: you never know what´s going to happen.About the height: it is 2800 meters here (9200 feet) and so I feel that indeed after coming from a country below see level! Eating is even hard to do! Imagine!

Now I´m sitting in a coffee toffee bar and writing here, but I seem to be getting hungry, so I should stop writing here!