back in suecia (sweden, not switzerland!)

now i've made my way all the way back to the northern parts of europe, back home to sweden. it's weird here, everybody speaks swedish, stops their cars when you're trying to cross the street and i look just like everybody else. accually, there's tons of blond people here, and not a single one of us is getting gringoed and charged to pay more. so, a lot of things to aclimate back to. i think i need to go back!

well, i guess that's a later project, my next trip to south america. i just need to bee back here and work for a while first. it's back to deliver mails, starting tomorrow. not really looking forward to it, now when i've seen what jobs exist out there. i mean, compare working as a rafting-guide och surf-teacher to beeing a mail-deliver. definetly need to catch one of those jobs next time!

about the pictures, everybody that wants some of my pictures that i hav'nt sheared on my blogs, just sent me an e-mail (anneliesundbergh@hotmail.com or anneliesundbergh@gmail.com) and i send you a link to where you can get them. there's some good ones from montañita epspecially.

see you sooner or later!

mucho very nice in montañita!

so, i´m sorry for not updating this blog so often, i just have to mouch to do and se for taking me time to write. y chicos, lo siento pero mi español es muy malo ahora para escribir, so todavida este blog es solamente en ingles :) pero, possiblemente en español mas tarde, es bueno para practicar, no?

well, i´ve just come back to quito from another paradise on this earth, Montañita, located on the coastline of ecuador. and i´m telling you, if you can´t have fun there you maight as well voluntair to serve some stupid land in some stupid war, or maybe start looking fore some good brain-doctors, because then you´re in bad trouble! shortly, this is the place to bee, and i definetly need to go back. in fact, i promised myself and some really nice people over there that i would. hasta en un medio año, no mas!

i didn´t do so mouch in my two weeks there, not i comparasion (is that spanish or english or none of them anyway, my brain is confused) to how i tried to do everything that was possible in the other places i´ve visited here. montañita was all about the meetings for me, here i found some of the nicest persons in my whole trip, so i basically just houng out with them and had more or less crazy conversations. it´s funny to try to say something in spanish, because i basically never know exactly what it means, and how people will recieve it because now i only know one level and i guess that i talk like i´m a hundred years old. but that´s not so important right now, i can take thet the guys are laughting at me. but i definetly need to practise a bit more.

so, i ended up spending a lot of time on the beach, where you can find everything; from the most beautiful sunset in the world

to the uglyest fich in the ocean

if you take a walk out to the point, for shure you will see a lot of crazy surfers aswell. like these guys, i can recomend them to persons who would like to learn how to surf. go to balsa house and ask for annelies proffesores de surf.

after the fancy sunsets we usually went to eat (here you dont have to eat rice two times a day, as i most other parts of ecuador, big plus!) and then we headed for a drink or maybe ten.
the partys are good, definetly best in the weekdays and are usually going untill 7-8 am. yeah, i could write on for ever about this place, the people that lives here, the fantastic pacific and all that, but i think it´s better to experience it yourselfes. i´m definetly going back, and then i wont leave until i also can ride the big wawes out on the point, like this guy.one friend of mine told me that this guy is one of the best ones on a board out there right now, i dont know enough about surfing to tell if he is wrong or right, but i can tell that he is one of the nice guys.

el mitad del mundo

so now have i seen one more of the have-to-see-before-i-die spots, the ecuator. it was funny, the physical forces i strange there and we did all the experiments with balancing an egg on a neal and offcourse we had to see if the water acctually curls different on different sides of the ecuator. it did, but we found out later thet it was fake. though, our teacher told us that i really was true, you just have to be in a certain distance to the ecuator. so now i don't know what to belive, as usual.

we also experienced that the gravity just on the line took a lot of our muscles away, we was'nt able to use them. funny feeling, wek as a schoolgirl again.
but it was a nice and calm day, well deserved after two late nights with salsa. it's crazy to try to do it like the locals, i end up completely dead and dizzy in a chear efter a while, but it's so worth it! definetly a great way to party, so hopefully will i learn some more steps soon. it would be funny because since i'm a blond nobody expects me to know any of it :)

so far in Ecuador

now I have been here for almost tree weeks, and I got to say that this country rocks! maybe not the capital town, Quito, but the rest I've seen so far really makes up for that. Quito is for me just a big town up in the montains. it's way to much polusion and fancy-dressed people for me. the mountains is nice though, they're bringing some beauty to this town.
and the old town is nice to. it's built a long time ago, mostly by the spanish invaders, and have in my eyes a lot more soul and spirit than the northern parts where I live at the moment. i'm pretty much in the country just to learn spanish this time, it seemed like a smart thing to do if I wanted to backpack around south america later. at least that's the official exuce for beeing here.

for real, i have wanted to go here ever since i was a kid and watched the documentary-movies from amazonaz. so here I am, and this weekens i took my first muddy steps in the real djungle. i guess that i looked a lot like a whale trying to take a walk on the beach or someting as gracious as that, but finaly i made it down to the river.
the day before had i maid my way to Tena, which now is pretty much my favorite town, atleast in this world. the reason that i dragged myself dom to that especial river was that i was going to do some rafting, wich i've never done before. and ooh my god what a day! i have pretty much grown up on a boat, at least on the summers, so on this river i found myself in my right element.

i have met great people almost everyday so far on my trip, and so eaven on this day. there was our guide Julio, a crazy guy that can make everybody to laugh, we have Flavia whose most imporant belonings is her shoes (at least this day), there's this guy Fabian, going by himself in a kajak, and a group of funny tourist-students from the UK, just to mension some of the caracters.

after a while when the rafts was ready and everybody knew pretty mutch what to do if they fell in to the water or something, we where ready to go!
we was out on that river the whole day, doing a lot of crazy stufft like the cowboy
and had a great time. but offcourse, a day can't pass by completely perfect, theres got to be a catch. and so there was, we made a flip in one of the rough parts of the river (don't ask me what rivers we where on, but i would like to know). we acctually started out really great
but after a while we ran in to a rock, a guess with the wrong speed or angle or something like that. we flipped within a few secounds, and i've got trapped under the raft twice during the rest of that rough part.
but i did'nt mind, i get forced under water quite often when playing under water rygby, and nobody got injured so it was acctually really fun! like taking a ride in a landry-machine or something. afterwards was the adrenalin on top (like it ever gets low on the rivers) and we had so much fun that i think i swallowed half the river beccause i could'nt stop laughing eaven when i was thrown into the water by julio or some of the others.
flavia and fabian seems to have a nice time to, like everybody else on the tour. when the day was over and we stood there on the beach with a cold beer to celebrate the day, we could'nt stop telling eachother that this is how life should be, and imagine to work as a raftingguide!

the day after was by body completely dead, like everybody elses, so wee took a tour out to ísla de monos and said hello to some monkeys. everyday means a new friend, and this day was it lukas turn to make entrance in my life
he was really funny, climbed allover me and flavia, but he did'nt like boys so he just kept on biting them when they tried to take him away from us.

in the afternoon we took a bus back to quito, where i have spent some days now. i have spanishclasses on daytime, where i for example gets the hookerstreets showed for me by my teacher, don ask me of the meaning of that, and the rest of the day am i off learning other things. like the salsa, that is like one of the funniest dances i can think of, and definetly the hardest one. at home we dont have to know any steps to be able to dance, you just move to the rythm. logically that does'nt work with the salsa, you accually need to know some steps or have a proffessional guy to dance with. the first time i tried i had like arms and legs allower the place, except from where my dancepartner expected them to be. but it was funny, and when fabian and i tried something like that yesterday we acctually did'nt kill anybody! offcource was all the local people looking at us, two blondes trying to do their dance, but we got better and better for each time we drank of the killer-mochito that we got from the bartenders.

solong for this time!