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!
