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ECUADOR


*For everything you have missed, you have gained something else*
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Map above - i lived in Quito
Photos below - 1.Quito old town, 2. Mt Cotopaxi

I guess i am really lucky in being able to say i was given the oppurtunity to live a year in a foreign country, making new friends, experiencing new things, and overall, discovering a new me! That country was of course Ecuador and the program was AFS exchange. Now, so many people have asked me 'Why Ecuador?' and although NOW, i wouldn't have gone anywhere else, originally it wasn't my first ( or second or third.. ) choice of country. In fact - i am ashamed to say that geography failed me and that i had never heard of it! But now i really couldn't imagine having gone anywhere else. I did fear spending this year away in the begining, missing a year of my life and already made friends, but living in Ecuador was the best year of my life. I guess mostly because of all the special people that touched and changed my life in many ways. Spending a year away in a different country, culture and emerged in a different language, is really an experience i wish everybody could have, Ecuador was definately the best year of MY life!
*Evolution is the natural process of becoming greater than you are, mentally and spiritually, simply by living*
(Shawn Stockman)