Galak

This is Jason impersonating the face dogs make when they poop. He is with Guiness in this photo. Here is Roger, Marco and Jason with Guiness and Winston at the first waterfall up the path from where we live.

Randi with Roger´s birthday cake.

View of Quito

Yumm.... We are eating candy right now called Galak. It is made by Nestle and it is kind of like a Crunch bar but with white chocolate. Delish. We are having a lovely time. On TV in the internet cafe is Full House dubbed in Spanish.

Here is a story: We went to travel a couple of days with Roger, Jordan´s dad. We were in a taxi and we told the taxi driver that it was Roger´s birthday. He asked how old Roger was and he told him. Then Roger said something along the lines of "I have a young face". Then the taxi driver said, "but you have grey hair!" We all laughed awkwardly, as this would be kind of a strange thing to say in the States. I was translating everything and I almost didn´t want to translate it. But then the taxi driver said, "we have a saying, it doesn´t matter what color your hair is, it only matters how your penis works." I, of course, did not yet know the Spanish word for penis and told him that I wasn´t familar with it. He laughed like crazy and asked how that was possible since I am married! We all had a good laugh. What makes it really funny is that the Spanish words for hair and penis are really similar. I´m not sure on the spelling but its something like pelo and palo. so the saying is quite an effective one. That taxi driver was hilarious. He joked the whole time that we were with him and then asked if we believed in Jesus Christ.

Jason might do a facilitation day with one of the local high schools. They came by to go on a hike and we asked them if they wanted him to come and do a day at their school. It will be his first international facilitation. How cool will that be. I get to come and translate. The teacher who we were talking to was also telling lots of jokes. He was telling pretty dirty jokes right in front of all the students and everything. I guess it´s just a cultural difference. They love to joke down here. I usually end up understanding about half of the joke and pretend to laugh. My Spanish is not quite good enough for humor, yet. Although I did manage to tell them a blonde joke in Spanish and everyone cracked up.

Love you all.