Pavo y Calabeza

(Turkey and Pumpkin)

I am waking up in a little over five hours to go to the airport, and I haven't packed, but I have to update you on Thanksgiving before I go away for the weekend!

It was really, really nice. Five friends and I had dinner at our friend Rachel's (BEAUTIFUL) house. Ali made mac n cheese and mashed potatoes, I brought extensive salad-making ingredients (lettuce, spinach, tomato, onion, cucumber, bleu and gouda cheese, corn, olives, etc), Stephen made cookies and pumpkin pie, Santi and Kalysta did the turkey, and Rachel provided random things and, well, a house and kitchen. We cooked everything there and ate with her host mom and sister after going around and saying what we were thankful for. I also had a $4 bottle of wine.... nice. Then her host brother, THE CUTEST 8-YEAR-OLD, came and I asked him if he wanted to try the pumpkin pie and at first he said no then he ate it up and loved it. He kept trying to eat the whipped cream and we would take it away from him and chase him around the kitchen. It was so much fun.

This week has not been so eventful, class and such as usual. Tomorrow 11 people from the university here are going to the rainforest until Monday evening, which will be amazing. We take a plane, a boat, a bus, and a boat... it is very deep in the jungle, nothing is there except animals and plants and nature. I am so excited. really need to go pack now, I am so afraid I will forget something. I can't believe I'm leaving so soon... I have so much to look forward to, both during December and next semester, but I am just starting to really feel comfortable here- in Ecuador, with Spanish, with my friends, and I am leaving in fewer days than I'd like to acknowledge. (But I miss you mom and dad!) My cell phone just ran out of minutes when I called them :(

But some good news- I was elected Vice-President of Theta next semester, which I am so excited about! I miss the organization and people so much, it will be amazing to go back.

I love you all!

*Another note- I am sorry I haven't been uploading pictures- my internet is sporadic en casa, but when I try to something is wrong with the Java so it just shuts down... it is so lame!! I am trying to work on it! I even brought my camera to the internet lab the other day but it wouldn't copy the pictures for some reason.... any ideas?