Because you were probably wondering...

Como va? September treating you well? I don't have any major events to report, but I thought I would post some random pictures of things around Quito. First of all, here is my sweet bus stop, Jipijapa:




















And I'm sure you wanted to know what Ecuador license plates look like. So here it is:








Pretty dull, I know. But it does the job.

So every day, except maybe Sunday, people are learning to drive. Driving here is a little crazy. They use their horns a lot. I haven't seen a car/truck/bus with automatic transmission yet. There's a driving school very near the IES center, so if you look out the window at the right time, you can see all the student drivers lining up to go for their lesson. I tried to capture it on the camera, but it's a little tricky to see. The first two blue ones in the line and at least the majority of the white cars are with the driving school. I thought it was kind of funny.




















The fruit here is amazing. I've tried lots of fruits I didn't even know existed. There is also lots of wonderful fruit juices. One of my favorite new juices is that of the Tree Tomato (Tomate del arbol). Here is a picture of the fruit (with a Sacajawea dollar coin FOR SCALE!!)












Speaking of those dollar coins...
If you were wondering where they all went since we don't really use them, I have the answer. They are all here in Ecuador. They use them a lot. Kind of weird, but I'm glad they are being put to use.
The name that nobody came up with for the picture from last post is culpeo. It is the Spanish term for an Andean fox. Good eye to all those who saw it though!

Finally, a little preview. On Saturday I went to a futbol game. Ecuador versus Bolivia. It was really fun! And we won! I'm hoping to maybe have some pictures from the game, but for now, I just have a picture of the stadium. Or about 1/3 of the stadium. It's the blue, yellow and red thing. It's within walking distance of my house, which is very convenient. Hope to have more later, but that's it for now. Chao!