Saturday, June 07, 2008

  • Thanks to the power of Facebook

    Technology is scary these days. People that you haven´t seen in years or hardly even know can keep up with you, thanks to the power of Facebook. With that being said, it´s one´s own prerogative to update/post whatever they want. But my cousin was telling me how he changed his status to ¨not single¨, and was flooded with dozen of nosy messages asking him what´s up! Facebook is a gossip-mongers heaven.

    But the upside to modern technology is great. So I´m changing my status to something like ... Emily is wandering around Peru. And a friend that I haven´t seen since high school see´s this and writes me, ¨hey! Im in Ecuador working on a farm. Wanna come over?¨

    She didn´t think I would actually haul ass to Ecuador. Oh how little did she know me!



    56 hour busrides are not fun and my body was beat after the Inca madness. I fell off a bike, got my leg rolled over by another, got massively attacked by mosquitoes, fell off my wonky ankle and was basically covered in bruises. When I was living in Guatemala, I housed with this cool German dude who spoke limited English. He was funny. He would call me ´zee girl wif zee sick feet´.



    I´d like to say pictures are an exaggeration? But that would be a lie. People walking down the streets would see my feet and gasp in horror. I was scratching my feet at a park and an old Peruviana lady saw my feet and demanded that I be taken to the ER. So she actually dragged me to the emergency. There were ppl in severe conditions around me, yet everybody still took the time to marvel at my legs. Well, I guess my feet are pretty gross!

    Suffice to say, time off in an organic farm was perfect. These ppl are HARDCORE when it comes to sustainable living. They produce zero garbage and recycle EVERYTHING, even their own poop! It´s pretty cool how they collect their poop, mix it with sawdust and it eventually turns to dirt. The sole purpose of animals is for their manure. I´ve gotten to see how raising cattle for food is sort´ve tedious when using their poop to grow food is so much more productive. Don´t you think?



    Sesame seeds. Did you know it grows in a pea shaped pod?



    Loofah! It looks like a cucumber.

    And when we´re not hanging out on a farm.

    Canoa, Ecuador






    Popayan, Colombia


    Selling snail juice on the sidewalk! apparently it reduces cellulite and helps skin.




    I´m sitting on the fence with Venezuela. I think I´m more excited about going back to SF!

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