Today was my first day of classes, though I only have two. The first starts at 9 and is about mountain ecology, which will switch into coastal and tropical ecology in turn. The teacher is from Greensboro, North Carolina and interestingly enough, also studied at UNC-W, becoming a specialist in ichthyology and majoring in marine biology.
We had about a 3 hour lunch break, but couldn't really go back to our houses because the bus takes about 45 minutes to get from Quito to the university. Soo we ate lunch, got some ice cream, sat around and got sunburnt. The sun is very intense here because there is much less atmosphere shielding us from the radiation. The next class was a Spanish class, which lasted for 2 hours! The teacher is Cuban, and very hard to understand.
Yesterday I went to a park close by and got a break from the cityness. There are beautiful plants there, and a botanical garden complete with a greenhouse with tons of different orchids, ferns, mosses, bromeliads and even a waterfall in it. Later that night we went as a group to watch Batman, which had Spanish sub-titles.
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