Sick as a dog

Well, I have arrived in Ecuador, but I have had no access to a computer since last Wednesday. Hence, why I have not been posting at all.

I am in an internet cafe in Cuenca at the moment, and feeling a lot better than I have the last few days, to say the least.

It´s the second day of my two and a half month stay in Ecuador, and I´m sick. I´m talking almost passing out twice from dehydration, throwing up ridiculously all night, and diarrhea. Not cool. That lasted for two days, and it was literally one of the worst experiences ever. We still haven´t figured out what it was that made me so sick, but now I´m paranoid, so I´m very careful with anything that I eat or drink. I also felt like such a loser because I was the first and only one to get sick (go figure), but everyone was very helpful and caring, so that made everything a lot better.

Other than that, I really have no other news. I´m getting used to my host family and my house, and today we are going on a city tour of Cuenca. I´m glad because I have no clue where I am right now. We´re walking in a group back to our houses for lunch. Thankfully, one of the girls I´m going to school with lives right around the corner from me, so we´re going to walk to school together.

I´ve taken a ton of pictures, but haven´t yet uploaded them to my laptop, so as soon as I get that up and running, and the wireless going, I will post some. They are pretty awesome. One of our hotels, actually a hacienda, was outside of a town with a volcano, Tungurahua, and it was spewing ash. That was a sight to see.