so yesterday i went to the south of quito. i know this doesn't mean much to y'all, but let me put it this way: it took a good 45 minutes to get there by cab, and when i got out at the hospital i thought i was in a completely different world. a much poorer world. this is the part of quito my resident director would tell me to never go to. eleanor, my buddy, was helping a group of canadian doctors who are down here doing hip-replacements and club-foot surgeries. they spoke very little spanish, she was translating. she told me to come down to check it out, see what she's been doing, etc. it was a really humbling experience.

afterwards, eleanor and i decided to get ice cream. went to crepes & waffles, got massive bowls of good stuff, followed by actual good coffee with bailey's. yummy. chatted it up for awhile, shot the shit, etc.

left there and decided to go to our respective homes to prep for the evening. we were going to go salsa dancing. walking towards the ecovia (public transport) i dropped a .50 coin. didn't even notice until a guy tapped me on the shoulder and handed it to me. so i have this warm fuzzy feeling, right? like maybe this place isn't so bad after all.

get onto the ecovia, it's crowded. this guy, who i thought was headed towards the door to get off (i was standing next to the door) stands inbetween eleanor and i. we thought it was weird, but... well, whatever. i tried to move out of his way so he could get to the door, but he didn't want to.

got off about two stops later. i moved to be next to eleanor to chat, and five seconds later i realized the fucker had stolen my wallet from my backpack. arg!!!! i was so mad... i even had my bag in front of me with my hand on it. not cool! so i had to cancel credit and debit card, and now i have to replace my citizenship card.

worse part is, it was my favorite red, ninewest wallet that matches my favorite, red ninewest purse. so not cool!!!

the warm fuzzies are gone.

bleh.


siempre.....

warm fuzzies no more

curlingiron

Friday 11 March 2005 at 4:07 pm

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