today we went all over the city so that i could do all those last minute tourist things that a normal person would have done at the beginning of their trip... the panacillo, mitad del mundo... i am so lame. but it was fun, and we took lots of pictures (to make up for the lost ones) and now that i've been to the center of the world, what else is there to do, really?
yesterday anna decided she needed to go shoe shopping, so we went to el jardin (a mall). on our way out we stopped in marathon sporting goods to buy a liga jersey, and standing there at the checkout counter buying a jersey was espinola, number 23, a defender for liga. now, keeping in mind that fútbol is life down here, and liga just happens to be my team, this was sort of big. i mean, it's gotten to the point where we go to all the games we can, and sit in the crazy section with all the muerte blancas (white death, the name of the "gang" of liga fans). we're the resident gringos. it's fun. they're really impressed with us, because we even know most of the songs they sing. so there we are in marathon, looking at espinola, wondering if we should walk up to him, not even 100% sure that it's him. so what do we do? what any fan would do: stalk him around el jardin until we're certain it's him. once we knew for sure it was him, we went up to him and asked for his autograph. he gave us a funny look, then said "you're not ecuadorians, are you?" and we laughed and said no, but we're huge liga fans, and we even showed him the fat bruise i got from the may 11th game and he was impressed. we told him good luck in argentina next week and said chao.
so that's it. that's my last exciting moment in quito. well, i guess the night isn't over yet, but... you know. tomorrow morning i'm on a plane to dallas at 6:30, and thus ends my life in spanish. que pena. hopefully i can get some sort of job that will require me to speak spanish. i really don't want to lose it. so the next time i post, it'll be from the US of A. yippy.
siempre.....
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