I just got back from spending Christmas weekend in Guayaquil, with some friends of mine. Ivan and Tannya are students at the Alliance Seminary there and invited me to spend Christmas with them, since all of their family is here, in the Amazon region and they like to spend time with me (well, for Ivan it's more of a desire to tease and matchmake for me!) :) I had tons of fun, even though it was a shorter visit than I would have liked. If I had been able to stay another day, we would have gone to the beach and gone swimming (something I'm still not used to, swimming, OUTSIDE, in December)! But I had to be back at school and really had a ton of stuff to do to get ready for January, so it wasn't TOO bad. :) I didn't actually take any pictures, aside from when I went with Tannya and Ivan to the youth group that they're interns in, it was a weekend of watching movies, eating, hanging out and sleeping! (oh and talking with my family on Christmas morning, my nephew's a goof!) The strangest part, aside from not being with my family, oh and not getting my presents yet (it's not the getting of presents that I want, but to know what they are, surprises drive me crazy, if I know they're coming!) was the weather. I'm used to cold and rainy, wishing for snow, aside from one Christmas in the early 90s when it was warm and sunny and I wore a t-shirt outside. Guayaquil's definitely in the southern hemisphere, which means that December is the warm time of year! Although, it makes me laugh, since Ecuador's on the tropics, people don't really know what summer and winter are really about and call any time that it's raining winter. And, since December is also the beginning of the rainy season on the coast, it's called winter, even though it's much hotter and more humid with the rain! It actually wasn't as bad as I was led to believe the weather would be, there were a couple time I felt drenched in sweat from the humidity, but it was actually pretty comfortable, well, while wearing shorts and a tanktop! :)
So for some reason, I wrote this and never posted. Oops! :) Well, here it is now.
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