Saturday February 28
Today is my Mother’s Birthday! She is 84 years old. My prayers are that she has peaceful and loving life for the time she is still here. She is in very poor health but she can still talk on the phone. She has been staying in a type of nursing home for the past couple of years.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Another Ecuadorian Story
Tuesday February 24
Jayne and I left for Quito about 11am. We went to Papaya Net restaurant for lunch and went on the internet there.
I got an email from Matt saying to come about 5.30pm. This is later than I thought. In his first email he said come in the afternoon but he didn’t say what time. When you sent out an invitation you should put the time and he didn’t. Since I didn’t get to read his second email until today it means that we have a lot of time to kill. So, we stayed on the internet longer. Then we looked around the stores and finally had a small pizza. We don’t think he’ll be offering anything to eat, as he said to come over for wine, that’s why we ate before we go there.
When we arrived Matt was talking to a client in his office so he told us to go inside. At 5.30pm another couple came over. This couple is from Australia and they import souvenirs from Ecuador. Then a black woman came over and then Chad and his girlfriend. A guy from America, named Bill, came over, too. He flew in from Urgarway. He’s looking at property here. However Richard never showed up.
I talked to Bill quite awhile. I was hoping he’d be interested in buy my property but it doesn’t look like he’s interested.
I was glad that I brought cheese with me, as Matt didn’t have any! This is strange; when you invite people over for wine you should have cheese there. He didn’t even say, ‘Sorry we have no cheese,’ so I think that he thinks it’s ok to not have anything to go with the wine. His wife, Amparo, did make some Ecuadorian snack for us awhile later, but she only made enough for each person to have one! He did admit that there was not enough.
We had a nice evening. Jayne and I were the last to go home, which was about 9.45pm.
Wednesday February 25
Gonzalo called early this morning to say if he could come over tomorrow morning. I said he could and I was glad to hear that he’s ok.
I left this morning to pay my electric and phone but when I got to the electric company and saw a line out the door, I didn’t stop there. I then went to the phone company store and saw a line out the door there, too! I didn’t go in there either. I figure I would have to spend an hour in both lines.
Then I took a taxi to Quito. I went to get something to eat first, then I went to a bookstore. I said to myself, ‘there is a book waiting for me.’ sure enough, after looking around for awhile I saw the book, Psycho-Cybernetics! This is a book that I read a long time ago and it’s a classic. I recommend everyone to read it.
I got some books for Jayne, too.
Then I went to the internet café near the Magic Bean. I noticed that the girl sitting next to me had some Russian on her screen. I asked if she is Russian and she said yes. So we got to talking – in Russian of course – and she said she is from Moscow. The guy sitting next to her is either her husband or boyfriend.
We had a nice chat. I then invited them for a cup of coffee to talk more and they agreed. So we went back to the Magic Bean.
I was asked where a mall is as Olga wanted to buy some clothes. I said that I was going to the bank but if they would wait I would take them to the mall (QuiCentro). After I got my money we went to the mall.
They were hungry so we got something to eat at the mall. Then we went to a store where Olga wanted to buy something. Later, I told them I had to go home and we said our goodbyes. We had previously exchanged phone numbers and email address.
It was good talking to them in Russian. Some words I pronounced wrong and other words that they said to me brought it back to mind.
Jayne and I left for Quito about 11am. We went to Papaya Net restaurant for lunch and went on the internet there.
I got an email from Matt saying to come about 5.30pm. This is later than I thought. In his first email he said come in the afternoon but he didn’t say what time. When you sent out an invitation you should put the time and he didn’t. Since I didn’t get to read his second email until today it means that we have a lot of time to kill. So, we stayed on the internet longer. Then we looked around the stores and finally had a small pizza. We don’t think he’ll be offering anything to eat, as he said to come over for wine, that’s why we ate before we go there.
When we arrived Matt was talking to a client in his office so he told us to go inside. At 5.30pm another couple came over. This couple is from Australia and they import souvenirs from Ecuador. Then a black woman came over and then Chad and his girlfriend. A guy from America, named Bill, came over, too. He flew in from Urgarway. He’s looking at property here. However Richard never showed up.
I talked to Bill quite awhile. I was hoping he’d be interested in buy my property but it doesn’t look like he’s interested.
I was glad that I brought cheese with me, as Matt didn’t have any! This is strange; when you invite people over for wine you should have cheese there. He didn’t even say, ‘Sorry we have no cheese,’ so I think that he thinks it’s ok to not have anything to go with the wine. His wife, Amparo, did make some Ecuadorian snack for us awhile later, but she only made enough for each person to have one! He did admit that there was not enough.
We had a nice evening. Jayne and I were the last to go home, which was about 9.45pm.
Wednesday February 25
Gonzalo called early this morning to say if he could come over tomorrow morning. I said he could and I was glad to hear that he’s ok.
I left this morning to pay my electric and phone but when I got to the electric company and saw a line out the door, I didn’t stop there. I then went to the phone company store and saw a line out the door there, too! I didn’t go in there either. I figure I would have to spend an hour in both lines.
Then I took a taxi to Quito. I went to get something to eat first, then I went to a bookstore. I said to myself, ‘there is a book waiting for me.’ sure enough, after looking around for awhile I saw the book, Psycho-Cybernetics! This is a book that I read a long time ago and it’s a classic. I recommend everyone to read it.
I got some books for Jayne, too.
Then I went to the internet café near the Magic Bean. I noticed that the girl sitting next to me had some Russian on her screen. I asked if she is Russian and she said yes. So we got to talking – in Russian of course – and she said she is from Moscow. The guy sitting next to her is either her husband or boyfriend.
We had a nice chat. I then invited them for a cup of coffee to talk more and they agreed. So we went back to the Magic Bean.
I was asked where a mall is as Olga wanted to buy some clothes. I said that I was going to the bank but if they would wait I would take them to the mall (QuiCentro). After I got my money we went to the mall.
They were hungry so we got something to eat at the mall. Then we went to a store where Olga wanted to buy something. Later, I told them I had to go home and we said our goodbyes. We had previously exchanged phone numbers and email address.
It was good talking to them in Russian. Some words I pronounced wrong and other words that they said to me brought it back to mind.
Ecuador is a Noisy Country
Sunday February 22
The Indian War Dance?
It’s now 1.30am and we still hear tom-tom ‘music’ over the loud speak coming from a school nearby! This ‘party’ started about 5pm yesterday. Here it is in the early morning of Sunday and this sound is still going on. What’s with these people?!
I went to bed at my usual time and I had trouble going to sleep. While jayne layed in bed and read. I did fall asleep but I woke up. So I got out of bed and I noticed it was near 1.30am! don’t they have a law that you have to turn off music at a certain time? Or in the very least, where others outside the building can’t hear it? I know in Cyprus it’s midnight. And at the parties I did go to I know the music wasn’t this loud, at least not when Yianni had is hotel and had others play there.
Like I said it’s not even music but some drum beat. There is no singing with it so I can’t imagine someone dancing to it or watching dancing. Then often during this constant and mind-numbing beat the guy shouts something on the microphone.
This must be coming from the grade school that is about half a block away and it is outside. Boy, I wished that it rained, at least they would have had to taken it inside. I’m trying to imagine what the people are doing. First, being there is would be much louder. Then what do they do, stand around and watch some ‘show’. Or do they actually dance to that. If they do I can only image some Indian savages going like you have read about in hold history books. But even then they didn’t do it for hours on end. So far this uncivilized ‘music’ has been going on for 8 ½ hours! Even normal parties don’t go on this long, so how can people stand the noise and the activity for so long. I guess it’s because they are Indian Ecuadorians. I would think the people would be exhausted.
This ‘noise’ we hear playing is not something that you can buy on a CD or heard played on the radio. You can buy Ecuadorian traditional music for example, where you hear some music played on bamboo pipes that they play. Some of this they play Western pop music. But even their own music is not like what Jayne and I heard tonight. However, this must be part of their ‘culture’, which I don’t understand and don’t want to understand.
If any Nordic foreigner was building here and in building in a neighborhood they would be much better off to build where their house would be sound proof and include triple pane glass.
I wonder what other neighbors think when they hear this noise. I guess they don’t complain as they think it’s all normal. Otherwise if they didn’t like it they would complain to the police decades ago and they would have had a city ordinance.
Ecuador is a Noisy Country
I told Jayne about a week ago, ‘You know, when you come to think about it, Ecuador is a noisy country.’ Now most people who have read about travel in Ecuador would think of the beautiful country and the different trips you can see and the hiking that they would never think of the noise, but Ecuador does have a lot of noise – unless you are in the country far from even villages.
In the small town where we live, this is the typical noise you hear:
Dogs barking
Fireworks
Music
Roosters
Speakers on trucks
To go into more detail, every town has their stray dogs and it could be at any time during the day or night that you hear packs of dogs barking.
Kids setting off fireworks – regardless if it’s a holiday or not – and it could be in the early morning of Saturday or Sunday.
Someone decides to play music loud. Sometimes you can hear this starting at 7am on the weekend.
Roosters are kept by a lot of people. Keep in mind this is not the country and farm area. There is a neighbor in the back that has one and another person a half a block away.
During the day on the weekend you hear someone going down the street with a loud speaker hawking their vegetables or something else. Now, during any day you can hear the truck that sells bottled gas. This is a conveyance for us so we don’t have to take it to the store can try to carry a heavy tank bank. But I just mention this as an overall thing of the noise in Ecuador. I know some noise you got to have, but there is a lot that is not needed.
Then you have noise always heard on a busy road such as:
Drivers beeping their horns
Bus workers shouting out the window for rides
The loud buses, which are louder than in other countries
All of this is not necessary and you don’t hear it in other countries.
Well, it’s now 2am and the sound is still going. Is the cut off time 2am? I find out shortly.
I would like to see what the people actually do and see, and if there is any other entertainment when this savage music is going on for hours on end. They must be mind-numbing dumb when they come out of there. I half expect them to be on the war path carrying spears or something – being synced up by the constant drumming the heard.
It sounds like the racket stopped. But not quite, as I hear something fait, so they must have taken the noise inside.
I can’t wait to get back to quit and civilized Cyprus!
Now, I think everything stopped. I just wonder how drunk people are who left. it’s been 9 hours of this crap tom-tom ‘music’ we’ve heard!
Richard is suppose to come by later today. I can’t wait to tell him this ‘Ecuadorian Story’. We often trade such incidents when we talk to each other, and believe me, there’s always something to talk about.
Well, I’m going to bed now and get some sleep. Goodnight!
I went the market early in the morning to buy produce.
Later I called Richard to see if he was coming and he said that he got a slow start. He said he won’t be coming but will try to come Monday or Tuesday. I told him about the loud music we heard all night. That’s when he said that it’s Mardi Gras and Ecuadorians will be celebrating until Tuesday.
So, that is the reason why there was a party. I just hope that there will be no more ‘music’ or loud noise tonight.
Jayne and I were planning to go to the mall to check out mail. I told her the news after she got out of the shower. I said that they’ll probably be a lot of people at the mall and the restaurant and that it would be better to stay home. This is what we did.
The Indian War Dance?
It’s now 1.30am and we still hear tom-tom ‘music’ over the loud speak coming from a school nearby! This ‘party’ started about 5pm yesterday. Here it is in the early morning of Sunday and this sound is still going on. What’s with these people?!
I went to bed at my usual time and I had trouble going to sleep. While jayne layed in bed and read. I did fall asleep but I woke up. So I got out of bed and I noticed it was near 1.30am! don’t they have a law that you have to turn off music at a certain time? Or in the very least, where others outside the building can’t hear it? I know in Cyprus it’s midnight. And at the parties I did go to I know the music wasn’t this loud, at least not when Yianni had is hotel and had others play there.
Like I said it’s not even music but some drum beat. There is no singing with it so I can’t imagine someone dancing to it or watching dancing. Then often during this constant and mind-numbing beat the guy shouts something on the microphone.
This must be coming from the grade school that is about half a block away and it is outside. Boy, I wished that it rained, at least they would have had to taken it inside. I’m trying to imagine what the people are doing. First, being there is would be much louder. Then what do they do, stand around and watch some ‘show’. Or do they actually dance to that. If they do I can only image some Indian savages going like you have read about in hold history books. But even then they didn’t do it for hours on end. So far this uncivilized ‘music’ has been going on for 8 ½ hours! Even normal parties don’t go on this long, so how can people stand the noise and the activity for so long. I guess it’s because they are Indian Ecuadorians. I would think the people would be exhausted.
This ‘noise’ we hear playing is not something that you can buy on a CD or heard played on the radio. You can buy Ecuadorian traditional music for example, where you hear some music played on bamboo pipes that they play. Some of this they play Western pop music. But even their own music is not like what Jayne and I heard tonight. However, this must be part of their ‘culture’, which I don’t understand and don’t want to understand.
If any Nordic foreigner was building here and in building in a neighborhood they would be much better off to build where their house would be sound proof and include triple pane glass.
I wonder what other neighbors think when they hear this noise. I guess they don’t complain as they think it’s all normal. Otherwise if they didn’t like it they would complain to the police decades ago and they would have had a city ordinance.
Ecuador is a Noisy Country
I told Jayne about a week ago, ‘You know, when you come to think about it, Ecuador is a noisy country.’ Now most people who have read about travel in Ecuador would think of the beautiful country and the different trips you can see and the hiking that they would never think of the noise, but Ecuador does have a lot of noise – unless you are in the country far from even villages.
In the small town where we live, this is the typical noise you hear:
Dogs barking
Fireworks
Music
Roosters
Speakers on trucks
To go into more detail, every town has their stray dogs and it could be at any time during the day or night that you hear packs of dogs barking.
Kids setting off fireworks – regardless if it’s a holiday or not – and it could be in the early morning of Saturday or Sunday.
Someone decides to play music loud. Sometimes you can hear this starting at 7am on the weekend.
Roosters are kept by a lot of people. Keep in mind this is not the country and farm area. There is a neighbor in the back that has one and another person a half a block away.
During the day on the weekend you hear someone going down the street with a loud speaker hawking their vegetables or something else. Now, during any day you can hear the truck that sells bottled gas. This is a conveyance for us so we don’t have to take it to the store can try to carry a heavy tank bank. But I just mention this as an overall thing of the noise in Ecuador. I know some noise you got to have, but there is a lot that is not needed.
Then you have noise always heard on a busy road such as:
Drivers beeping their horns
Bus workers shouting out the window for rides
The loud buses, which are louder than in other countries
All of this is not necessary and you don’t hear it in other countries.
Well, it’s now 2am and the sound is still going. Is the cut off time 2am? I find out shortly.
I would like to see what the people actually do and see, and if there is any other entertainment when this savage music is going on for hours on end. They must be mind-numbing dumb when they come out of there. I half expect them to be on the war path carrying spears or something – being synced up by the constant drumming the heard.
It sounds like the racket stopped. But not quite, as I hear something fait, so they must have taken the noise inside.
I can’t wait to get back to quit and civilized Cyprus!
Now, I think everything stopped. I just wonder how drunk people are who left. it’s been 9 hours of this crap tom-tom ‘music’ we’ve heard!
Richard is suppose to come by later today. I can’t wait to tell him this ‘Ecuadorian Story’. We often trade such incidents when we talk to each other, and believe me, there’s always something to talk about.
Well, I’m going to bed now and get some sleep. Goodnight!
I went the market early in the morning to buy produce.
Later I called Richard to see if he was coming and he said that he got a slow start. He said he won’t be coming but will try to come Monday or Tuesday. I told him about the loud music we heard all night. That’s when he said that it’s Mardi Gras and Ecuadorians will be celebrating until Tuesday.
So, that is the reason why there was a party. I just hope that there will be no more ‘music’ or loud noise tonight.
Jayne and I were planning to go to the mall to check out mail. I told her the news after she got out of the shower. I said that they’ll probably be a lot of people at the mall and the restaurant and that it would be better to stay home. This is what we did.
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