Some wires, a lizard and a cockroach

For Kelsey's last week here we went to the beach. It was just her sister, Rebbecca, Kelsey, joined later by our frined Lukas and myself. Fearing for our lives, our "house dad" called his uncle to make sure we got good quality lodgings and were taken care of, as we were to arrive early in the morning. Well we made it safely and then picked up by the uncle, after calling a few times (I bet he was sleeping until we called). Then we got to the most wonderful hostel I've ever stayed in! It was amazing starting with the name "The alpha and omega" and only got better from there. The night lady, which was the day lady too, wouldn't come to the door so we rang for about 10 to 15 mins. Then she proceed to take us to the room which is hands down the dirtiest place I've ever stayed in and I'm comparing that to camping in a tent. It was a pretty muggy day even though it was only 5:30 a.m. and the room was with out air conditioning, luckily I spotted a fan. The fan probably hadn't worked in 4 years, and good thing it didn't because it had about that many years worth of dust and cob-webs on it! I tried it none less, against Kelsey and Rebecca warnings. So the first real night of sleep I was awoken by a loud "whisper" of "Kelsey, Kelsey!" and then a "I don't want to freak you out, but...". So I tore out my ear plugs and sat up! I asked what was going on and Rebecca was trying to inform us that there was a huge bug coming out of the wall. But upon further inspection it was just a bunch of wires. Why she was awake at 2 a.m. looking for bugs I'll never know. The next night was even more interesting. Before going to bed Rebecca spotted a huge gecko on the wall near her bed. We tried to convince her that'd be fine and it wouldn't crawl on her but she wouldn't budge. So I did the only that a person would do in this situation, I threw a lemon at it. Now why did I have a lemon you ask? Good question, you see earlier that night we had been dancing and after fighting off latin salsa kings from inappropriate dance moves, we moved to the sand to just dance by our selves. Thinking to my self "I really shouldn't dance in the sand, there's probably glass" I ignored my good judgment and proceeded to take off my shoes and dance. Well not one minuet later I found my prediction to have come true. Now bleeding from the toe and feeling like a heal, I limped to the bench to wash and inspect the wound. And of course the guys from the bar ran over to help brining me napkins and a few lemons, because why wouldn't I pour fresh lemon juice on my open cut!? Ok back to the hostel. Well it wasn't my best shot, but I was literally an inch from that lizard thingy and couldn't see why it wouldn't run like any normal lizard would! So I took my other lemon and this time pegged it right in the head! Haha! So it moved about 5 inches this time, in between the window panes. Well I guess she was ok with how much we'd been able to move it so we went to bed. Then I was awoken again by a "Kelsey, Kelsey," I then heard "can you come down here so I can kill it, I need moral support." followed by "No, but could you shut the window, so more of those don't get in? Thanks." rolling over I asked what was going on and there was Rebecca sitting up in her bed just have a staring contest with a huge cockroach! So I've heard stories about these things that they don't die very easily, so I found the heaviest thing I could an attempted to kill the darn thing. Well it ran and I screamed like a girl but in the in I was the victor. I am not going to lie I pretty much felt like a warrior after that night.
The other day I was supposed to teach English early in the morning. I was sick the night before with a cold but thought to myself "it's only for an hour, I'll tough it out and then be done." Why aren't things ever that simple? So I get to the meeting spot, I bit late to meet my companion but still on time for class. Well normally if you were in the US we'd just have left to the class on time, but being in Ecuador we had coffee for a half and hour. Okay, that's cool, just an hour and a half and I'll be home. Right? Wrong. So we get to the class 30 mins late, and no one is there! There was a prayer meeting the night before until 3 a.m. so then he wasn't even sure any one was coming. About 15 minuets later a few start to show up. Alright an hour and 45 minuets. Then they finally try to open the door (which is a roll top store front), and continue to try and do so for an hour!!! Then I just couldn't take it any more. I said look guys I'm sick and I really just don't want to wait here any more. So I'm going to wait a few more minuets and then go. I passed out all the assignments and just as I'm about to leave they pull out a huge saw and say "no, no just wait"... ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?! Now maybe I'm not being culturally sensitive but WHAT THE HECK?!
So I need to buy pants. But it's expensive here and want to know something really depressing? I'm the biggest size they sell in the normal stores! It's not that I've gained that much weight, it's just that the sizes run way smaller 9 = 14 in women's. And the last pair of fat pants I bought doesn't even fit me! Geez.
I'm really loving my new job working in the north of Quito, I don't have to teach and it's so amazing! I'm not really looking forward to teaching but hopefully I'll be able to handle it a bit better this year. If there is a school. If you haven't gotten my prayer update email... you might want to get on that I explained more in detail about what's going on with the school. I'm not working at the girls home like I would have liked to but God knows what's going on and so I'm just going to wait it out. I'm still holding on to my dreams of some day working with girls coming out of sex trafficking and prostitution or just any kind of slavery, but am willing to work with the job that I've been given... even it isn't always fun or my ideal situation.