Gratitude

There's always lots to rattle on about, but I am also a big fan of lists.  So here's one (because I don't think I could find Day Planners and Thought Catchers round these parts, so I make my own).

Thanks to

• Dan for helping set me up electronically with through instructions
• Jaegs for the tablet loaner, has come in handy 
• The nice woman on the bus who saw me board with a big backpack and my hand full of bags.  She put my groceries by her feet and held my waterbottle for the entire ride.  Que cute.  
• All the people who have given me directions and suggestions: Alejandro on the plane from Florida, Alex in Quito...  These people have hooked me up with buses and pointed me in the right direction so many times, and I have been able to know my next step without having to pull a map out in public.  Gracias.  
• Zoila (the lady who lives downstair) who lent me her thermometer
• The lady who grills cheesy plantains, eres hermosa.  
• Sarah- fellow volunteer for making all her delicious desserts
• Henley- fellow volunteer for pointing out local sights, carrying the gas tanks up the stairs and being so easy to get along with 

I'm grateful for (in no particular order...) 

Free Zumba-esque classes, plantains (in any shape, form), free rides back to town, a seat on the bus, finding a connection bus instead of walking, having an umbrella, raincoat, toilet paper, fresh fruit, moto rides, the view from our roof, dinner by candlelight/twinklelight, sharing dinner with fellow volunteers, getting creative with massive amounts of zucchini, the roosters who will never let me miss the bus in the AM, LIFE (I thought I was going to die from feverish hallucinations last night), soo, I'm grateful my sister will be a nurse, that I have lots of health hookups back home, thanks Dr. Nott and Lynn for those malaria pills, I will enjoy my crazy dreams and stay away from the squitoes; Skype dates; movie nights; bachata music; rice water; caring people who nurse you back to health, country playlists (thanks Kate)...