Viva Ecuador!

Hostel Arco Del Sol, Quito, Ecuador

This trip is proving to be an incredible life experience... Today I thought would be highly uneventful, having arrived back from the jungle at 2am last night we got a good 7 hours sleep and at half nine we were downstairs for breakfast. We then made our way to our old internet of Papaya Net where I found out that we'd had a few problems with work stuff...

Then there was the football... Ecuador versus Argentina in the Latin American qualifiers for the World Cup. Not being the most avid football fan I was strangely drawn to this game... The bright yellow shirts all around me and the fondness I had developed for this country and its people really made the event an important specticle. In addition, they were the underdogs, against a strong Argentinian team, above them in the league.

Whilst uploading the photos of our jungle trip for friends and family I watched as the Ecuadorians mounted strike upon strike on the Argentinian defence but ended the first half with no goals. It wasn't until half way through the secind half that they managed to break through and score the first goal... A cheer broke out throughout the bar and I couldn't help but join in whilst watching the replay of a fantastic, and deserved goal.

It was in the dying minutes that they scored the second goal and the party began, passing cars beeping their horns in celebration and the seas of yellow and blue spreading from the Olympic stadium into the streets... and even now, 6 hours later, I can hear the Fiesta continuing, probably late into the morning.

But our night consisted of much more than football... Meeting up with our friends Ernesto, Carla and Fransisco who took us on a tour of some diverse, but really great bars of Quito and provided interesting, funny and equally diverse conversation and discussion. Their work is fantastic, taking me back to our dreams of Freestyle Junkies and the freedom of being an artist, someone so passionate about what they do, that they find every way to allow them to do it, most of all, through hard work and dedication. Tomorrow we will meet them again but for now I will sleep as its another early start on our Ecuadorian adventure.