Giovanni's life out there

Monday, May 15, 2006

Adaption process

...strange or normal?
I'm thinking about how fast it goes to adapt. It skipped my mind last Saturday when we were eating some burgers on the street at 10pm before going out and one girl was cold. I wasn't really cold but definitely didn't feel like it was 26 degrees - and it was! You know those things hanging up showing the temperature and time. This thing said 26 - 10.12.

This morning the same. At 9 a.m. when I left the house (I did my laundry before for all the ones that think I have lazy days...!) it was already 28 degrees and I felt like I would in Switzerland with 18 degrees.
Guess that must just be adaption. But I'm kind of surprised how fast this goes on the expamle of the temperature. Not with understanding the bus"system" that's another thing.
But of course there are things I will never adapt... Really, this everyday rice thing is just too little diversity in the food for me!! Damn I miss pasta!!
I'm looking forward to our own flat when we can do our own cooking. Luigi and me will become the pasta chiefs!!! jajaja

By the way MC flat: At the moment I doubt about the MC moving to Quito in June. We neither have an office nor accomodation yet in Quito. Pero no te preocupas - don't worry - that's a sentence you hear a lot over here!
And you know what?! - I don't :-)
EVERYTHING IS GONNA BE ALRIGHT!



What's more in terms of adaption is that I'm doing preety fine with my spanish. Of course it's far away from great but I understand constantly a bit more what people say and can more or less express what I want. The only problem at the moment is that transition is quite though and takes a lot of time so that I don't have personal time to study or take classes which of course would help to improve my spanish. But I have time - lots of time and I'm sure that I will pick it up during the next couple of months.

In the MC we said that thanks to our international team we will be all fluent in spanish, italian (Luigi), french (Dalal) , arab (Dalal) , german (me) and swiss german (me) and maybe some russian (Franchesca) after our term! How cool would that be hey?! Living Diversity rocks!!

Right, by the way, tormorrow we are heading for Salinas, a place at the beach where one of the MC members has a house. In order to change the environment of transition we thought it's a great idea doing it at the beach ;-)
will tell you later about it
que te vaya bien


3 Comments:

  • At Monday, May 15, 2006 8:49:00 PM , Blogger Laura said...

    It's alost 10 p.m. and Yavor and me are sitting in the LC Office, reading your post and envy you for your adventures and BEACH!! UUh wie geil!! Ziudihui! Gisch dem Meer en grüess!

    Yavor und Laura

     
  • At Tuesday, May 23, 2006 7:28:00 AM , Blogger Rob said...

    I really hope i adapt this quickly to the heat in Bangkok, plus the humidity, plus the pollution...

    GOod luck with your language adventure, i guess i should have learnt more Hindi, Hungarian & Slovak this year as well as the few bits of German that sneaked into my brain...

    Am in Rotterdam right now, preparing for my new role. You can follow the progress on rob.nomadlife.org :o)

    Hugs
    Rx

     
  • At Tuesday, May 23, 2006 5:12:00 PM , Blogger SarahEliz said...

    Hey Gio -

    I'm coming back to Colombia! I'll let you know if/when I'll be stopping over to visit Ecuador :)

    -Sarah
    @Madison, USA

     

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