turning 2and6 in South America

My brother sent me this cute pics…My nephew saying Happy Bday in Albanian…
This was one of the most fun bdays of my whole life. I had never had so many surprise parties and cakes all in one day.
I am so amazed how generous people can be even when they are really…really poor. Some of [...]

movie theater

Saturday I took some of the kids to the movies. It was their first time in a movie theater. It was fun to be around them….They had taken a ball with them and wanted to play inside the theater. They started to hide food underneath their shirts because they were not allowed to take it [...]

getting out of the country

Well, I didn’t really think that in order to get out of Ecuador for only 11 days…it would take so many procedures and so much time. The saga didn’t end with the American embassy. In order to leave Ecua one needs to have a Census card ($4) and a “exit doc” ($4). And pay 40$ [...]

Qesteri Boys

My brothers and nephew…Wow!!! Four more months till this picture will become reality to me!!

Int’ Women’s Day…

Well, it’s Women’s Day in most of parts of the world. Back in Albania it’s Mom’s day so I just wanted to say: Happy Women’s Day!
I have been thinking a lot about that lately. I teach a group of 8 Ecuadorian women. The classes are supposed to be covering math, Spanish reading/writing and health. [...]