I awoke this morning to roosters crowing, and dogs barking….this is the sounds of the alarm clock of the suburbs of Loja
I spent the first 2 nights in a hostel in downtown Loja. The sounds of traffic, and car alarms were the norm.
One of the issues the school has to deal with is housing for the teachers. They are never sure how long a teacher will stay. Some have arrived, and leave the next day…. Some say they will be here for 2 months and stay for 2 years. And since it is Ecuador things happen on a different time scale.
When working out my housing, I had a couple of choices.
I could share a place with several young teachers… Move in with a teaching couple that had a spare room… Or stay with a host family.
All of the teachers I have meet have been very nice, and would have been fine to stay with, but I came here to find out about Ecuador.
So I am staying with a family in a house a little ways from the school ( by Loja standards)
I am still not sure of who lives in the house, and who is visiting/ lives next door/ lives upstairs. There is a constant flow of kids, dogs, and puppies. It is a very happy place everyone smiling and laughing.
No one speaks English. My Spanish is almost none existent.
I think I have made a very good choice to come here, my first impression is that these are very good people.
This is an image of my Casa
