I have just booked my tickets to travel back to Canada at the end of July, when my school contract ends.<\/p>\n
A few things have happened since my last post that make it very important that I make this trip.<\/p>\n
First I had an encounter with a monkey, that required an operation on my arm and a couple of days stay in the hospital. \u00a0I may write more about this experience… but it is such a scary memory that it is difficult to do. \u00a0I really don’t ever want to see that much blood..my own or someone elses, ever again.<\/p>\n
The most important development is, that while I was in the hospital here in Ecuador, my dad was in the hospital in Canada. \u00a0I don’t have all the details of what happened, but he is now home and my parents are waiting for an appointment with a specialist to discuss details.<\/p>\n
It has become a priority that I spend some time with two of the most important people in my life.\u00a0 The big concern is that my visit is a help and not a hindrance.<\/p>\n
Right now I am at a \u201cbetween\u201d point in my life\u2026 I had planned on making a move ( the wanderlust in me )\u00a0\u00a0 It is possible, if I need to, to stay in Canada for an extended period of time, or I could be on my way back here in August.<\/p>\n
If I stay in Canada the question is what to do for employment…. (anybody know of any job openings…. preferably in the KW area.) \u00a0If I leave the question becomes, where would I go.<\/p>\n
Except for the rain, I really like Zamora.\u00a0 It is a nice small friendly city.\u00a0 I know people and I know how things work.\u00a0 I feel comfortable.\u00a0 The problem is I don\u2019t think I will ever be able to make enough money to do more that survive ( nicely) here.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>Loja, on the other hand has potential to make a better life.\u00a0 I can teach.\u00a0 I can do photography.\u00a0 I have some good friends.\u00a0 The problem is the weather.\u00a0 Loja is in the mountains and it gets chilly.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t cold by Canadian standards ( + 10 might be as cold as it gets) but the problem is, that the outside temperature is the inside temperature\u2026 everywhere. I have never been in a building that had any form of heating. A lot of buildings do not even have hot water.<\/p>\n Due to a mud slide on the Loja-Zamora road, I had to spend 3 unexpected days in Loja.\u00a0 It was good because I got to spend it with some friends, but it sucked because I was not prepared\u2026<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>So where does this leave me.\u00a0 I am thinking about the coast\u2026 warm, sea, sand.\u00a0 The problem will be making an income.\u00a0 I have a few weeks to talk with friends who are coasties and see what I can do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have just booked my tickets to travel back to Canada at the end of July, when my school contract […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[353],"class_list":["post-1733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c60-missives-of-a-wandering-eye","tag-loja"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennspecht.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennspecht.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennspecht.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennspecht.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennspecht.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glennspecht.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1734,"href":"https:\/\/glennspecht.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions\/1734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennspecht.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennspecht.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennspecht.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}