a plug

a psuedo-friend of mine has started keeping a blog as well. well, she has been keeping it for a while but recently sent me a link to it. she's a pseudo-friend cause really i've only crossed her path a couple of times although we keep making plans to visit vegetarian restaurants via email (the making plans part) that keep falling apart in the guayaquil sun.

so... let me introduce dana hill. she's a go-getter, a daughter of the world so to speak, born and raised in florida but really the sunshine state couldn't hold on to her. i googled her before we sat down to talk and found out that she's a volunteering machine, and also that her hair style has radically changed - for the good. anyway, she is experiencing a side of guayaquil and ecuador that i rarely glimpse and provides a wonderful counter point to my upper-class witticisms. she's working in the south of the city, the place where i have been told to watch myself and never venture after dark (or really anytime if i'm alone). there is no policentro at her doorstep, nor high speed internet downstairs.

to get a more nuanced feel for life here, in all its manifestations, check out her ruminations,

Gringa in Guayaquil