I just took today’s malaria pill, and I’m not allowed to lay down for the next 30 minutes. So, what better thing would there be to do that to write a quick blurb about what I did today!
So what did I do? I MET THE PRESIDENT OF ECUADOR!!!! Well, not really….I merely saw him from a distance. But still, I have been living in the US for nearly 20 years and have been in the proximity to our President twice; I come to Ecuador and in less than 24 hours, I have already achieved that! Here’s a picture I took of him (apparently, in the last election there were 10 candidates, and he still won with 54% of the votes. He is very popular and the people were going crazy for him! He was executive branch crack cocaine and we were the desperate power-hungry tricks.)
It seemed my classmates and I had stumbled upon the changing of the guard ceremony in the historic plaza of Quito. I just found it truly ironic that I found myself in a military ceremony on the same day as Memorial Day back home! Soon the ceremony ended and we were off; however, we were given but a sampling of the addictive charm of the president and we wanted more. Our group walked up to the palace gates….and guess what….THEY LET US IN!! Apparently it’s no big deal in Quito to request entrance to the palace. We were in, but unfortunately for us, the source of our newfound addiction was behind several heavily guarded gates and up many flights of stairs. Nevertheless, I was still able to make a new friend amid the disappointment.
Disclaimer: If the “tartness” of the metaphor presented in today’s blog was a little too pungent, I’d blame the malaria pill.
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