My Ecuaventure

Well, a lot has happened since I last updated this here blog. First, and most importantly, I finally found a place to live. My PC boss had to come do 2 separate site visits to help me out, but in the end we finally found one. It’s a little out of my budget (PC has different living allowance classifications and I’m in the lowest, so my rent max is $70/mo) – the new place is $100 a month so my boss is trying to see if PC will grant me a rent increase for the extra $30 or I might just have to pay out of pocket. The place is really great though, not sure if it’s worth $100 or if the landlady just saw desperate gringa and decided to raise the price a little bit, but either way I’m glad everything got sorted out. It’s in the middle of Cebadas (the town next door), so there are definitely more people around. The trade off is pretty straightforward- campo changed into “city”, birds waking me up every morning between 6 and 7 has changed to construction trucks booming by between 5 and 6, s