Nomad JuanCa's Report

Oh yeah, today i was there. at Universidad Espiritu Santo (UEES) my future University (i hope...). I had to fix some stuff in the Alegro PCS store in the morning, then going to the headquarters where i got some more troubles that were sort of solved by midday (as you can see... i do work for them also on week days). Well, then i decided i would go there... you know.. they will start classes in January and i know i have few time to arrive there and get involved in their system.

First thing, i knew their campus was sort of outside of the city... so i went to the Juan Tanca Marengo Avenue...but i was wrong, there is the Tecnologico Espiritu Santo there (that belongs to them ass well but it is not same as the University) ... it was already 2pm and i was told University had moved to... Samborondon. I was so, so, so, so surprised, first cause that is also out of the city, but so fucking far from my house and from where i was in that moment, second... i was surprised cause Samborondon is fulled of really VIP neighbourhoods which is good visually speaking but bad for your feet, why? cause it is quite hard to get there if you own a car.. and quite hard to get out of there too.

Called Mom to tell her what had happened and she told me.. well come to visit your sister and you can go there other day it is already late, but i said: No, i want to go there today, i want to get done with this. Basically cause i know if i don't start pushing this forward... i will not make it. So went downtown to see if i could find any buss that takes me there and i could not. I was advised to go to the terminal, which is right at the end of the city in the north, took a buss and he didn't know where the University was....but i got in, at least the buss go in the way to Samborondon, it would leave me near. I sort of knew the zone, cause Alegro PCS used to make some product launch in some fancy discos of the zone. I got worried for a while cause we had gone long way and i didn't see any sign of the University until finally.. i saw this.

I was so happy, got off the buss and walked for about a km (later on i realised i had gone wrong way and there was a shorter way to reach the University), i was getting afraid.. you know.. the zone is quite VIP i was thinking... damn.. prices... transportation... payment... it is not going to work :( but kept on walking, at least i had to arrive there, once there i could say to myself i didn't fail me... when i saw this.

Yep, this is the University, one of the entrances, and then i saw this building you see in the other pic, quite modern and i though...ahh it is right behind the shopping centre (riocentro puntilla), i should have known it... but when i was getting closer i realised.. it was not the shopping centre at all.. that modern building belongs to the University, wow.... impressive.

Infrastructure of this University is superior to the one in Catholic University, two or three times, nice buildings, everything luxurious, walls, floor, doors, COMPUTERS IN THE CORRIDORS oh my God!!! i hadn't seen that anywhere here.. only in Peru. wow... well decorated, damn.. you felt great just being there.. i guess studying there must be.. amazing.

By the way, did i mentioned that they have cameras everywhere? internal circuit for safety.. wow...of course the parking was full of last generation cars, i think the oldest was from 2003.

I started to think.. this might not be my place.. why? cause i remember at Catholic University i used to envy those people who had more possibilities than me, because you know.. life is not fair, sometimes you have to work really hard to get few things and others get everything doing nothing... you have to suffer to go to the end of the fucking city to study.. and they take their last generation car to go there sometimes to do nothing. Well... i didn't want to feel like that again. Although i was there so i had to explore.

Well after walking around the buildings, full of cameras, announcements in English, and Spanish, lot of art and cultural things on the walls i could finally reach to the ICP (International Career Program) luckily cause due to so many pics i was taking people started to look at me like if i would just arrive from the country side. I entered then and asked for information about the IUP (International University Program) and this girl there said.. what? I knew it... there is always someone like that everywhere... so i explained the meaning of IUP with my perfect English (time to feel superior huh? ;) she called someone else to explain me and well, the other girl came and started to talk to me and some stuff but i wanted something to read, something to touch, something to examinate and evaluate if this would be the place i want to spend my following years.. and she arranged me a meeting with the director, uuuuhhhh!!!

I met this man, off course perfectly well dressed but with some problems in their facial muscles that generate tips in his face when he was speaking, then i though... it could be too much stress, or it could be the way God teach us sometimes to be less marginative with others. He was quite opened, quite friendly, like none i had seen before (and like nothing you will ever see in the Catholic University), i guess he was not used to meet future students, cause he didn't know where to start but it was kind for him to receive me so i asked and asked and asked.

His first question was... what about your English? i answered, mine is fine he was looking at me like... Really? then i realised he should have heard that before, so i started to share with him more about my profile, my experience in this international organisation that allowed me to travel among 5 countries, and to attend English speaking conferences, plus living in Moscow for about a year and my 3 years at Catholic University studying International Business Administration with mention in languages. He asked.. have you taken TOEFL? ... no i haven't. I started to be scared.

Well the meeting was fine, we talked a lot, he gave me lot of info and the wrap up goes like this...

• I need to present an English test to check my English level prior to join the career. My exam was scheduled for next Friday december 8th.


• I have to bring my transcripts from the subjects i have taken at Catholic University to see if they can accept them so i don't have to repeat them


• The i have to choose the schedule i will have cause they are starting classes on January 8th in an intensive period.

The other important problem, sorry i meant.. point, was.. the payment. Every subject costs 309 usd if you take them in English, people normally take 2 or 3. which makes almost 1000 USD, as they have their classes in bimester, it means that every subject ends in 7 weeks or 7,5 weeks in the case i take 3 subjects i will have to pay them all in 3 payments all before the bimester ends. Just take into account my basic salary in Alegro PCS is 200 usd and with comissions it reaches 300 usd perhaps... and well, i have to eat, pay electricity, transportation, 4 credit cards, internet, to pay the laptop.... i usually finds myself without any money. So... the University and it all sounds very nice... but i am not sure i can afford it, in fact... i cannot afford it, what i am not sure if i can find a way to cover it.

Well, asked everything to this man, and asked everything in the financial department, now i have to start looking for grants, something not so popular here... worst if i was never such a good student. I mean i wasn't bad, i was normal.. although due to Aiesec i never focused to my studies properly.... so... now it is affecting me. Ok, i am wrong in what i said, but you know.. it is frustrating to be in this position... i do want to study, but i don't have the money... grants are mostly for those who always had good grades, ok i didn't worry about that before, but i have the will to study, doesn't it count? I will discover it in the following days... where i will start to make a research for different possibilities here to get a grant.

In the mean time, well... i will be studying English to see if i can make it well in the exam, i am very confident.

I know you all hate me for my pics of everything i see, but guys.. you have to see this, i went to the Malecon del Salado again because i had to visit this client one more time, and i took the chance to take some pics during night.. come on, check this out!!

I know you will kill me but i could not left this pics without being shared. This is my beautiful Guayaquil

Today something strange happened to me, just after i sent my first spam as alumni coordinator inviting everybody for the congress (that i still have to create out of nothing) i got an email... better say an invitation that says like this....

Dear Red haired:

Congratulations for your position in AIESEC, it is so cool to know that people like you are still there giving a hand to the aiesecers, very good choice, by other hand i had written to you an email long time ago but i think you didn't get it, i want you to please help me out with your home or work address where i can send you the invitation for my marriage ceremony that will happen on January 20th and i hope you do all you can to be here, i would really like to count with your assistance.

Also help me out with the mobile of Cynthia and Gonzalo, they are also invited.

Greetings

María José Bahamonde
GERENTE ADMINISTRATIVO - FINANCIERA EXPOFLORES

"

I was astonished, i knew Ma Jose (pepa) and Jose are going to get married but never thought/expected they would invite me. Why? Basically she was my MCP when i was MCVP here in Ecuador and ... well in my opinion she was never supportive, she menaced us (Cynthia and me) to go to live in Quito otherwise we would be kicked out of the MC even knowing there was no money to pay our salaries there... the result? i spent a year strugling, starving, having only few french fries for dinner or only bread and coke, sometimes not having lunch, and for sure never having breakfast. I even had to walk around the streets looking on the floor to see if i could find any coin... 0.10usd or anything so i could at least drink some coke. I lost lot of weight, a lot... still... we moved there and did our best. We were left alone, none cared if Cynthia and me had eaten anyhing, Yaga (Polland) and Virgis (Lithuania) the other MC members were living with Pepa and they had everything at her house.

That was a part, the other part was that she was always giving to everybody the image of a compassive MCP while using Cynthia and me for the bad news to the LCs, she won the elections in an arranged way between LC Cuenca and LC Quito, and to finish with it... when i ran for MCP after my term, she was in clear opposition to me, and organized a selection committee that said almost nothing good about me. I wasn't present in that, but my friends later on told me...

There was even someone from Quito who asked the selection committee: Ok but at least say something good about JuanCa, and one of them said: We are not saying anything good or bad about him it is just our perception, you take it as you wish. When i lost the elections (not knowing everything they had said about me) Pepa came running to me crying... and saying ohh JuanCa i am so sorry... this is horrible. I though she was sincere, and her tears made me cry as well, after the election... slowly my friends came... and they started to tell me the thruth... all the things she said, all the things that other members of that selection committee said.. they gave the impression i was a crazy guy dangerous for AIESEC,... after a year of hunger...stopping my university, moving to another city without a salary... they just didn't value anything.

I remember two comments that night after i lost elections...

Virginijus Doveika my team member came and said... ohh man... i tried to screw you up... pitty i could not (cause i answered his question written in japanese in front ALL of the members to proove if i really spoke the language).

Cecilia Sacoto(Pepa's best friend) came to me during the party where everybody was crying so i did.. and she said... Oh your are crying? didn't you say the lost didn't hurt you?? it hurts isn't it??.

I know it was 5 years ago, but it was something that hit me deeply, next week after that congress i stopped going out with none in Quito, LC members and MC, i just hanged out with Cynthia who was the only one i could trust. Well ... i guess it is reason enough not to expect to be invited to Pepa's marriage. Perhaps i was that bad as a person, something i don't believe, but at the end God knows how things should be. Russia was my paradise where i became the person i wanted to be.

When i returned, i met Pepa couple of times, we always scream and ran of emotion when seeing each other and share a long and strong hug... i was not hypocratic, i was sincere in a way and diplomatic in other. Sincere cause i was happy of seeing Pepa not for her, but for the remembrances of that year where eventhough all that happened Ecuador reached the 5th level in development inside the region in terms of exchanges, my role in the MC. So i was happy to see her, as much as i would be happy to see the office where i worked. I was diplomatic as well, cause i learnt in Russia one can never fight with anyone, time flies and speak louder.

This invitation surprised me, and i answered. Yes, Pepa i will be there. Why? perhaps it is time to forget and forgive, this is all still a pain in me but if she invited me, it perhaps means something. Not sure if excuses, or self pride for getting married before all of us (lol) or perhaps despite all the things that happened, that year in Quito left a mark on us, a mark that kept us together until now, does not matter how different we are, during a year we worked for the same goal, and we got it. The improvement of AIESEC in Ecuador.

I decided it is time to forgive, i have to be sincere saying i don't think i will be able to take this out from me fast, but i will try, by accepting this invitation i am giving my first step forward to overcome everything that happened, and i promise to try to arrive there with a clean heart. Getting married with someone you love is a special moment in life, and for the future couple and for the respect i have towards love i want to contribute to the good wishes and good vibrations they will get that night. Whatever happened before... it was before.... and was left out there, in the cold nights of Quito, the JuanCa many of you knew died there... and a new JuanCa was born and rised in Moscow. This JuanCa wants to learn to forgive all those people that hurt him during his life. I want to learn the power of forgiveness.

In Guayaquil (Ecuador) we have several rivers surrounding the city and parts of them also bathing different parts of the city, thats why we have two very touristical places you have to visit, first and most known is Malecon 2000, but today i want to show you some pics of the Malecon del Salado.

At Malecon del Salado you will find lot of interesting parts, like a small lake where you can drive small ships remotelly, or this part you see in the pic that you can navigate in a canoe or marine bike. Malecon del Salado es right next to the State University, so it is always full of young people, local government keeps it clean and in good state. From this malecon there are several extentions that go to other parks created nearby, like the one going to the lineal park, or the one i will show you in pics today which is actually the newest part of this malecon, where people will be able to come and have a nice walk while relaxing...mmm isn't it nice?

Local government is really trying to make these extentions ecologically friendly and this is all product of several years of hard work and decontamination of the Estero Salado that was totally poluted until several years ago, seeing this one feels quite happy of living in a city that goes forward and develops.

This specific bridge is called "the Sailing Ship" because of its appearance, at night it gets illuminated by bleue and white lights, providing a very nice view

Well, today i went to work in the morning at the store, sold nothing...but.. well.. thats life, i will keep on going in the morning until the end of this month, to see if i can sell something else.These days i am going through a kind of difficult part of my life... facing the truth. One always things it is easy, but it is not.. specially when feelings are involved.Well.. sometimes one sees that despite what you do and how much effort your invest in letting know others they are special for you... sometimes they just don't care about it.

I am really starting to believe that there is no a person, you know a special one for each one of us, there are some special people for some lucky others, but perhaps there are others who are in charge just to help love to grow and expand.. without being part of it, if so... that's my case. In March 2007 i will be 2 years single, and not that i haven't dated people... i have, and have slept with even more those i have dated, but well, this special person just don't show up... might never do it i think. Of course it puts me a bit down, but i am not desperated about it, with the time passing by... i get more and more used to this idea. The idea is sad but if it is how life has to be... then we do nothing regreting about it... better keep on living.

I have some pics of my city i took a week ago and will share with you in the next post.

Well, i did it as i said, talked to the administrator.... well... there is something happening inside this store, i perhaps saw it but i didn't want to accept it. Well, the thing is that the administrator and her sister-in-law have something against the other girl who works here. I think the administrator see her as a menace for her position, that is why she does not want her to learn the administrative part of the business, something we all know in the store.

Worst thing is that i am in the middle of them, i have to smile to the administrator, smile to her sister-in-law, and to this girl too. Needles to say i have to be careful with what i say.... damn.. women are so complicated!.

Well as for the reports we agree witht he administrator that i will be in charge of the reports on sunday, the other person working on weekends will make the report of saturday, and the days when Martha (the girl they are against to) works, the administrator will work whole day too.... all not to let her touch the money or the administrative part, which is silly in my point of view. The administrator told me to work tomorrow so i can increase my sales, so... now you see why i say i not only work on weekends? from tuesday to thursday i will be working in the store from 10am to 1pm, then i also have a meeting with a client, and on wednesday afternoon i have to go visit a client who has to give me some docs, so... i really don't have much free time, just today. Hopefully on wednesday or thursday i will go to the UEES to ask about the studies. I was checking and i notice that for any Bachelor in Science the subjects are almost the same in the basic level, checking the rest of the cv i will take Foreign Trade or International Business, i liked them more than Marketing. So cross your fingers.

ahh by the way, i took some pics from the window of my house... i know i know.. i like pictures, well this is how Ecuador looks like.

Well as you all know, i normally like my job... this thing of ALEGRO PCS, a mobile phone company new in the market where i have been working for about two years, it is actually the longest time i have been working anywhere outside Aiesec, i normally stay 1 year in every job and then move. All was fine with the job, i work only on weekends and holidays and earn what many salesman earn working the whole week, also needles to say that i never receive my basic salary but i always get more due to the comissions.

So.. what's the problem? well... i am starting to get tired of the situation inside, i mean.... there is no view or chance to grow in there.. at least not more than a salesman... whenever they need to fill out any position they rather hire new people than promote us, there was these client service guys, who are new, they earn 100usd more than us, and have a sort of easier job... they earn usually more than 400usd due to their interactions with the public, even more.. one of them told us that at the headquarters some of them earn over 1000 usd. .... isn't it a good reason for not being happy with my job where the most i have earned this year was 480usd after a hardworking month.

Also, i am very competitive person, i know i have a quite soft schedule, but i am always the one who sells less mobiles, cause i have less working hours the other two girls get to earn up to 600usd after a hard working month... i was thinking to ask for a change in my schedule, but i am affraid of losing the free time i have, eventhough it is not totally real, cause i also work during week days, i visit clients and all that stuff so i really have only 2 or 3 days free, other days i have to do something for Alegro, always.

Also another trouble my boss is leaving on charge of the store during weekends, and that means i am the last responsible for everything, and she wants me to do everything, invoicing, reports and so on. It usually happens like today, i sold 2 mobiles in the morning then i had to do the report of yesterday which took about 2 hours or so, cause it is a long shit and in that time the other girl working there sold 6 mobiles. Is it fair? No, i don't think so. At the beginning i liked the idea of being in charge of the store cause i though it had to be more with responsibility and that it would help me to reach new levels inside the company but after almost two years i see it has not taken me anywhere.

I am not very sure of what to do, as i am planning to study next year to work on weekends only might be useful cause i will have more time to dedicate to my studies, but i will keep on earning less than others, also... i was thinking i could get another job on week days so i will make something like 400usd as a basis plus comissions, but Alegro sometimes require us to attend trainings and they make it during working hours, so how will i be able to attend them if i will be working somewhere else. I was thinking in doing something, but i am not sure of what... i don't want things to get worst... i want them to improve, i was thinking in asking to be moved to another store, and actually i did it before but it wasn't accepted a friend of mine did it and things for her have been gettig worst and worst. :( any suggestion?

Well as for the rest life is fine, i have to go tomorrow morning to the store again cause i could not finish the report of today....:((( also my boss wants to offer me some sport shoes she got :((, don't know what to do i think i will talk to her about the reports, it is the only thing coming to my mind so far.

I mentioned about my new computer, so i wanted to share the pics of it with you, here they come. Isn't it a nice piece of information technology?.. some people even get amazed i have a flat screen of 17"... yep, a sign reminding me i live in third world

Hi there, guess what... i am blogging!!! oh yeah and it is not thanks to the bloody laptop that is still death... it is because... I BOUGHT A NEW COMPUTER!! I know i know.. you all might think i am insane, but believe me i had to do something and the only thing i though to solve this shit soon was to buy a new computer, but don't worry this one is not a laptop but a desktop, actually a Compaq pentium 4 with a 17" flat screen :) not so bad huh?

So far it works incredibly fine, it feels so good to own a computer that works properly.... Well, i had some pics of it and also some pics i took in Guayaquil the other day but i forgot them at work, i have to get them soon cause i also had some personal pics that CANNOT be seen by anyone ;)

So.. well regarding the subject of this post... i am planning to go back... to University, oh yeah.. well it is a long story but the thing is that when i joined MC in Ecuador and was FORCED to move to Quito i also had to stop my University, then i moved to Moscow to work as MC... and when i came back, i had no money, so i had to try to find a job asap, well... things were different, suddenly i became a supplier at home, being the only one working as my Mother is retired, and with a salary of 200 USD per month, you cannot do many things here. So well... since 2001 i stopped my University, ... i had no interest about it, Mom was always telling me i should go back.... but well.. i just didn't feel like doing so (i bet none really does). I had though about it, really... but there were always things to do, things to pay, there was always this thing of trying to find a career that could motivate me to learn, not to get a diploma, all these years it all seemed not to fix into one specific period of time until now.

It all started about a month ago with the horoscope, i know i know.. it sounds silly.. and you know i am not the kind of person who let horoscope guide his life but.. one day i read a horoscope in a low level newspaper here and it said something like "Holly spirits from Heaven are urging you to go back to University and finish your studies otherwise you won't be successful in life and will get disappointed" i know it is silly... but shocking too. Not because it comes from a horoscope.. but because it talks about something i have always been affraid of.... an unhappy, unrealised life, and i don't say it like someone who does not accept failures, believe me.. i am very humble, after have had to look for coins on the street to see if i could eat something, or having a bread and a coke for dinner for long time (that unforgettable year in Quito as MC of AIESEC in Ecuador) i learnt the meaning of being humble... but what i am referring is to the fact that none really wants to fail in life. This horoscope got me thinking, i called Mom and she said "well, finally God found a way to make you react about it". I started to think, i always dreamt with being a high level executive in a Multinational, i learnt languages and all that... but... what do i do now? sales in a national company where they don't need nor value my skills, i do speak more languages than any of my bosses, but it does not matter, i am the bad paid all the time.

Well, got a month thinking and thinking and decided that i would go back if i found something that called my attention, couple of weeks ago i met a guy who studied with me at High School, he is like 2 or 3 years younger than me and off course, he has a degree but he studied at UEES and then i remembered, this University has an international university program, where you can study like if you were abroad and you can study in English, which is a big challenge and i love it. Started to ask him more about it and well, he was not able to tell me much but somehow inside my heart i felt the desire to study that.... so i am planning to go back to University. Today i downloaded some files about the careers they offer, so far i am more in the side of B. S. Business Management with mention in international business or foreign trade or marketing, i will read them carefully and then i will visit the University, somehow i have to start moving cause it seems they start classes on January... so... lets see how it goes, wish me luck.

Hey there, here i wanted to share some pics with you. I took these pics the other day at the store where i work... not much to say today... just relaxing, being november sales are not that high as expected... hope it changes soon. Cheers, JuanCa

Needles to say that i don't work in shorts....i was out of working schedule when i took them.

Here i also post a picture of Ivonne, a friend who works in the LEE store next to ours. isn't she pretty?

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Last week we had Xavier's party at Alegro PCS store, Xavier is a co worker who is a cool guy, sometimes a bit slow as for what i like, i mean in working speed, but still he is a good co worker. We all colaborate with some money, and bough a cake and coke to celebrate him, not much to say, pics talk for themselves.

Here in the pic: Xavier with blue shirt, Shirley Quimi on his left and Rosa Orellana seated.

I personally feel very happy with my work in Alegro PCS, at least in what team work refers, it is actually one of the best teams i have ever joined, i can say they are all hard workers and we really work lot, and reach results, there are still some internal problems caused by the inmaturity of some people but it is not enough to affect our team work.

Here is Xavier turning off the candles and making a wish, something very traditional here, there is the believe that if you make a wish while turning off the candles and don't say it to anyone, it will make true.

A pic of the cake, i am sorry but come the cake was looking great and tasting even better, it had to inmortalized.!!

Not all the team was present, here we are 8 people in the store, but as it was late not everybody could come, still we had a great time, and all the others called Xavier to wish him a good day. That's the good part of a good team, small things does not affect the strong unity we have.

Happy Birthday Xavi!!

My Trip to Manta

Well, guess what.... the laptop failed same kernel_data_inpage_error :((( i really don't know what to do...but
well... it is life, my sister told me that she will try to format it again and install the windows xp from other cd
in case the cd coming with the laptop is wrong.

So i will take the chance to post my pics from my Manta trip now before they fade away.

Manta

I went to Manta next day after Portoviejo, actually short time, i arrived midday and left around 8pm but well i have
been in Manta several times in the last 10 years cause we have an LC there, so i think i can say i know the
city....thats why i went there, there are some beautiful views in Manta i love. There several beaches in Ecuador, but
those i love the most from those i know... Manta and Montanita, and Manta even more than Salinas, why? Check out the
pics!!

Manta is still considered a small city in Ecuador, but i can tell you it has been growing lot during past years,
specially since we signed an agreement to let U.S.A. stablish an american base on the city. Lot of people complain
about it, but i can tell you for sure, the base has helped a lot the city and its inhabitants, now there are more english speakers, better jobs,
the presence of the americans have also promoted the commerce and tourism.

As Manta is placed right in front of the Pacific Ocean its main acitvity is fishing, so most of the bigges tuna
producing companies have their offices there and ther ships, another good think in Manta nowadays....English teaching
;) there are lot of academies there always willing to hire native speakers as teachers, that's the reason why the
LC Manta is selling LOT of TN's in education every year.

Regarding food, everything made of fish is traditional in Manta and the
are lot of places to eat, but the really best are right on the beach, the one called "Playa Murcielago" here a
sample of a lunch in Manta.

Doesn't it look tasty?

In what refers to infraestructure Manta is very well provided of nice hotels, from cheap but good, to not so cheap
and very good, lets say Oro Verde Hotels, Sheraton four points, and so on, apart from that several modern buildings
with suites available for foreigners furnished with full comodities.

The beach is wide and clean.... and nice... and....well....better check it... there is something on this beach that
cannot be explained in words.

Hope you all like my pics, i can surely say travelling to Manta was very nice and relaxing, i didn't meet anyone
there so sorry guys for not showing up but..... believe me... the beach got me.

Hi there, this is my report of last week trip to Portoviejo. As you all know i had to work during holidays and as i haven't really have time for free lately and felt very tired i decided that i should go in a trip.... so i did. Destination? Portoviejo and Manta at Mababi Province.

Before that i had to do some stuff and Alegro PCS Headquarters, went there with Rose a co worker and Paola her friend, it was nice had to get some things done before leaving, so i could not leave in the early morning but around midday. But it was nice, here i am the moment i was about to travel.

I was very excited about this trip, last time i went to Manabi was 7 months ago, so you can see now for how long i have been out of the road... too much huh?

The Trip

Portoviejo is 3.30 hours far from Guayaquil, it is placed in the coast zone but closer to the Pacific Ocean. Portoviejo is also the capital of the Province of Manabi, but due to touristic interest i think that Manta is still more developed. In the recent years Portoviejo have been facing lot of new things, new and modern buildings are being made, which contrast with the typical model of house we have here and the village air there is always in small towns.

There are several companies travelling to Portoviejo from Guayaquil, the ticket normally cost 4 usd which i consider very cheap, don't you think? as i made my trip by midday i had the chance to see the different landscapes we go through as we reach Manabi, here are some shots for you to enjoy.

Manabi Province also as the rest of my country is very focused in agriculture, since we have lot of space to plant. Portoviejo is full of big farms of fruits, vegetable, and also milk producers.

Something very typical in this zone, specially out of the city itself, is the farmer house, they are all made of wood, and always in a second floor, why? because in the old times when the rainy season started many times rivers went out of their way and house were surrounded by water. That's why there is always a canoe at the lowe side of all this houses, just in case.

This phenomenon is still happening nowadays but i think less than before.... so now they use the low part of the houses to keep animals, like porks, ducks, and so on.

The trip was very nice, really... calmed as i was travelling in a not so crowded time i was almost alone in the bus as you can see in the pic, ahhh.... peace..... happinesss...... isn't it great??? I loooooooooooveeee it!!!

well also during the trip one cannot really feel alone, cause wherever you look at, there is always something interesting and exciting, like my friend the donkey travelling in a car next to me, who said animals cannot be nomads?

The donkey sent warm greetings to all of you nomads around the world :))

Once in Portoviejo i visited my friend Einstein, who is a Veterinary in the city, i haven't seen him for long long time so it was good to meet and remember good old times :)

As i arrived around 6pm i could not take much shots of the city, Einstein kindly took me for a ride and went around some parts of the city, i can just say that Portoviejo is very alive at night, eventhough its internet access sucks....well nothing is perfect, but something that does not suck is the food and the accomodation, this is something we call "seco de chivo" which i don't know how to translate but i can just tell you that tastes very very good. Regarding accomodation, as i said i found a hotel called "Paraiso" just right in front of the Bus Station (Terminal Terrestre) in Portoviejo, a clean place, confortable but not fancy, might not receive any star but bed is nice, room is big enough, there is fan, a tv with cable, all this for a reasonable price of 8usd per night, i think it is a good deal. So whenever you have the chance, come to visit this city, i am sure you will like it.

I stayed that night in portoviejo, and remained almost half of the next day before heading to Manta which is 30 to 45 mins away. Pics of my trip to manta... come soon. Kawabonga Nomads!!!

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Hi, well today i read something that i wanted to share with you, i will post it in english, spanish an russian to you all to understand, think about it... hope you like.

Spanish Version

La fe consciente es libertad.
La fe instintiva, esclavitud.
Y la fe mecánica es locura.
La esperanza consciente es fuerza.
La esperanza emocional, cobardía.
Y la esperanza mecánica es un mal.
El amor consciente llama al amor.
El amor emocional, lo inesperado.
Y el amor mecánico llama al odio.

English Version

Conscious faith is freedom.
Instinctive faith is slavery.
Mechanical faith is madness.
Conscious hope is strength.
Emotional hope is cowardice.
Mechanical hope is sickness.
Conscious love arouses love.
Emotional love arouses the unexpected.
Mechanical love arouses hate.

Russian Version

«Осознанная вера - это свобода.
Инстинктивная вера - это рабство.
Механическая вера - это безумие.
Осознанная надежда - это сила.
Эмоциональная надежда - это трусость.
Механическая надежда - это болезнь.
Осознаваемая любовь пробуждает любовь.
Эмоциональная любовь пробуждает нежданное.
Механическая любовь пробуждает ненависть.»

Hello, this is a short post, few days ago i was working, went to visit a client to offer our service of broadband internet, and well, he bought it, but i was so tired under such a hard sun.... then i had arranged a meeting with Franchesca, the MCP who wanted to talk to me about the new Supervisory group that AIESEC is trying to create. The sun, was so intense i could not properly see (the problem when you are blond of red hair is that you eyebrows cannot protect your eyes from sunlight... but sunlight makes them shine just right in front your eyes which spoils your vision.... as you can see in the pics.

Well after 29 years with this problem you kind of get used to, but the nice thing was when i went to the Malecon in Guayaquil, to meet Franchesca, there was such a nice image in one of our monuments that i had to record it in photo and as i am becoming a paparazzi latelly, here it is.... Bolivar, Saint Martin and the sunlight. I hope you like them.

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Oh my God... i have to say that my sister and my brother-in-law are my new tech gods....sorry Dody you were my only allmighty tech god but these two guys have made an amazing job with my laptop, it is almost 3 days and it haven't failed!! at all!!! mmmm well... there was some error with the generic host process for win32 (whatever that means....) but i guess it was because i installed a PCMCIA card (this i understand... but i bet you don't heheheh) for the internet, i uninstalled the card and the error disappeared.

After getting the laptop back came the most difficult part.... customize it. The way i want it, mmmm.... deleted lot of stuff, installed some, i even had to delete the antivirus cause it was giving me troubles, actually i didn't want to delete de antivirus but the fucking internet protection plug-in it has but this norton internet security was like a hell, tried to configure it, but then there was some error and the fucking program blocked my outlook to perform email downloading....so... i wanted to delete the internet security, but the whole Norton went with it, and as i don't have the installers.... welcome AVG Free Edition!!.

The pics you are seeing here are a sample of the error message i was getting in my laptop last time, before it died ... for you all tech guy it would be like to see a horror movie, well... for me too.... What tech guys said? troubles with the hard disk, but they kindly found a way to help me so i don't need to buy a new disk right now... being that i am almost broken with all my debts... thinking that i still needs to pay about 400 usd for this expensive piece of shit (like my ex used to call all those expensive bullshit one buys and finally never work as expected. Well... right now i am possitive that this laptop will at least survive 6 months before i need to buy the new hard disk...hope so.... hope so....

Looks like that was the end of "The night of the bloody laptop"!! and be ready to lot of updates cause i have had many things saved during this time. so... let's get started!!...you will have to wait a bit to read this until i can solve a posting trouble with this client... something about "coercing to unicode need string or buffer, none type found" .... whatever it means.

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test test... sorry but got my laptop back and i have to do this again.