crazy day

This will be short since I have lots of homework...
Today I went to service learning, and had a good time. No one was too difficult and I felt helpful. After, I was able to go home for lunch since we didn't have normal classes; instead we went to a museum. to get there, Dan and I were going to meet the rest of the class at the Estadio Trolley stop since we live closer to the Trolley line than school. After a very complicated trip involving three fares instead of one and a varity of phone calls since our teachers decided to take the other trolley-type bus line (the Ecovia) instead of the Trolley, Dan and I got to the correct meeting location. We both reached for our phones to call the other group; he was successful, but I was not. Someone took my phone out of my front jeans pocket without me noticing at all on the third leg of the Trolley trip. That was a bummer. I'm not going to buy a new one because it's not worth the $70+ it would cost to get a cheap bar phone here, although if someone in my family happens to have an old phone, I'll see if I can use it for the next few weeks. We'll see. I'm glad it wasn't my normal US phone though; if I had lost that I'd be very disappointed. As far as phone theft goes, though, I was really lucky. Edan had her phone stolen when she was walking down the street near school after a soccer game talking on the phone; someone hit her head, grabbed her phone and ran off. Beto (Dan's Ecuadorian host brother) had his phone stolen at gunpoint when he walked out of his gate in front of his house. All of these happened during the day. Oh Ecuador...

The museum was interesting; it was a history of Quito from the early indigenous people to the 1900s ish. The tourguide spoke in Spanish, but we were able to follow pretty much everything, which was nice. After, some of us got ice cream in the Old Town, and then I met up with Tyler, my friend from cons who's spending the year in Esmeraldas but is in Quito for the week. We had a successful conversation in Spanish and then switched to English since he never uses it haha. We had greek/arabic ish food, which was delicious and a very nice way to finish off the day (other than all the homework that I have.)

Overall today, I took two buses and 6 Trolleys, for a total of $2, which is less than one adult peak fare in Seattle haha. I also still have a really weird upper chest/throat pain which is no longer heartburn; it hurts when I eat large bites, take big drinks, or breathe deeply. If it still hurts tomorrow I'm going to go to a doctor. I still think I've been the healthiest out of my whole group though!