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Friday, September 29, 2006

I Suck at this blogging business

So yeah, it s been forever since i wrote... hmmmm so a little update
Ramadan started on saturday and i think this has been the hardest for me, because this is my first ramadan away from my family but also i am in a country were they know nothing about Islam, except maybe about Bin Laden but that is pretty much it. So throughout my teenage years, I always had friends that were fasting and most of the ppl in my surrounding knew about Ramadan. But here nothing, a lot of people don t even know that there are other religions. I have never explained so much in my whole life about Islam, its history, how i am muslim, and don t believe that Jesus is the son of God.l Here i would say 98% of the population is Christian ( so u have the catholics, evangelist etc etc) and 2% other religion ( but so far only met one muslim, he s a french teach, he´s from Tunisia). So the only religions they know about the Christianity, so i have gotten so many reaction when I have said that i am muslim, from surprise, to ¨oh¨, to ¨urg¨, to ¨u re the first muslim i have ever met¨ ( this happens about 99% of the time). Anyways this is a whole other subject and probably will be a post latter on. The subject of religion here in Ecuador is a huge and contraversial one.
So what else have i been up 2. Hehe last Sunday i went to a soccer game... It was the 2 teams from Guayaquil, Barcelona and Emelec. There is such a huge hate btw these 2 teams i could not believe it. So i went with a bunch of friends and bought the cheapest tickets, the tickets were u are sitting with the ¨pueblo¨the people. Hehehhehe. So we get there early, the line is huge to get in, everyone is pushing and swearing, the BO is really bad, and it was soooo blooddy hot. Anyways we get in, find a seat, well sort of .. a place to sit... kindda random place on the stairs... So were just sitting around, ppl are swearing at the other team like i ve never heard. I can now write a book with all the swear words in spanish. Ppl were chearing and singing songs... mostly involved insulting the other team and calling them random names. I reallly enjoyed the game... the team I was chearing for lost 2-1 :(, and we left 5 min before the game was over because the said that the stadium will be total chaos at the end of the game. Barcelonista, the supporters of the team that lost are complete savages hehhehehhe ( that is what most people say) but i would also call Emelecistas savages. Anyways i had such a great time, yet next time i will buy the tickets that are a little more expensive and watch the game sitting and not standing up.
Apart from that been working , the next month is going to be super busy considering there is a national conference coming up, so im busy prepping for that.
Hmmm What else have i been up 2.. I am currently looking for an apartment in guayaquil, man it s gonna be really interesting trying to find that. A 2 bedroom furnished apartment for 150$, yeah so far it s kindda tough but still searching
Anyways that is all i can think about right now as an update!!!

Random note: In one month i am home!!! Yey i can t wait i am soooo excited!!! I really need this 2 week break!!!

Hope all is well in u re worlds!!!

2 Comments:

At 9:07 AM, Cristina said...

Wow!!!! you finally are writing a new post! jejeje just kidding :D Se que no has de tener mucho tiempo que digamos, por esto esta bien. Bueno, el tema de la religion siempre es un tema un poco polemico, espero que algun dia podamos conversar de eso pero como informacion, porque si nos metemos a defender nuestra propia religion terminariamos peleando (casi casi como hablar de politica o futbol :S )

 
At 8:19 PM, Rolando Cruzado said...

Hi, nice to write you. For different causalities I stopped here. Nice your blocs. Not commercially and interesting for a reading time.

I think god gave us so many religions as fingers to our hands. So I understand your believes. I know what is been far from persons who we love… So much!!!… but is a challenge! This far connection fortifies our internal character for be better persons and conquer our mind, hurts, and spirits…and be happiest with people we loved now and be much more happy in the future. Also, to value more this persons and dreams that we love so much and we follow them with our hurts:)

I wish you a nice year 2007, peace and blessings. When you can send a hug to my hurt :D All the best in your personal challenges!!!

God bless you,
Rolo
Lima, Peru

 

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