I left Ecuador and my scheduled flight was to New York, but I had connection in Miami first. They have these new machines similar to an ATM machine where every traveler entering the US will go enter his/her own information. The machine takes the picture of the visitor to the US along with […]
One of the beauties of the Latin American culture is the simplicity of its people. Recently, I was on the bus in Ecuador and as usual there was a vendor who got on the bus to sell something. He was telling people you don’t have to buy and don’t stress over things, life […]
I recently spent a week visiting the North West coast of Ecuador. It was a very beautiful visit and at the same time I got to learn more about Ecuador. Just like many other countries around the world there’s a big gap between the rich and the poor, the big cities tend to […]
One of the many things I like about the Latin Culture is the emphasis on living life and enjoy it. Many countries have different slogans or motto, in Ecuador it’s “Ama la vida” which means “love life”, I remember in Costa Rica it was “Pura Vida” which’s “pure life or live life or […]
The other day I visited a little island called Jambeli, it’s located in the South west part of Ecuador. To get to this island, I took a boat and right away I noticed everyone on the boat was laughing, thanks to a middle aged man. He knew many people who work on […]
I took the bus at night from Toronto to go to New York because I had a flight from JFK airport. It was cold around -15 degrees and was expected to snow about 10 centimeters. By the time we crossed the borders there was 10 centimeters of snow, I was very lucky […]
Mexico City is huge, and has so many things to see. It takes a week or more to get to see the city and you won’t be able to see everything, for instance the city has more than 50 museums it may take a month to go visit each one of them.
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I took the bus at 11 at night from Cuenca to go to Guayaquil which has international flights. It was about 4 hours and I slept most of it, when we arrived at the terminal in Guayaquil, I guess I wasn’t fully awake but I couldn’t recognize the bus station although I’ve […]
My visa is about to expire and in the next couple of days I will have to leave Ecuador, I am not ready yet to go back to Canada, so I decided I am going to Mexico for a while. Why Mexico? I was thinking where to go and thought going north […]
I started teaching English back in February, it’s a nice experience working with young kids who were really fun and like to participate. I had many different activities, one time I had them prepare songs in English, most of the girls had chosen songs by Justin Bieber. I know that Justin Bieber […]
