Thoughts are woven together in interesting patterns. Perhaps this string of journal clippings will give you a snapshot of the passing of time in Ecuador, and even a sense of that tentative undying hope we Global Citizen Fellows seemed to be imbued with:
Sunday 16th October:
Hello again. It’s late at night and I wanted to say hello. An honest hello.
Monday 10th October:
Wow. Que día! Estaba muy interesante, muy largo y hay muchas cosasque decirte, pero por lo más quiero ser sincera. (What a day! It was very interesting, very long, and there are lots of things to tell you, but overall I want to be honest.)
Saturday 24th September:
It will be interesting going back for two weeks to Quito, but I got my head around the idea after all. I would say two weeks isn’t very long but that’s how long I spent in Quito already and it seemed quite a while.
Sunday 16th October:
It was a very quiet and unexpected weekend. Just like those second two weeks in Quito that seemed to go so much faster.
Sunday 16th October:
I’m tired. I wanted to say that a lot of the thoughts I was having seemed to be devolving and I don’t know what to say. You know what’s up.
Monday 10th October:
No se qué pensar, o extrañar, por que “all the promises got broken on the way” (Sting: Never Coming Home).
(I don’t know what to think, or miss, for “all the promises got broken on the way” (Sting: Never Coming Home).
Sunday 16th October:
It’s good to live for other people but mostly I know to do it by living for you.
Friday 14th October:
All this time I’ve been here in Ecuador, weeks, it hasn’t been for me, even my rest, my everything has been to give to this experience. “The Experience.” I guess I need time for myself, just to chill, settle down, and chill. To know for ME what is this about.
Monday 10th October:
Estoy mal por unos momentos con mis compañeros, pero rezo a ser mi misma, natural. (I’m wrong in some of the moments with my fellows, but I pray to be myself, natural.)
Wednesday 5th October:
Thanks for the talks with my Fellows. Thank you for all the time and energy each of them give me despite my stupid oddities.
Thursday 13th October:
Estoy perdiendo paciencia para estar contenta sin capacidad para expresar en el idioma. Pero a veces no hay nada a hacer, solamente puedo aceptar. (I’m losing the patience to be content without the capacity to express in the language. But sometimes there is nothing to do but accept.)
Sunday 16th October:
Thanks for my family and the things they say.
Wednesday 5th October:
Please don’t let anything go wrong.
