Quito, Ecuador

After I arrived into Quito Ecuadori made my way to the hostel which is in this part of town thats called the old town and is pretty wild with cobblestone streets and old colonial buildings. Oncw i got to the hostel i met a lot of cool people and it turns out that a girl from Australia named Amanda is doing the exact same volunteer thing in the Amazon and is heading there the same time as me so we chatted and quickly became friends. The next morning i forgot to tell the hostel that i was going to be staying another night and it turned out that they were completely booked and i was forced to leave and find another hostel. This exact same situation also faced Amanda and another pretty cool girl from England named Laura. Fortunatley we found a hostel only down the street and checked into there, this hostel we checked into in my opinion is actually really nice we have a private room with our own bathroom and shower and even a tv, and were paying a whopping $5 a night each. The only catch is that it is like completely deserted but we just hang out at the other hostel where all our other friends are and eat the food there and then sleep down the street in a nice quiet private dorm, it´s a pretty nice situation.

Amanda, Laura and myself spent the day in the new part of town which is like their downtown area and did some shopping and got some food, Amada and I made the decision to travel towards the Amazon on friday instead of thursday because it turns out that there is a misfits concert thursday night in Quito so we´re pretty stoked about that. After spending the day wandering around we made our way back to not our hostel but the original hostel we were at because thats where everyone hangs out to chill, we met up with a bunch of other people at the hostel and headed out for a night of clubbing in downtown Quito. We went to this club which had this event which was called girls night in which all girls get in for free and have free drinks before 10pm. It was kinda weird because we got there at about 930 and the club was just packed fully with girls and they did not let guys in until 10. So me and another guy i met from the states wondered around this strip in downtown Quito which was just jam packed with club after club, we found this cool little club that was in the basement of a building and was mostly packed with locals, so we hung there for a bit before making our way back to the original club we were planning on going to. At first it was kinda slow but by the time a few hours have passed the entire club was sooooo jam packed with people you could barely move and it was just a huge party. Altogether it was a pretty fun night.

As for today theres tons of stuff i have planned like visiting this super old cathedral which towers over Quito. Now I´m not the kinda cathedral or museam fan but the cool thing about this one is that you are allowed to climb to the very top on these gothic towers and up through all the clocks and bells and gizzards just like Quazzy modo. Once you reach the top which is hundreds of feet high you can go outside and stand on the edge of the building where there are no guard rails or anything, and you are faced with stunning views over Quito. After i check that out, me and a bunch of people from the hostel are gonna check out that misfits concert downtown, and then tommorow me and Amanda head for the Amazon.