Late afternoon on our second day in Quito, Ecuador. Ola and the rest of the TW office are sitting in a room drinking beer and talking about encryption.  I do neither. Slightly bored.

So, recap:

Our last days in Chicago were tremendously stressful, full of good byes and small panic attacks. People kept asking how excited I was and the only thing I could say was that I just wanted it to be over. Too much, too much. The very last day, Wednesday , I got up at 4.45am, went to my last driving lesson, at 8am I got in line to do the road test, which  I did around 2 and half hour later (passed with no remarks, woho!) then got back downtown were Ola picked me up with a cab and then off to the airport. 2h flight to Houston, 2 hours wait there and then 8-10(?)h to Quito.  We landed around midnight and got to the hotel around 2am yesterday.

Fun coincident, the hotel’s name was Finlandia and located at the streets Finlandia/Suecia.

And there were balloons! Leslie had fixe so there were balloons and a welcome note!
I felt very welcome and then I fell asleep

Got up and out around 9 yesterday, went to the TW office, got hugs and coffee and then sat down and called my family. Good stuff. Both grandma and my brother were at my parents so I got to tell them that I had got my driving license the day before, which was a big surprise since the didn’t know I had been taking lessons.
After that, me and Ola went to register our visas, then back to the office for a bit before we went to check out an apartment in Batan Bajo. I wasn’t sold at all, it was big, but dark, only small, high up window in which you couldn’t look out, the floor was striped in light and dark wood and the ceiling was low.

Back to the office and I started looking at plusvalia.com for apartments. Then one of the girls at the office, Didi, called some real estate people, which we met up with at 5 and looked at 2 other places we didn’t like. At that point, we had had enough, it was food and bed time.

Today, I stayed at the hotel when Ola left for the office. He came back at 11 and we checked out and moved our stuff to a corporate apartment. Then we went to the office together. Since then I’ve been in front of my laptop, looking at apartments and FB. Ola fixed our phones, so we are now able to call and be called.

Tonight it’s welcome dinner at 8. I’m hungry now. And sleepy. But whatever, I’ll find myself some coffee and I’ll be fine.

Also, I now have beer.