I am definitely in Ecuador

Hello Everyone, greetings from Ecuador. I give you all a kiss on the cheek (the Ecuadorian greeting).
I arrived in Quito a little more than a week ago and I definitely like it here. The people are so nice and friendly and I have already made some friends. Here´s what´s been going on the past week:
My plane arrived in Quito on Aug 30, at around 8:45 local time (which is the same as Chicago time). I went through immigration and customs without any problem. At the airport I met my family and I went with them to their house, which is my house for the next 5 months.
I spent the next couple of days getting to know the city and my family. On tuesday I had a meeting with Xplorer and the rest of the students. (Xplorer is the program here that I am with.) The other students are great. There are 4 others from the U.S. and one from Finaland and one from Switzerland. Right now when we are together the 7 of us talk in broken Spanish and a lot of English, but as our Spanish improves we will talk more in Spanish.
I started school on Monday of this week. I attend Colegio Benalcàzar. Which according to almost anyone you talk to here, is one of the best high schools in the country. I am in the 4th grade (their equivalent to sophomore) and in the IB program. All my classmates have been really nice. The way the school system works the teachers come to you, so no one has a say in their schedule. But I am taking a variety of classes, everything from math, physics, history, chemistry, and philosophy, to literature, drawing, and English. Three other students from Xplorer are at my school, but they are all older than me so they are in the 5th and 6th grades. But we see each other at breaks.
People have been asking me about homwork. I have had some homework so far, but it is only the 3rd day so it hasn´t really been that much. We don´t have the same classes everyday so the homework I do have is not often due the next day.
Obviously I have internet. There is a slight possibility that I might be able to get wireless internet on my laptop, but we haven´t figured it out yet. However I definitely have internet at the house, and internet cafes are plentiful. So definitely email me, I love hearing from everyone back home.
If I haven´t talked about something that you want to know about please leave a comment and I will be sure to cover it in the next post.

I miss everyone so much,
Zoe

P.S This computer spell checks everything in Spanish so I can´t spell check I apologize for my bad spelling and for all future spelling errors.


Correction: In my last post I talked about my family and I was only talking from what I believed was written on the paper I was given. In reality, I live with a single mother and her daughter who is 18 and going to University. The mother also has a 30-year-old daughter who lives downtown becuase it is closer to her job. There is also a 20-something son who is in the "Policia", I haven´t quite figured out if that means he´s like a normal police officer of he´s in the army. Either way, he doesn´t live and Quito and so I haven´t met him yet. I believe he is coming to visit sometime soon.