Giant Cookies, Super Computers, and the Apocalypse

This was a really cool weekend. On Friday I met Emily and Gabi at Xplorer and we all went to my house. A while ago I bought a double chocolate chip cookie mix at the Super Maxi that I never got the chance to bake. So Gabi, Emily and I baked the cookies. Only we had a rather small cookie sheet and it was round, so instead of making lots of little cookies we just made one huge cookie. It was super good. I don't know what comes in Betty Crocker mixes in Ecuador but there is definitely something special about them. We cut out three pieces to share with my family (My host mom, Andrea and Andrea's Dad) and then we ate the entire rest of the cookie by ourselves. Straight out of the pan. With a fork. Emily taught us how to play a card game called Golf and so we played cards until about 9:30 at night. Gabi had already established with her host mom that she could sleep over, but when we were done playing cards Emily decided it was too late to go home, so she slept over too. We felt like little girls. We played MASH, which I had never played before and guess what? It has nothing to do with Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in case you were wondering. MASH stands for Mansion, Apartment, Shack, and House and it is a game about your future. I do not remember exactly how my future turned out, but I think it might involve me driving a dump truck and marrying someone  in a pink and orange striped tux. So Friday night Gabi, Emily and I all slept in the same bed. Emily didn't think we could do it without having someone fall off in the middle of the night. But it definitely worked. I slept in the middle, and it was super cold that night, but I was so cozy warm. Normally I sleep with a sweatshirt on, but Friday I had to take it off in the middle of the night. (Don't worry, I had a t-shirt underneath.) 

Saturday morning we went to Emily's house and hung out. Then we went to the Plaza de Los Americas to see a movie. But the movie we wanted to see wasn't playing for another 2 hours. So we wondered around the Plaza, which looks exactly like a California mall. There weren't really any clothing shops, so we were forced to eat ice cream (ok, well not forced exactly) and then while Emily talked to her parents on the phone, Gabi and I sang For Good over an over again. We finally ended up seeing the movie, which turned out way better than we thought it would. We saw Eagle Eye, which is like this really cool spy movie about like evil supercomputers and plots to kill the president. I thought it was suspenseful and had a really interesting political message as well. I won't give too much away because I think you should all go see it (if it is still playing in American theaters). After the movie we ate dinner, like Americans, at a gourmet pizza restaurant. The restaurant was completely empty, because Ecuadorian dinner/almuerzo time is like 3 at the latest and this was about 6:30pm. The pizza was amazing, but Emily and Gabi thought I was really weird for ordering a pizza with sliced tomatoes on top. Apparently they don't eat like italians in Idaho or Missouri. (They both ordered Hawaiian pizza.)

Last night I didn't sleep very well, so I decided to forego church so that I could sleep in. I slept until about 9:15 am, and then got up to eat breakfast. My sister Paola had shown up at some point last night so she, my host mom and I all ate breakfast together. Paola is convinced that Obama is the antichrist, and this morning we had an entire discussion about the apocalypse and what exactly it would entail. (Apparently it will take 7 years, and the antichrist will reign over supposed peace for 3 years. That is all I really understood from the conversation, the rest of it I just smiled and nodded.) Today my entire host family was at home, so we ordered chinese food and had like this huge lunch the 6 of us. The rest of the time I have been reading my book and desperately tying to figure out the 15 physics problems that i have to do for Wednesday. 

I should get back to those...

Chao, 

Zoe