Spanish Multiplication

All things seem to be multiplying at the moment in the world of Bruce Ecuador volunteering: the number of passengers crammed onto the buses on the journey across the city (good thing I got a padlock for my daysack otherwise it might not be safe in such close crowds); the number of parents wanting their children to join the class (two unfortunately had to be turned away yesterday as there simply isn´t any more room in the classroom); the number of children wanting to play the ´swing me round and round´game at break time... and that´s not to mention the actual multiplication sums I was helping the older children with today!

After class yesterday I caught the bus to Mitad del Mundo to see the monument on the equator line, fifteen miles north of Quito. A strange visitor centre / fake village has been built around it, with a museum inside the monument that doesn´t mention the equator or Charles-Marie de la Condamine (the frenchman who originally determined where the equator line lies, accurate towithin 150 metres of modern GPS measurements) once!

Other than that, Rob is hard at work multiplying the number of Spanish words in his repetoire,the number of cafes we know that do tasty almuerzos (set 3 course lunches in local cafés costing only $1.50) grows daily, and the number of options for onward travel following Ecuador continues to expand!