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Hola a todos! It has been a while since I wrote something, which means I've been busy and I did a lot of stuff. As you can see in the title, my adventure here is over halway. Damn, time is going creepy fast. I already did a lot of crazy and cool stuff since I'm here and I'll still do some nice things. I ended 2014 in style with a trip to the Ecuadorian Coast with my best YFU friends. The place to be was Manta,  After I took the bus solo from Ibarra, at night, I arrived at 5:30 am and after a 10,5 hour ride in Manta, a big city at the coast in the province of Manabi. The first thing that I can say about the costa/coast/kust is that it's really really reaaaally hot.

We really enjoyed being at the beach and thinking about cold Belgim while chilling in 30 degrees! during our stay, we visited the beach of Manta and the waves there were really big, the ocean had a nice temperature and I got quite brown from all the sun; I was really happy! The next days we visited the beaches of Crucita and Canoa. The easy atmosphere, the nice views and some delicious food, we all had it! You don't need that much in life to be happy! Unfortunately we had to go home so on the 30th of Decembe, after 5 magnificent days we took the bus back to our cities. I had to do crazy stuff as I stood alone in the south terminal from Quito for the buses, on my one. For some reason there were like a few million people in that terminal and also, there were no more buses to my city. Anyway, I found a taxi and a bus and after 13 hours of travelling I was back in Ibarra.

Then it was the 31st. Time to celebrate! We went with the family to a BBQ restaurant and at midnight they have the tradition to brn a paper witch or muñeka. After that I went out with Celene to celebrate New year with the guys from my neighbourhood. The rest of the vacation I didn't do a lot anymore. I made spaghetti, Fanny (a good friend that lives in Manta) was a few days in Atuntaqui (a city close to Ibarra) with her family so we met a few times and before we knew, the vacations were over.

School is still the same. It can be quite boring and waking up at 5:45 am every morning is hard. Really hard. During the first week of school I got robbed after school in the park. Luckily they didn't hurt me and just stole an old Nokia phone. It was a reminder that I still have to be carefull every second of the day, cause Ecuador is different then Belgium. It's difficult to see who are good and who are bad people.

Que mas... (those 2 words are typical here. You use them if the conversation is not going really well for example and you want the other person to say just something) I'm still doing athletics and I'm training really good. I don't know if I can do a competition here but I'll try to be in top form when I go back to Belgium.

In one week I will try to buy my Tomorrowland ticket! I'm going to try to go to one of the biggest and best parties in the world. I will have to wake up at 5am to participate with the belgian presale. That will be fun!

Last week we had a retiro espiritual with school. This was a religious 3 day trip to a small town a bit north of Ibarra. It wasn't really my thing but there were some nice experiences. We went for example to a local family to help them and talk with them. We also went to a school to spend some time with 6 year old ecuadorian kids. An hour before we went back to Ibarra one of my classmates decided to destroy one of the windows of the place where we stayed and that was actually really funny.

I had to compensate those quite sad 3 days so on Saturday we went with some YFU friends to Quito to visit the Mitad del Mundo (the equator) and to party! Again, it was really nice!

So, it's almost midnight here so I'm going to sleep. Thanks for reading!
Also, I already prepared my next blogpost and it will be there soon! I'll try to put some pictures on this post tomorrow!

Un abrazo

Feliz año nuevo 2015!!

Een gelukkig nieuwjaar aan alle lezers van mijn blog! Ik wens jullie allemaal een geweldig 2015 met veel liefde en geluk, een goede gezondheid, dat al jullie dromen mogen uitkomen en vele leuke avonturen! Geniet van alles, en voor wie nog geen goede voornemens heeft: volg mijn blog, dat is goed genoeg! Ik had de afgelopen tijd geen tijd om wist je datjes te schrijven dus die gaan we een maandje overslagen. Ik ben net terug van een paar dagen kust: het was fantastisch!

Aan iedereen een goed begin van 2015, binnenkort komt er nog wel eens een iets uitgebreidere blogpost!