This allows me to make the most of what this country has to offer. I set up my mornings as I like. I wake when the birds start to sing and take advantage of the early hour to meditate. Then the day begins. Some might find it boring to walk in the same space every day, but I love watching the day-to-day progress of the fruit trees and flowers I pass each morning.
Maybe not 50 varieties like in U. Even my favorite former splurges during trips home—like blueberries and cherries—are now available, albeit sometimes seasonally, while the variety and low cost of local fruits and vegetables, some well-known and others exotic, make a healthy diet not only possible but affordable. I dedicate my mornings to work, whether at home on the laptop or out and about at meetings. I make time to mix my corporate communications work with music practice and, my current priority, my work as a social entrepreneur using art, technology, and community-based support to reduce gender-based violence.
Lunchtime in Ecuador is a different affair from what I grew up with. As a kid, it was peanut butter and jelly or a tuna fish sandwich.
I could have those things here, too… although now it would be homemade jelly made from apricots, blackberries, or sour cherries grown on my own trees. When I was a graduate student, I was part of an international student body. All of us Americans ate the normal mainstay foods for lunch—a sandwich, a salad, a piece of pizza—saving our appetite for dinner. I used to wonder how my fellow international students could eat big meals at lunchtime, as I watched them down soup, meat, rice, salad, and juice.
The big meal is at lunchtime. It helps keep weight down. Now when I go back to the States on vacation, a simple sandwich is no longer enough for lunch. What could be better than a cafecito a little coffee with friends at the end of the work day? On a Thursday or Friday, the cafecito might turn into a beer at one of the growing number of craft beer pubs or dinner at eateries ranging from burger joints to upscale Asian fusion restaurants.
The city offers many culinary options. In fact, having seen the growth in food variety and quality, including the renaissance in rescuing local food ingredients and traditions, I would say that Quito is on its way to becoming a food destination. She advises that people interested in moving to Quito visit, do their homework, know that they will be taken advantage of and walk around their desired neighborhood to find an apartment.
It's not as warm as I thought it would be in Ecuador, actually it is quite mild on the coast and chilly in the highland towns of Quito and Cuenca. The locals like foreigners and greet them warmly. Culture shock is part of the settling in process. Knowing the different phases of culture shock and how other expats in Quito handle it can be very comforting.
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