One week down!!!

One week complete of Spanish school!!! We are slowly getting bits of the language, and are able to kind of communicate with the hostel staff and restaurant staff!

We know how to ask for certain things like scrambled eggs, and how I like my coffee! We can ask how much something is, and if they have change for a $20 note. However, we can ask questions, but when they speak back to us we have no idea what they say! Well, we are starting to pick up certain words and work out the gist of the sentence. I'm struggling to hear the numbers, when they tell me the price! It's really hard for my brain to adjust to a new number system, after 26 years of English numbers! I normally turn to jac to know how much they say something is!So we haven't been able to do heaps this week because of Spanish lessons from 9 till 1pm, and it's been raining heaps over the last couple of days. However, on Wednesday we took a bus down to "centro historico", which is the old town centre from the colonial days. It was amazing! We thought we'd transported ourselves to Europe! The streets were beautiful, all the buildings had awesome architecture and we got to see some cool churches!
One of these churches, "La Compañia", was breathtaking! Try and google it if you have a chance! The entire inside if the church is covered in gold! The detail in the gold carvings are brilliant, and all the handcrafted wooden confession booths in amazing detail. We weren't allowed to take photos inside the church, so you'll have to rely on google to see it!
Another church that we saw was huge! It is apparently an exact replica of Notre Dame! It was ridiculously big, but seemed boring after seeing the gold church.The people here in Quito are so kind it's not funny! We have had so many instances of people going above and beyond to make us feel welcomed!

In centro historico an old man helped us find the churches. In front of one the churches he started trying to tell us something in Spanish and some broken English. We had no idea what he was on about, but he kept trying to tell us! He then started to point at his member, and then at this statue of a baby! What is this guy on about?! . But then on closer inspection, this statue of a baby had a massive wang stuck onto it!!! There were 4 of these statues, but just one of then had a shlong attached! We were on the floor laughing!!!
And then another guy at our hostel drove us to the market, while telling us all about ecuadorian politics! Ps the markets are so good! We bought 3 big bananas for 25cents! So we'll be in touch, and will write again soon!

Hasta pronto!!