I often wonder how other people live abroad. Maybe that's ironic, but I am fascinated by it. I understand study abroad and now I understand teaching abroad but if you're not doing one of those two things, I don't get it. It got me thinking about if people wonder about how we live abroad. I just want to clarify to anyone that is thinking, 'oh I wish I could do that' that you can! We quit our jobs and came here with about 2 paychecks worth of money. We had arranged jobs ahead of time, which I would recommend. We didn't have a place to live. We didn't have a ton of money. Less than $5,000 for sure, significantly less. And we just committed to living within our means, for the most part. Our parents and grandparents have been very generous whenever we've been in a bind here and for that we'll forever be grateful. But we're not here living off of an inheritance or a free ride or a huge savings. We're just making it work. And if you want to, you can too. You should.
MULUB,
Taylor
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Project Number 2 - Day 18 (Saturday)
Yesterday somehow flew by without a trace. I remember being up, being crabby, leaving the house for a bit and then somehow it was dinner time. Who knows?! What I do know is that I ate A LOT of coffee cake yesterday. Like 1/2 the tray, save the 3 pieces that Ryan ate.
Saturdays are days that I like to bake in the morning. Eat something yummy and sugary. Yesterday was no exception. So I made coffee cake. Toby's 2nd Best Coffee Cake. It's good. Really good. Hence why I ate so much of it. Plus I had coffee.
Then we went for a run and took Chuki to the park. It was around 1:30 when we got home. We cleaned and googled things. Isn't it funny how that's become a hobby. We just checked things out online. Like how much a Land Rover costs; are there plans for a hybrid Rover; what model we would want in our dreams! We talked about living in California and buying a vacation home first, because we don't know where we want to settle. Anyways... There wasn't really lunch to be eaten. We split the left over soup from Gus and the left over chicken breast, back and wing. That was lunch, I suppose, plus coffee cake.
Then we watched The Kids Are All Right. Have you seen it? You should! It was good, really really good. Like maybe moved into my top 10. There are some graphic scenes, so consider this the disclaimer if you can't look past that. For dinner I was inspired by a dish I had seen on KERF for clams and linguine. I cooked some fettucine (apparently they don't sell linguine at Supermaxi). I boiled some green beans for 10 minutes, leaving them crunchy. I cut up two tomatoes, one for Ryan and one for me. Then I heated up the extra tomato sauce I had made for the lasagna. I added a big handful of spinach and a big handful of swiss chard to the sauce. Let them wilt and then added onion chopped onion at the very end after I had turned off the heat. When the pasta was done I added the tinned mussels to the sauce. Into each bowl went noodles, a tomato, green beans and the sauce (with spinach, swiss chard, onion and mussels). It was DELICIOUS! Seriously so good. We both loved it! The perfect pasta dish for spring and summer, not too heavy but still very filling.
Then I got into bed and read some more of The Penguin History of Latin America.
It's actually really interesting now that we've moved out of the colonial days and into nation building.
Today is a beautiful day in Quito. I want to make the most of it. The only thing that we have to do is go to Mascotas and buy the water bottle, pee pads and dog tags for Chuki's American Adventure. Then... who knows!?!
Saturdays are days that I like to bake in the morning. Eat something yummy and sugary. Yesterday was no exception. So I made coffee cake. Toby's 2nd Best Coffee Cake. It's good. Really good. Hence why I ate so much of it. Plus I had coffee.
Then we went for a run and took Chuki to the park. It was around 1:30 when we got home. We cleaned and googled things. Isn't it funny how that's become a hobby. We just checked things out online. Like how much a Land Rover costs; are there plans for a hybrid Rover; what model we would want in our dreams! We talked about living in California and buying a vacation home first, because we don't know where we want to settle. Anyways... There wasn't really lunch to be eaten. We split the left over soup from Gus and the left over chicken breast, back and wing. That was lunch, I suppose, plus coffee cake.
Then we watched The Kids Are All Right. Have you seen it? You should! It was good, really really good. Like maybe moved into my top 10. There are some graphic scenes, so consider this the disclaimer if you can't look past that. For dinner I was inspired by a dish I had seen on KERF for clams and linguine. I cooked some fettucine (apparently they don't sell linguine at Supermaxi). I boiled some green beans for 10 minutes, leaving them crunchy. I cut up two tomatoes, one for Ryan and one for me. Then I heated up the extra tomato sauce I had made for the lasagna. I added a big handful of spinach and a big handful of swiss chard to the sauce. Let them wilt and then added onion chopped onion at the very end after I had turned off the heat. When the pasta was done I added the tinned mussels to the sauce. Into each bowl went noodles, a tomato, green beans and the sauce (with spinach, swiss chard, onion and mussels). It was DELICIOUS! Seriously so good. We both loved it! The perfect pasta dish for spring and summer, not too heavy but still very filling.
Then I got into bed and read some more of The Penguin History of Latin America.
It's actually really interesting now that we've moved out of the colonial days and into nation building.Today is a beautiful day in Quito. I want to make the most of it. The only thing that we have to do is go to Mascotas and buy the water bottle, pee pads and dog tags for Chuki's American Adventure. Then... who knows!?!
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