Day 8

 It's interesting to think about that the State of Emergency has already been for a week by now. The mood has changed and shifted a lot: people around me became calmer, and although most foreign teachers at our school are still a bit shocked, things are slowly back to normal. 

Keep your fingers crossed that we could return to the schools from Thursdays on. 

My eyes aren't that sore anymore - I can keep up working in front of the computer for even 1O hours (8 teaching hours today, + 2 training hours). Life is back to normal, just my little grumpiness, and things I'm thinking about. Food and such. When to go for shopping. Need to get some eggs. Running out of oil. 

Interestingly, our gas, which we bought like 4-5 months ago, still holds on... But, that's ok. Our oven is powered by electricity, and even the hot water is not connected to the gas tank, so I hope it still has some weeks in it. (My biggest fear is that I'm cold or super hungry, and I need to cook something in the middle of the night and we've run out of gas. But nvm, we have an oven now, maybe I could bake a midnight cake if this were the case.) 

Even though things are calming down, there are two thoughts stirring in me: 

- why so fast? I always imagined that conflicts in Latin America last longer. And these already give way to some conspiracy theories... (if you check reddit, on a daily basis, like me, you'll read some of them, but I would not recommend to dwell too much on them.) 

- why could I hear so many helicopters / and sirens today? Where were they going? Is there something happening in Loja? (I hope not.)

Your reading for the day: 

https://www.reddit.com/r/ecuador/comments/197xl9u/summary_relevant_events_context_january_15_2024/

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