{"id":333,"date":"2004-05-27T22:01:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-27T22:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mercurystate.wordpress.com\/2004\/05\/27\/sur-real\/"},"modified":"2008-09-16T00:23:40","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T04:23:40","slug":"sur-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seekingsol.com\/sur-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Sur-Real"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/seekingsol\/2861826686\/');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/seekingsol\/2861826686\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3106\/2861826686_298f1c13ee.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So I\u00b4ve been offered (didn&#8217;t even have to ask!)a job working at this charming little candle-lit &#8220;Cafecita&#8221; in new town Quito that\u00b4ll provide meals, discounted accommodation, a *meager* salary, tips, and all the Spanish I can sputter. AND there are three salsa discoteques within a 3 block radius of the place! Took a salsa lesson too ($5 for a private lesson!) and made some new dance partner friends. I\u00b4ve also found a lodge in the Eastern cloud forest that will provide room and board in exchange for helping with reception and maintenance. AND I found a volunteer opportunity helping re-integrate animals that have been captured by poachers (who were then in turn captured by the police). This country is absolutely dripping in opportunities!<\/p>\n<p>Quito is nothing like I expected it to be. It\u00b4s just so clean, so pretty, so modern, so easy! Perhaps it\u00b4s just the &#8220;after-India&#8221; effect? I\u00b4m not sure. But I\u00b4m digging the Ecuadorian estilo. And I have a feeling that I&#8217;m going be here for&#8230;.um&#8230;.&#8221;un rato.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>*And, yes! The Spanglish blogs are back!*<\/p>\n<p>But FIRST things first, I\u00b4m in no hurry. In fact, I gotta re-learn how to slow down and find a mas tranquilo groove. So I\u00b4m going to the beach &#8212; to a little surf villiage called, Montanita. I&#8217;m desperately in need of my Pacific sunset fix.<\/p>\n<p>Pues vamos!<\/p>\n<p>(So this is what happens when you surrender your future?)<\/p>\n<p>(<a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/public.fotki.com\/solbeam\/photogalleries\/');\"  href=\"http:\/\/public.fotki.com\/solbeam\/photogalleries\/\" target=\"new\">sol&#8217;s travel photos<\/a>) (<a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/journals.fotki.com\/solbeam\/');\"  href=\"http:\/\/journals.fotki.com\/solbeam\/\" target=\"new\">about sol<\/a>) (<a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.worldsurface.com\/browse\/entry-list.asp?mode=login&amp;loginid=2704&amp;entrytype=1');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.worldsurface.com\/browse\/entry-list.asp?mode=login&amp;loginid=2704&amp;entrytype=1\" target=\"new\">some sol stories<\/a>) (<a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.leapnow.org');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.leapnow.org\" target=\"new\">LeapNow.org<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I\u00b4ve been offered (didn&#8217;t even have to ask!)a job working at this charming little candle-lit &#8220;Cafecita&#8221; in new town Quito that\u00b4ll provide meals, discounted accommodation, a *meager* salary, tips, and all the Spanish I&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/seekingsol.com\/sur-real\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,79],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sur-Real - Christina Rivera<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/seekingsol.com\/sur-real\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sur-Real - Christina Rivera\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"So I\u00b4ve been offered (didn&#8217;t even have to ask!)a job working at this charming little candle-lit &#8220;Cafecita&#8221; in new town Quito that\u00b4ll provide meals, discounted accommodation, a *meager* salary, tips, and all the Spanish I... 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