Macas, Ecuador. The jungle!

Hey! In the east of the country right now. Here they call it "el oriente". If you look up a map you will see that I am as close to the Amazon as I am going to get. I am here with my cousin Fernando. He has business out here (computer sales or something) and wanted me to come with to get to know the area.

El Oriente was always a forbidden part of the country, especially for me. My mother would always talk about it in terms of inhostipitable heat and unfriendly cannibals. In reality the heat is quite nice and no canniabls to be found, at least no out of the closet cannibals.

Fernando seems to have many friends out here and many of the female persuasion, and what is better is that he is married and I am not!! All mine, mine mine mine. Gimmie gimmie gimmie!! (do you like my daffy duck? I think it´s quite good).

Best compliment so far: ¨You are North American? That´s just a pick up line, you´re lying. You speak like a Cuencano¨

I also found out a couple of days ago that my generation is the 5th of Italian decent and therefore able to establish residency in Italia. I believe if you are there 5 years they give you a passport, which at this point would be an EU passport. Some members of the family Celleri are trying to recover old perhaps lost documents that state that some great great grandfather or mother was born in Italia and where and bada bing, I can be a guido. Rest assured I will not start listening to bad disco or get an IROC (do they make those anymore?). If anyone has a problem with that I´ll shove a bottle down your friggin throat capise??

Ciao