Post weekend update

Its Monday afternoon and I´m about to start my second week of Spanish class.
The weekend was pretty decent. On Friday I just hung out with Gabriel, the only other chico in the house that I live in. We just went to eat and then had a beer back at the house.
On Saturday afternoon/night I had some miscommunication with friends and we were not able to meet up. I was supposed to call them to confirm our get together but I didn´t realize that so they never came into town. I didn´t know where my other friends were so I decided to go "downtown" solo and check it out. I was just goint to walk around for an hour or so then head home. Instead, I ended up seeing some friends of friends who were headed to a concert. One of the guys is in a different band so he knows a lot of people and was able to get me to the front of the line without much of a problem. There were 2 bands playing. The first one was some sort of Rasta band from Colombia. They were pretty good and threw in some cover songs by Bob Marley during the show. The second band is supposedly pretty famous in the underground rock scene here in Ecuador. It was really fast and reminded me of 311 in some ways. They finished about 2AM and we were about to leave when a DJ stepped up and started spinning some drum and bass. It was pretty good and I got some good excercise between 2AM and 4AM dancing. After that I wandered around the street with some people and then caught a taxi back home.

On Sunday I met up with I girl I met on couchsurfing.com and we had lunch. The other purpose of our meetup was to discuss a potential adventure next week. She is big into mountain biking and had told me earlier that she could get one of her friends to loan me a nice mountain bike for a few days and we could ride to another town called Mindo. Its supposed to be very unique because its right on the fringe of mulitple different ecosystems (mountains, jungle and costal I think). I think the ride is about 100km but a lot of it is downhill since we are on top of a mountain right now so I should be fine. The plan is to leave here next Sunday or Monday. Ill update on the status of that later.

Tomorrow for dinner I´m supposed to meet up with some dude who just motorcycled around South America with his girlfriend. I´m sure he will have some really intersting stories.

Later,
Andy