My Visit With Rosa Day 3 (Final Day)

Today was my last day with Rosa. I had to get on a plane and go back home. I woke up early and went outside to see a man walking past on the street, leading a cow that he was taking to market. He stopped to talk to me and I learned that he had raised the cow and was going to sell it that day at the market. Then he would buy another calf to raise and sell and buy food and cloths with what was left over of the money from selling the cow. After that I had breakfast which consisted of some hot chocolate and a croissant (Spanish influence there). After breakfast I wandered down to the market where the man said he would be selling his cow. Rosa couldn't come because she had to work. I had arrived in Ecuador on Friday night and met Rosa on Saturday morning, and now it is Monday so she had to work. As the man had said he was at the market auctioning off his cow. He was speaking very fast in Spanish and I couldn't understand anything that he was saying but after I few minutes I could tell that his cow had been sold to a man in front. After I watched the man sell his cow I started to wander around the market. I smelled someone cooking food. I followed the smell and found a short women cooking some stew and rice. She told me that it was meat stew and that it was good. That was what I had for lunch. It was very good despite the fact that I could not figure out what kind of meat it was. After that I went back to Rosa's house, packed up my bag and got on the bus to go back to the airport in the capital. I was surprised to find Rosa at the bus station to see me off. I was sad to leave because I had only had a few days in Ecuador and felt that I hardly got to see any of it. I got on the bus and rode back to Quito, where the international airport was. When I got to the airport I was surprised. It had been dark when I had flown in, so I hadn't noticed how close the airport was to a mountain. The takeoff was quite scary because we took off and climbed steeply until we were over the mountain. The last of Ecuador I saw was a brilliant sunset over the Andes Mountains.

The airport in Quito