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The family was expecting a tourist today. The guest was scheduled stay in the guest house for two weeks! This length of stay is more or less unheard of. When we visited for 5 nights on our first visit in 2010, that was five times as long as most tourists stay. We were all immediately curious about the guest, whom they had been told was a woman who would be doing some volunteer work in the community.

It turned out that pretty much all of that information was incorrect. After lunch, the tourist arrived. His name is Javier, and he is a professor and doctoral student at a University in Quito, and he is writing his thesis on Andean culture. He would be staying Monday through Thursday nights for two weeks, learning about Kichwa traditions.

We introduced ourselves to Javier and explained our relationship with the family. Javier speaks English in addition to Spanish, so we found him to be quite helpful when we needed some translation assistance.

Here we are at dinner with Javier.

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