Mountain Views & A Meeting

The two pictures on this blog posting are taken about a half block from our apartment. We have been here about seven weeks and today is the third time we have seen these mountains covered with snow. All the other days these high mountains are covered with fog and or clouds. We have mentioned before the strange feeling of being in a tropical environment and looking at snow in the far distance.
There is another distant mountain which can be seen on rare occasions from school. One of the teachers was telling me today that it was a spectacular site when the volcano erupted at the top some time in the last year. Maybe we will be treated to such a site sometime this year.


Tomorrow (Friday) is a holiday. In the history of Ecuador, parts of the country were liberated at different times. The advantage of that now falls to us. The year is scattered with holidays remembering these liberations.

Although we are not in school, we have one of the most important meetings scheduled since we have been here. We are meeting with the senior pastor who really calls the shots regarding school operation. The problem is that there is not a single written policy covering school operations. There comes a time when you can not run a school off the back of an envelope. That time has come. Problem is there is no one who knows anything about policy writing. The school director, an English teacher and the assistant director will meet with the senior pastor and us tomorrow morning. This session ends at the pastor's house for lunch. This session will require diplomacy and supportive suggestions. More about the outcome of this later.