When we went places in our buses, citizens would wave at us. At first I thought they
were being sarcastic, but I eventually realized they were happy to see tourists in their
city. This happened even in Guayaquil, Ecuador's biggest city.One day we stopped
for lunch (take-out sandwiches we were going to eat on the bus) and the buses parked next to a
school. When the lunch bell rang, the kids came out and were excited to see the tourist buses.
Jane, an elementary teacher, who speaks Spanish andmy room mate Claudia talked to the children and the kids were very delighted by the attention.
The kids were very interested in us and our cameras. One girl (the heavy girl in the picture on the right) insisted I take a picture of her and her friends. After I took their pictures, they gathered around to look at the pictures in the LCD. They were delighted with the results. They were polite yet confident.
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