A week both exciting and at times unpleasant

[quitosarah_08]

Last week an exciting thing happened - Colombia played Ecuador in Quito! Wait, that isn’t the exciting part. You see, due to the possible obstruction of traffic and rowdy sports fans roaming the streets of Quito, UNDP (that is the UN Development Program) sent all non-essential personnel home at 3:00 p.m. to avoid “security problems”. Basically the

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[juniper_rhea]

OMG! Definitely pepper spray, and maybe some self-defense class or martial arts? I'm glad you're O.K.! It doesn't sound like they had TOO evil of intentions if they were scared off so easily...

[quitosarah_08]

Yeah, now that its been a whole week since it happened it doesn't feel so traumatic anymore. They probably didn't even have a knife. Still, I've been taking more taxis than buses this week.