Date: April 25,2007
Time: 5:39 pm
Place: My House IM BACK!!!!
Well I'm back and I'm sick. I had to get sick. The day that I left Ecuador I had to get the cold. But this is not just any cold. This is the king of all cold. As I write this blog I can say that my eyes are red like tomatoes and my nose is running the NYC Marathon. I just need to figure out a way to get better tomorrow or I won't be able to go to work. I need to work so bad or I won't be alble to pay off the crazy T-mobile bill that I got recently. Me and my dad got a family plan so we thought we will be able to save a little money. Turns out that I have to pay 950 dollars by the end of this month. As of this moment I hate T-mobile. T-mobile can kiss my hispanic ass! Well I gotta calm down because if my professor reads this blog she is going to kill me. Well anyways tomorrow hopefully I will be able to write something much more interesting and much more insightful. Take care
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Monday, April 23, 2007
Juan Gavilanes The Saga Begins
Date: April 23,2007
Time: 9:25 am Ecuadorian Time
Place : Cochancay, Ecuador
Today is my last day in this country and I´m happy that I´m going back to New York. However I know that my boss days are over and I have to go back to reality and work and go to school. I know I have to strive to become better and try new innovative ways to better my life. I feel sad that I´m leaving but I know I can´t make the money I make in New York. Even though living in this country is so peaceful and quiet and at the same very very delightful to be in I know that money matters at this moment. Money is what is going to make my life in a way much more easier. I will be able to have everything I need and when I get old I will be able to retire peacefully in my own home. Well tommorow you will be seeing me in my apartment arguing with my sis over some stupid thing and my brother over something that occured to hime at work and my mom who always wants me to do my chores. Later and god speed.
Time: 9:25 am Ecuadorian Time
Place : Cochancay, Ecuador
Today is my last day in this country and I´m happy that I´m going back to New York. However I know that my boss days are over and I have to go back to reality and work and go to school. I know I have to strive to become better and try new innovative ways to better my life. I feel sad that I´m leaving but I know I can´t make the money I make in New York. Even though living in this country is so peaceful and quiet and at the same very very delightful to be in I know that money matters at this moment. Money is what is going to make my life in a way much more easier. I will be able to have everything I need and when I get old I will be able to retire peacefully in my own home. Well tommorow you will be seeing me in my apartment arguing with my sis over some stupid thing and my brother over something that occured to hime at work and my mom who always wants me to do my chores. Later and god speed.
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Juan Gavilanes The saga Begins
Date: April 21,2007
Time: 4:34 pm Ecuadorian Time
Place: La Troncal, Ecuador
Ok for this has to by far the worst day of my life. I had too overcome many obstacles to prove who I am to this wonderful woman who is the love of my life. I decided to do something really special however very painful .I decided to scar myself and show how much I truly mean to her. She was flattered of course but she did something afterwards that made me think of the thing I just did. Unfortunately she right next to me and I can´t write that information but for my fans out there I will tell you exactly what happened tommorow morning. Tkae care and have a wonderful evening.
Time: 4:34 pm Ecuadorian Time
Place: La Troncal, Ecuador
Ok for this has to by far the worst day of my life. I had too overcome many obstacles to prove who I am to this wonderful woman who is the love of my life. I decided to do something really special however very painful .I decided to scar myself and show how much I truly mean to her. She was flattered of course but she did something afterwards that made me think of the thing I just did. Unfortunately she right next to me and I can´t write that information but for my fans out there I will tell you exactly what happened tommorow morning. Tkae care and have a wonderful evening.
Friday, April 20, 2007
Juan Gavilanes The Saga Begins
Date: April 20,2006
Time: 12:06 pm Ecuadorian Time
Place: Cochancay, Ecuador
Well it´s nearing the day that I have to leave and I´m not very satisfied with the overall progress of my house. It looks like I have to speak with my contractor and decide on what to do next. The best alternative for me at this moment is to create a contract and set a specific deadline to finish the construction. I believe this to be less costly and more efficient and I wont have to be worried about sending money every week. I´m on my way at this moment to buy the remaining sacks of cement . Till tommorow.
Time: 12:06 pm Ecuadorian Time
Place: Cochancay, Ecuador
Well it´s nearing the day that I have to leave and I´m not very satisfied with the overall progress of my house. It looks like I have to speak with my contractor and decide on what to do next. The best alternative for me at this moment is to create a contract and set a specific deadline to finish the construction. I believe this to be less costly and more efficient and I wont have to be worried about sending money every week. I´m on my way at this moment to buy the remaining sacks of cement . Till tommorow.
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Juan Gavilanes The Saga Begins
Date: April 18,2007
Time: 3:20 pm Ecuadorian Time
Place: Cochancay, Ecuador
Many things have occured to me lately in the past couple of days. I am currently thinking whether or not if I should get married. It´s been difiicult for me to make this decision because even though I love the person I am with my family however don´t want me to be with her. Her name is Fanny. To me she is the most beautiful person and at the same time my worst nightmare. Seems crazy but I can´t leave her when she makes me so mad. We break up for a couple of days but always seem to get back together. Just remebering the day I met her makes me feel so good inside. We met seven years ago whena cousin of my dad introduced me to her. At that time she was 15 and was having her sweet 15th birthday party. She needed a ¨Chabelan¨which means like a male companion for her party. She chose me and we got to know each other. She was annoying and a little brat at times but inside she was sweet and funny. We have a way of talking to each other that nobody understand but her and me. We have a way of just being together without saying one word. For me she is just perfect. I can´t imagine being with someone else and I love her. I love her with all my heart and I hope god always guides her through the right path and always takes care of her.So tell me fellow worshipers what should I do? Should I get married?
Time: 3:20 pm Ecuadorian Time
Place: Cochancay, Ecuador
Many things have occured to me lately in the past couple of days. I am currently thinking whether or not if I should get married. It´s been difiicult for me to make this decision because even though I love the person I am with my family however don´t want me to be with her. Her name is Fanny. To me she is the most beautiful person and at the same time my worst nightmare. Seems crazy but I can´t leave her when she makes me so mad. We break up for a couple of days but always seem to get back together. Just remebering the day I met her makes me feel so good inside. We met seven years ago whena cousin of my dad introduced me to her. At that time she was 15 and was having her sweet 15th birthday party. She needed a ¨Chabelan¨which means like a male companion for her party. She chose me and we got to know each other. She was annoying and a little brat at times but inside she was sweet and funny. We have a way of talking to each other that nobody understand but her and me. We have a way of just being together without saying one word. For me she is just perfect. I can´t imagine being with someone else and I love her. I love her with all my heart and I hope god always guides her through the right path and always takes care of her.So tell me fellow worshipers what should I do? Should I get married?
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Juan Gavilanes The Saga Begins
Date: April 17,2007
Time: 10:51 am Ecuadorian Time
Place: Cochancay, Ecuador
I´m here still waiting for some material to come in so I an close the construction of my house until next summer. I desperate to get things done as quickly as possible however things are not occuring that way. Also unfortunately my girlfriend had stones in her kidney for the past four days and I´m worried about her condition. All these barriers are making my life very difficult and very frustrating. In about fifteen to twenty minutes I have to make a four hour trip to cuenca ecuador to see if my order went through with te material because it´s taking longer than expected.
Time: 10:51 am Ecuadorian Time
Place: Cochancay, Ecuador
I´m here still waiting for some material to come in so I an close the construction of my house until next summer. I desperate to get things done as quickly as possible however things are not occuring that way. Also unfortunately my girlfriend had stones in her kidney for the past four days and I´m worried about her condition. All these barriers are making my life very difficult and very frustrating. In about fifteen to twenty minutes I have to make a four hour trip to cuenca ecuador to see if my order went through with te material because it´s taking longer than expected.
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Juan Gavilanes The Saga Begins
Date: Sunday, April 13,2007
Time: 2:59 pm
Place: Cochancay , Ecuador
Let me start off by saying how hot it is in this place. Just imagine a constant 89 degrees all day long for an entire week. The warmth is nice but too much is just a pain. I am currently still under process of finishing the construction of my house. Since the day I showed the class the pictures of how the house looked at the moment you cant tell it looked almost done however there was much left to be done on the inside. At this moment I have to wait for my primary contractor on a estimate of how much material that needs to be bought by the end of the week. I leave saying tht I am in alot of frustration and with little money. PLEASE HELP ME !!!!!!
Time: 2:59 pm
Place: Cochancay , Ecuador
Let me start off by saying how hot it is in this place. Just imagine a constant 89 degrees all day long for an entire week. The warmth is nice but too much is just a pain. I am currently still under process of finishing the construction of my house. Since the day I showed the class the pictures of how the house looked at the moment you cant tell it looked almost done however there was much left to be done on the inside. At this moment I have to wait for my primary contractor on a estimate of how much material that needs to be bought by the end of the week. I leave saying tht I am in alot of frustration and with little money. PLEASE HELP ME !!!!!!
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Juan Gavilanes The Saga Begins
Date : April 12, 2007
Time: 8:58 pm Ecuadorian Time
Place: Cochancay, Ecuador
I apologize to all my fans who read my blogs that I wasn´t able to come up with anything new for the past couple of days. Let´s get started with what I had to go through with these days. First off lets start with arriving to the airport. When I arrived at the airport I thought that I would get home soon so I can go to sleep right?.... wrong. I spent most of my day dealing with Ecuador custom agents. It was a painstaking 4 hours where I had to speak with them and tell them the purpose of my trip. Unfortunately in order for them to release me and leave me alone I ha to bribe them. Ecuafor is a wonderful place but the only bad thing it has is lot of corruption. Instead of letting me go they decided beacuase I was ecuadorian american they could get some money of me. I know if I let them get away with it it would be wrong but I knew if I kept arguing with them that I would spend all day so I just decided to go with it.I spotted the officer 40 dollars and he let me go. The next step was to go to sleep as soon as possible so I can wake up early tommorow morning to get ready for work on my house. And so I did.
When I arrived to the construction site I realized there had to be much work to be done.I knew I needed to buy material for the house and that what I did. I got in my pickup and made a 20 minute trip to LA TRONCAL which is a small town south of Cochancay. I arrived and to my dismay I realized I didn´t carry that much money on me so I decided to call my dad to help me with some of the payments I had to make. He fortunately was able to help me pay half of the expenses. As I got the site I noticed that my house was yet done to my stisfaction and still needed alot of work. So I decided to gather every worker I had for a small meeting and tell them exactly what I wanted to see for the next 15 days I was going to be here.They soon left what they were doing and approached me. I spoke with them and told me the specific time period my needs were going to be reached. I then spoke about payroll and how I was going to pay them.Considering I was really tight on money I told them they would have to wait till the end of the month for their salary. They didn´t like that very muvh but oh well thats life.Either was I knew I had to be rigid and aggresive with my workers or else nothing would be done .
Time: 8:58 pm Ecuadorian Time
Place: Cochancay, Ecuador
I apologize to all my fans who read my blogs that I wasn´t able to come up with anything new for the past couple of days. Let´s get started with what I had to go through with these days. First off lets start with arriving to the airport. When I arrived at the airport I thought that I would get home soon so I can go to sleep right?.... wrong. I spent most of my day dealing with Ecuador custom agents. It was a painstaking 4 hours where I had to speak with them and tell them the purpose of my trip. Unfortunately in order for them to release me and leave me alone I ha to bribe them. Ecuafor is a wonderful place but the only bad thing it has is lot of corruption. Instead of letting me go they decided beacuase I was ecuadorian american they could get some money of me. I know if I let them get away with it it would be wrong but I knew if I kept arguing with them that I would spend all day so I just decided to go with it.I spotted the officer 40 dollars and he let me go. The next step was to go to sleep as soon as possible so I can wake up early tommorow morning to get ready for work on my house. And so I did.
When I arrived to the construction site I realized there had to be much work to be done.I knew I needed to buy material for the house and that what I did. I got in my pickup and made a 20 minute trip to LA TRONCAL which is a small town south of Cochancay. I arrived and to my dismay I realized I didn´t carry that much money on me so I decided to call my dad to help me with some of the payments I had to make. He fortunately was able to help me pay half of the expenses. As I got the site I noticed that my house was yet done to my stisfaction and still needed alot of work. So I decided to gather every worker I had for a small meeting and tell them exactly what I wanted to see for the next 15 days I was going to be here.They soon left what they were doing and approached me. I spoke with them and told me the specific time period my needs were going to be reached. I then spoke about payroll and how I was going to pay them.Considering I was really tight on money I told them they would have to wait till the end of the month for their salary. They didn´t like that very muvh but oh well thats life.Either was I knew I had to be rigid and aggresive with my workers or else nothing would be done .
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Juan Gavilanes The Saga Begins
Date: Tuesday April 2, 2007
Time: 1:00 pm
Place: My truck
I know I haven't been able to write for the past week but let me explain why. For one thing my stupid truck blew a radiator hose while going down the Goethals Bridge about 3 days ago. At that point I'm supposed to stop my truck immediately and call for a tow truck to send it to the shop to get that fixed because that is a really dangerous situation. However I took my chances and drove the rest of the way with radiator fluid leaking out the hose. My Engine temperature rose as I drove and I was scared that my engine would stall and I would lose my brakes. Fortunately for me that wasn't the case. I spent over this weekend about 400 dollars to get it fixed. I was really bummed out because till this day I've been doing nothing but work work work just to compensate for what I lost for that day. That is reason one why I couldn't daily write my blogs here comes now the big reason why I couldn't write blogs.
The second reason is turns out that I need to send out a large sum of money to fix a financial situation I have in my country. I'm really frustrated because I spoke with my financial partner on my construction of the house I'm building and he told me I wouldn't have to pay until next month. Now I have until next week to come up with that sum of money or the deadline to the construction of my house will go on until December and I need it to be done by this summer. I don't know what to do. I have school and If I leave school I can manage passing all my courses but It will be much more difficult for me and also my job. Each day that I'm not out working I lose a lot of money. So I'm in the clutch of just tearing out my hair. Somebody please help me!!!!
Time: 1:00 pm
Place: My truck
I know I haven't been able to write for the past week but let me explain why. For one thing my stupid truck blew a radiator hose while going down the Goethals Bridge about 3 days ago. At that point I'm supposed to stop my truck immediately and call for a tow truck to send it to the shop to get that fixed because that is a really dangerous situation. However I took my chances and drove the rest of the way with radiator fluid leaking out the hose. My Engine temperature rose as I drove and I was scared that my engine would stall and I would lose my brakes. Fortunately for me that wasn't the case. I spent over this weekend about 400 dollars to get it fixed. I was really bummed out because till this day I've been doing nothing but work work work just to compensate for what I lost for that day. That is reason one why I couldn't daily write my blogs here comes now the big reason why I couldn't write blogs.
The second reason is turns out that I need to send out a large sum of money to fix a financial situation I have in my country. I'm really frustrated because I spoke with my financial partner on my construction of the house I'm building and he told me I wouldn't have to pay until next month. Now I have until next week to come up with that sum of money or the deadline to the construction of my house will go on until December and I need it to be done by this summer. I don't know what to do. I have school and If I leave school I can manage passing all my courses but It will be much more difficult for me and also my job. Each day that I'm not out working I lose a lot of money. So I'm in the clutch of just tearing out my hair. Somebody please help me!!!!
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