I was up until midnight preparing my photo gifts and then
hurriedly making a sign to bring to a demonstration planned at City hall by our
combined force of Ecuadorians and Expats.
I left home earlier to make it to my usual Fuji store to get my canvas printing
accomplished. I paid my $22.98 and was
told to return at 2pm.
I walked to City Hall and met with our group and we all entered
at 11am and then our “Brass” went up to try to talk to the Mayor. The main group stayed in the lobby chanting
slogans and the security guards were looking pretty nervous, keeping their
hands on their pistols. An hour later
the Prefect and the lawyer came down and we marched around a couple of blocks
to the Justice building before dispersing. The Mayor had ducked us again. I don’t think that man will ever get another
expat vote. They ended up presenting
their letter to a “Commission” and got written acknowledgement of receipt,
which was their goal today.
Video of our demonstration today at City Hall http://youtu.be/cz1DYeDdFWg
We were then told that the Provincial Governor (surprise,
surprise) did have an audience with President Correa who claimed no knowledge
of our plight but promised to help. Maybe
things are looking up…
One of the head honchos, Peter, got talking to me and it
turns out his folks are from Two Hills ,
Alberta
I was busy taking photographs and somehow got drafted to
supply photos for uploading to Twitter and to the foreign press, like the Miami
Herald.
I had an hour or more to kill before picking up my photo so
I went to san Francisco
Market and picked myself up a gorgeous alpaca hoodie that is so nice and warm
for $20. Then I went to the cashmere
store and picked up a cashmere pullover for another $20. I was just heading into Chicago Pizza as the
heavens opened for about 20 minutes. It
was already drying up as I exited and went back to the Fuji store.
Even though I was early, my projects were completed, and properly, so I
then hopped the #50 home.
I have supplied the required photographs to our Coopera
group so we hope they will help the cause.
I hooked up with my old buddy from Montreal , Jay Shink, on Skype tonight and we
had a crystal-clear connection. It sure
is an awesome way to communicate.
That was today’s excitement.
Cheers, Al
Please see all new photos at http://souvenircuenca.blogspot.com/
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