Mira

sunday my host mom, uncle, cousin, and sister we all went to mira, whichis a pueblito of 5000 people about 45 minutes north of ibarra. its wheremy host mom grew up. we went to her childhood house to meet hergrandparents (i had previously met the grandma) and then we went to out tothe grandpa´s field to pick fruit. the field was beautiful, i´m goign toreturn and take photos. like u can look up and just see tpons of the andes,and the field is just on this mountainside. they kept on referring to itbefore we were going as "la tierra", (quieres ir a mi tierra), which is acool way of referring to it. but anyway, we went and got tons of avocados(the way u do this is climb up high in the tree, and shake a main branchwildly and all the avocados fall down), got a lot of limes and lemons(alhtough lemon trees are prickly, but not too bad), then we pickedoranges, taxo, naranjilla, ubijilla, guabaco (the latter four are randomtropical citrusy fruits that are good). we picked three huge sacs full.then we went back to the grandparents place for coffee and bread. then my host cousin (she´s 18 or 19) and sister went walking around mira. got tosee the sights becuase my host siter grew up here untill the family movedto ibarra when she was 10. it was a really cool small town, and verysmall, in the fact that on almost every block we passed by one of their cousin´s house.