UNA FIESTA DE FAMILIA
Bahia de Caraquez, Ecuador, 20 November 2008








Kathleen and I were invited to a family birthday celebration for Consuelo. In her roomy flat in downtown Bahia, many of her teaching colleagues were assembled with Kathleen, Julio (SV Pancho, out of Chile) and me, as the token foreigners. Only a couple of weeks before we had attended a birthday party for her 11-year-old daughter, Germita. Invisible out int he kitchen until we insisted upon thanking here, was Consuelo's mother, who had cooked a full meal as well as cakes and cookies.