You can walk around with your laptop, and even leave it around charging in a common area. Everyone's got one!
If you are looking for some movies or music to add to your collection, you can find them.
Never have we met so many people from Switzerland.
Everyone speaks English (except the cooking/cleaning staff). This is sort of nice since you don't really have to try to communicate, but really bad for your Spanish skills and highly frustrating considering we're in Ecuador. Many travelers don't speak any Spanish at all. At Cotopaxi, the couple in charge of the place (a 2-ish month stint) didn't speak Spanish and seemed to willfully reject the idea of learning. Not cool.
The attitude is highly Eurocentric (they are ok with Americans too), down to even the food. They won't serve local dishes and instead come up with sub-par versions of Western dishes. In Quito we could get food elsewhere, but at Cotopaxi there wasn't anything within about an hour. We don't want banana crepes with chocolate sauce for breakfast!
It becomes almost too easy to have other people organize your adventures for you.
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