Monday, September 17, 2012

I'm an international model, say what?


I arrived in Ecuador the evening of the 7th, Fausto, who stayed in our house five years ago met me at the airport in Guayaquil and we went directly to Montanita. As soon as we walked into town we bumped into my buddy Riley who had been traveling for the last three months. Another friend, from Germany who was an exchange student when I was also happened to be in montanita at the same time. It was a night of reunions, seeing Fausto and Leo after four years and the juxtiposition of seeing Riley in Ecuador was almost too much to deal with. Even after traveling for almost 28 hours  from leaving Ashland to getting to Montanita I was energized to hang out with everyone.  Fausto and I quickly found a hostal, showered, ate and met everyone to go out.
The next day, Fausto and I were sitting out on the street side eating a set lunch. Here in Ecaudor one can get a meal from $1.50 to $3.00 usually, it comes with rice, lentils or beans, a piece of meat and soup usually. We were going to town on our chicken when two women approached us and asked if they could sit down at our table. We told them that we were almost finished and they said that they wanted to talk with us. They asked if I would model for them in a video in an hour. They said that they'd pay me $100, so I of course said sure.
We went back to our hotel, showered, took a nap and they picked us up. We went to another part of the beach where they took the video above. Pretty funny, I had a hard time keeping a straight face sometimes, I couldn't believe that on my second day in Ecaudor I was modeling. It sure wasn't what I was imagining!
When everything was finished they asked if I could come to Guayquil the net weekend to be in a runway walk. I did, on Saturday I spent all day at the location sitting around until we finally got to walk. It was a great experience, now I can say I've modeled.  It's a crazy world, shallow and superficial, but another interesting experience worth sharing.





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