October 22, 2005

• IMÁGENES DE RECUERDOS
  Images of Memories

  
  ¿Reconoces las calles?
  Do you recognize the streets?

  This is a Google satellite image of part of my old stomping
  grounds in Quito

  On the left N/S is Calle San Francisco
  On the right N/S is Calle 10 de agosto
  crossing through the middle E/W of the photo is Calle Villalengua
  across the top E/W is Calle Juan Diguja
  Going up the center N/S at the top is Calle Vozandes
  Cutting the upper left corner is Avenida América

  The large empty space is the Alliance Academy (where I went to school) soccer
  field – what used to be the “elementary side” of the street before they
  tore down all the old buildings and put the elementary school on the south side
  of Villalengua on the other side of the middle/high school (that’s why the other
  side of the street is so crowded now!)

  To the left (west) of the soccer field, all the way up to San
  Francisco, is the HCJB compound.  Across from HCJB, is Hospital
  Vozandes.  South of the hospital (at the bottom of the page) are
  the Alliance Dorm and the Missionary Church Dorm.

  To the left (west) of the soccer field, all the way up to San Francisco, is the
  HCJB mission compound.  Across from HCJB, is Hospital Vozandes.  West of the
  Hospital is the Iñaquito Church.  South of the hospital (at the bottom of the
  page) are the Alliance Dorm and the Missionary Church Dorm.

  Tucked tightly in between the school and the hospital, on the
  south side of Villalengua, is a little house restaurant called “Q’Mas” that
  serves really really good empanadas.

  On the upper half of the picture, across Calle Diguja from
  the Soccer field is the funky looking architecture of the Catholic church. If
  you go west from there, across Calle Vozandes, there is a large building
  right on the corner of Vozandes and Diguja that is an apartment building called
  “Harmony House”  It used to be where my house was… a big yellow
  two-story house with huge fir trees I used to climb all the time.  (I’d climb up
  them until I could reach around the trunk with my hand)
  I lived there from
  the time I was in 4th grade, through 8th grade
  before any of those
  roads other than América and 10 de agosto were paved.

  If you continued on
  Calle Vozandes off the top of the picture, to the left you would find
  “missionary row” where a lot of HCJB missionaries still live, and across the
  street on the right you would find the GMU Dorm, offices, apartments and guest
  house
  (I guess that mission is now called Avant Ministries)

  Amazing how a little picture can capture so much history.
  

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