Wk 4: Writer of the Week

Hi! Since I was out-of-town the last several weeks and not able to write, and I at least wanted to work something from my travels into my piece this week. The Virgin Mary of Quito really is right in the middle of the city, with her back to the South. The south is considered to be the "worse" half of town, so Quiteños say "even the virgin turned her back on the south." But when I asked one of my friends about it, he said that he just doesn't got there because he doesn't have much reason too, and he is used to the north side. He had gone there for work a few times, and found that there were some differences (he said, for instance, that a lot of business is done in cash, like credit cards just hadn't caught on in that part of town, and that the streets seemed to be laid out with a little less planing), but that he really didn't get the sense that it was much more dangerous than the north part of town. So, I wanted to write a story about how sometimes we assume that a particular fact has such great significance, when really, to those who created it, it was just happenstance.