1. What is your first name: Cecilia
2. What city are you from: Otavalo
3. What country are you from: Ecuador
4. What do you do: Translator
5. If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go and why: Hamburg, Germany because I have a brother there.  He’s been in Germany for 9 years and sells handy crafts.
6. What’s your dream and why: I would like to get married and have a baby.  I’d like to raise a girl one day.

FOGG Notes: Cecilia is an indigenous Ecuadorian.  I feel like I have been pretty lucky to have gotten indigenous people to pose for me in 2 weeks.  She speaks Spanish, Kichwa and English.  She works 3-4 times a year with doctors from the USA and assists them in translating, helping poorer regions of the country get medical help.  I asked about why all indigenous women wear the same clothes and necklaces all the time.  The clothes are traditional attire like anything else (Americans: blue jeans, t-shirt and a cap) but the necklaces mean a little more than traditions.  Back when gold was a major Inca commodity women would wear gold necklaces to show wealth and stature.  The more links they wore the better off they were.  It could also be used to barter and trade with, by taking off a necklace and cutting off some links to pay for food exc exc.  Now today most of the necklaces you see aren’t made of pure gold (they’d be robbed in a heart beat) but the tradition still goes on.

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