Fuck it dude, your going to a god damn foreign country to learn and experience the culture and environment, and you're worried about smokin bud? I'd kill for a chance to live somewhere that isn't North America for a year.
Lol... I'm not complaining, I just found it shocking how harsh the penelties were for weed when here you get a slap on the wrist.
from the sounds of it, the upside is that there will be plenty of drunk ecuadoran girls looking to be sexually revolutionized, am i right?