Lastly, the third floor has the laundry room and a door to their terrace where they hang their laundry to dry in the sun.
Their chores sound a lot like the chores most people have in the U.S: Cleaning their rooms, washing dishes, cleaning the computer room, doing laundry and sweeping the house.
Their mom is an English professor at PUCE-SI, the same university I work at, and their dad is also an English professor, but at the Universidad Técnica del Norte in another part of Ibarra.
They start school at 7 am and end at 1 pm. On Saturdays, they also have separate English classes not part of their normal school at PUCE-SI.
Since they attend the same school, Alex and Niko take about ten-minute taxi ride to school every morning by themselves.
Since they end school at 1 pm everyday, they usually come back home for lunch. Sometimes they eat lunch in the cafeteria at school or in a restaurant. Niko and Alex both love pizza and Alex also loves encebollado (a soup with seafood and lots of onions and other vegetables and spices) (cebolla means "onion" in Spanish).