Well we are back here again, back in Baños. Good thing I like this city. It is nice, quiet, but comfortable. And lots to do. However, we are not here to necessarily be complete tourists, we are trying really hard to get our lives figured out. The place that we were going to be volunteering at here by Baños just fell through, which is really unfortunate. We had been counting on that and had not really set any other plans in to the works, and so now we are back to square one. Which is a sad place to be!! So we have sent out many emails to other organizations, and are trying to get something together. We have had a few responces, but they are not ideal for us. One of them is all the way down in Bolivia and that would be a long time to get there and is only a volunteer place fo 4 hours a day in the middle of a big, rather dangerous city. We are thinking maybe something in Columbia now too. We are trying to widen our horizons to beyond just Ecuador, even though I would have thought that there would have been plenty to do here.
Small victory though: I had two conversations in Spanish with two different people today. That was a great thing. They were pretty basic conversations, but it was still great to actually talk to people and not only know what they are saying, but to be able to chat back! We have been here for ove three weeks now and I am glad that something is paying off.
Okay, well I am off to study some spanish. We are making pictures today of the body, a kitchen, a house, etc and labeling it all and memorizing it. It should be a good practice excercise.
PS if Monica from Work reads this, or of someone from work does, tell Monica that I would love her family contacts in Columbia! I forgot to bring with me the page that had every ones email addresses on it. So maybe someone can email me? My email address is just erikatrott@gmail.com
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I don't know exactly what you're looking for, but it might be worth a shot to try Tierra del Volcán, the place that me and my friends did volunteer work for two weeks up near Cotopaxi. Here's the website, and the person who was our contact was a woman named Maria, who's in charge of a lot of the stuff there (at least in summer 2008). She was great.
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Good luck!
Kita... one of my KS colleagues, a marine biologist, said that being that close to the Galapagos, it is something not to miss!
ReplyDeleteHappy anniversary, dear. It's been almost a month already! Missing you
ReplyDeleteaww thanks Dad, yeah this month has flown by.
ReplyDeleteMom, to get to the Galapagos for a week is about 1,000 dollars. american. YIKES! Not worth it haha, but i do wish I could, so many people have said that it is amazing. I'll just have to settle for the beaches here...
Way to go learning Spanish...nice!
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