so the latest political news is that there is a new president...crazy huh? anyways i really don´t have much to say except that the beach was amazing. this weekend im going to this town called salinas where they make really good chocolate and cheese apparantly. i just love getting out of quito. i was really ready to go home last week and i was ( Read more... )

...ok well i guess not really, but we didn´t have school today. There has been political problems going on with the current president, and now the ex president coming back to town, some people aren´t that happy, so the transportation went on strike and we were told that class was going to be cancelled. it turns out that only the city owned buses ( Read more... )

Ok, well last Friday, March 19th we were in the Galapagos, we had had an AMAZING couple of days….Thursday we had arrived on the Island of Santa Cruz where the airport is. We took a bus to this hut in the forest where we went for a walk and saw Giant Tortoises! They were just hanging out in the woods. After that we drove to this cave created by a ( Read more... )

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Tommorrow at this time i'll be in the Galapagos!!! I can't even begin to describe how excited I am!!!

Be back in a week.

chao

Ok, so there is alot to write about, im going to start with my field trip to Guayalito with my Flora and Fauna class...well kinda, only two people from my class went. but it was fun, it was this guys farm way up in the mountains, it was a cloud forest and all we did was hike around the whole day and occasionally stop to look at cool plants. ( Read more... )

So, I have realized that i haven´t updated my journal in a while. lets see what have i been up to? Yesterday we went to Otavalo again to buy yarn for out tejido class. it was fun, we stayed at a hostel for 3 dollers for the night, got a ton of yarn! and just came back to quito. i think i am going to weave a turtle for my final project for tejido ( Read more... )

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!! I miss my Valentine!!

Soo...yesterday we went to ambato for the day, and for carnival. our journey started off by buying tickets for a bus that already left. after arguing with the merchant and some police, we decided to forget it and hop another bus. after a 2 hour journey and an awful movie about teen pregnancy, we arrived in the small town of ambato. We needed to ( Read more... )

This weekend we visited the Tiputini Biodiversity Station in the Amazon jungle. It was absolutely awesome! First we took a plane, which literally lasted only 20 minutes. As soon as we leveled off we started to descend again. Then after arriving at coca, a small town where the airport is, we hopped a bus to the river and then took a 2 hour ride ( Read more... )

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