More of my Kitchen

Look at how drab my walls are. That used to be my whole house. Great advice I received from another volunteer was: make your house your home first. There is a difference in those two words. Your home is your safe haven and if you aren't happy when you're there how are you going to be happy in your community?

All I Really Want to Do is Baby be Friends With You, A Story About Integration

May 20th 2010
Okay, so I've survived my first two weeks alone in site. It's crunch time, integration time. Time to make friends and build relationships and get stuff done. So Cara, what have you done? Ahh, yeah. Not much. I went to a bunch of markets and bought food, I painted a few rooms in my house, I bought a bike for way too much money, I started a vegetable garden, and I've started to make a home fo ... read more

South America » Ecuador » Centre » Chimborazo

The "Republic of the Equator" was one of three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others are Colombia and Venezuela). Between 1904 and 1942, Ecuador lost territories in a series of conflicts with its neighbors. A b... ... read more

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