Blogs from Puyo, Centre, Ecuador, South America - page 11

Wow, I am ever so busy planning this ¨Festival of Water¨ here in Puyo. Every day this week I am going to different schools to meet with teachers. My job is to arm them with information about the topics of water, water conservation, water quality & quantity, and so forth so they in turn can help their students develop a project to present at the Festival. The first school I visited is right by my apartment. It was pouring down rain and I walked there at 8:00. I met the principal in his office - he remembered me from last week - Thank God!!! and then asked me to wait. He then sent a student to get the teacher - she came in and he explained right then and there, for the first time, that she ... read more

So I left off yesterday with a headache, all is well now. Last night I was able to watch Grey´s Anatomy, Desperate Housewives and CSI Las Vegas all in English. This is what happens when you end up at a hotel instead of a hostel with a bunch of travel hungry, story telling foreigners. But that´s ok, I did quite well, caught up on some much needed sleep and I am ready and alert to continue on to the Amazon to help all the cute animals. I use cute loosely, but I love animals and a majority of the animal kingdom is cute to me. But that is equivalent to loving them immensely. So where did I leave off? Oh yes ... It was around 330 we decided to head back to the bus terminal to ... read more

Yesterday was a day to enjoy. I really had absolutely nothing that needed to get done. I thought about building a bed frame and made all the necessary calculations - then decided, that I didn´t want to spend the day indoors doing that - afterall, today was one of the first sunny days in a while. I got up, had some breakfast (yogurt and granola), then proceeded to wash my clothes, sheets, and towels. I used some string I had to put up some makeshift clotheslines on the roof - I would have gone into town to get real clothesline first, but there was no telling how long the sun would last. By the time, I finished washing clothes, the sheets were already dry - so I was off to a good start. I then walked ... read more

Apparently, while I was at the workshop, Susan met our upstairs neighbors. It was not the best of meetings. Our landlord went out of his way to tell us to use the roof of our building to dry our clothes. Well, we have done this numerous times without any problem. The other day, as Susan was taking some clothes off the line, our neighbor came up and told her that the lines were his and that she should buy her own and stop using his. He was upset because his wife had no place to hang their clothes. Susan replied to him by saying, ¨hello I´m Susan - nice to meet you - I am sorry but I didn´t realize these were yours.¨ He apparently was not very nice. This is all interesting because his lines ... read more

So, yesterday I had a good culinary/baking day. I made pancakes from scratch and I baked chocolate chip cookies in our toaster oven. Both managed to turn out pretty well. After my cooking and baking endeavors, we headed into town to catch the end of yet another parade. This was the big one so to speak. It started at 11 and went until 3. We met up with the other Volunteer in Puyo, Katie. She just switched sites this week. She invited us over to her apartment for lunch. She made burritos that were fantastic. The tortillas were made from scratch and were most excellent. I brought some of my cookies and we had a couple beers with our meal. After that, Sue and I headed home to read and relax. Relaxing is a commodity this ... read more