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Published: January 3rd 2009
Flor de la Amazonia
Where the volunteers stayed and where we had meetingsIt´s quite sad in a way that my four weeks in Ecuador is almost up. I regret not being able to make it to the coast but i have many more chances to see it when i want to. Heather and Ben left today, but before they left Ben nearly got attacked by a coati who always jumps on my head and back when i am in there, and he managed to do a graceful spin off of the bench and smash his side on the stairs but saved his lunch from spilling. We are getting seven new volunteers on Monday, allegedly. This is my last weekend off so next week i will work until Friday, take the bus in afternoon to Baños, stay there the night, then go to Quito for the following night as my plane leaves next morning.
New Years in Baños was a blast! We went and got some food to eat and started drinking and before long we were wearing our masks we got and people were dancing in the streets and making fools of themselves. During the ride to Baños and whilst in the city, kids and adults would dress up in costumes and
Squirrel Monkey
Harasses the other animals, especially the free birds and the capuchins masks (usually as some kind of monster or ugly woman with a fake baby) much like we do on Halloweén and stopped cars, buses, and taxis as they pass begging for money and wouldn´t let them go until they got change or the driver tried to run them over. Kids stop people walking in the street in costumes and beg for money as the tradition, and sometimes people would take photos of the Ecuadorians in costume who then expected money in return.
We had some drinks at the café we ate at, then walked to the bar street where people were partying in the street and drinking and carrying on. We went to one bar and tried to play pool games which most of us were rubbish at (which was me, Glen, Sarah, Heather, Ben and Flavio who knows a bit of English) so i hung out with Flavio most of the night trying to talk to him in my horrible Spanish, which he claims he understood most of, when i tried to explain how to play the pool games or what people were saying. We made our way to another bar where you can drink outside and ordered
Toucan
He was funny to watch eat. Apparently in 158% better shape than when the centre gotten him months ago! drink after drink and watched people. Heather and Sarah entertained most of us by dancing for hours in the street in their masks and when we went inside the bar (which was full of people dancing as well) i tried to save Sarah from an old Ecuadorian man who wouldn´t stop dancing with her or let her go, so i stole her from him only to have him try to dance with me! Then when i eluded him by going to the bathroom, as soon as i emerged he found me and wanted to dance again, so i had to trick him and rush out the door pretending my friends were leaving. It was madness. We found Flavio dancing in the club surrounded by 4 or 5 gringo girls all dancing, one of which was from Argentina and asked where i was from adn when i said the States, she cringed and danced away from me, so i think i will claim to be Canadian from now on, or Antarctican (: ... I had to carry him (Flavio) to the hostel while Ben carried Heather who complained the whole time about how she now hates all Americans because she just
Coati
Out for an insect walk; we had to put them on a lead to prevent them from running away, but they needed practice collecting insects! met one in the bathroom who disagreed with some political statement she made that CNN mainly focused on US news, not the world, or something ridiculous like that. Drunk people should not have political debates in the restroom.
The next day we tried to hurry back to feed the animals but it was difficult since we were hungover, tired, and the buses weren´t running properly, and the ones that did were jammed full of people. Then we got stuck on a hot bus in Puyo waiting two hours to leave, while we made jokes about the hole in my hand from the coati bite that squirts pus and eats children.
Now i finish my business in Puyo, which my bank is acting funny and these small towns won´t cash Travellers Cheques from American Express so i hope i have enough to leave the country, other wise i will be stuck here, which i am fine with, it´s quite lovely here. Otherwise if things get sorted in time i should be back in the States on Sunday night.
Speak to all soon when i return for the final chapter of my Ecuador adventure.
Brosandi, Út Í Óvissuna
Coati
In a tree... called coatimundi, is part of the raccoon family
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