Blogs from Mitad del Mundo, North, Ecuador, South America - page 5

hola chicas y chicos CH: Do isch immer wahnissinig vell los! Nor hani nid immer lust dezue öpis z schriebe, drum also es sammelsurium vode letschte ziit. DE: Ist immer wahnsinnig viel los hier! Nur hab ich nicht immer lust was dazu zu schreiben, hier also ein Sammelsurium von jeglichen Events. EN: Here is going on a lot! So here is a collection of the events what happend in the last time... FI: Täällä on tosiaan niin monia tapahtumia, että en viitsinyt kirjoittaa niistä pieniä juttuja. Eli nyt tässä kuvakokoelma. ES: Aquí en Quito pasa siempre mucho, pero no tuve ganas y tiempo escribir de estes dias..entonces ahora una collection del ultimo tiempo.. FR: Ici à Quito passe toujours beaucoup, mais je n'avais pas le temps et la envie d'escrire des ces événements..alors, une petite collection ... read more

Can you guess where the Mitad del Mundo is? Ok we headed south straight to quito where debbie and myself met up with a friend claire who works in an international school. We were lucky enough to have her spare room and the full use odçf cable tv washiong machine hot shower!!! Prior to our stay a class teacher form Y5 left unexpectedly so we said we would cover for a week as we had time. It was a great experience working with Ecuadorian children in their own country. Even though it was an english speaking school. Spanish is there first language. Debbie and I had a great time we turned the class around got display and groups sorted, which was made easier with 9 free periods each 40 mins and two teachers and a TA ... read more

Travelling to Quito with an electrical student as a seat mate required only two hours. Being in the aisle seat, on a public bus that was totally full, I had no opportunity to take shots of the countryside. Driving into the city involved going thru numerous tunnels up steep streets and down steep inclines thru another tunnel. Overhead walkways, stairs going up between houses and the houses themselves seeming to be built atop one another gave a quick and permanent picture of the walking that would be required. At the Quito bus station we grabbed taxis and were on our way … until every vehicle seemed to be going in the same direction. It was election Sunday the taxi driver explained. In further conversation he told me that everyone over 18 was obliged to vote and ... read more

today we went to the colonial center and went into to 2 churches. they were beautiful but i forgot their names like always and my camera!!!! then we got to have a free day. yosemarie, karla, adam and i chose to go to the equator because when will we get a chance to do that again and we werent doing it with our group which was a shame. it was awesome and we were so glad we went. it is 45 minutes away by taxi and it was 28.00 split amongst the 4 of us. they did experiments and the equator is the only place where u can stick an egg on a nail and it balance. i did it and i got a certifacate that i almost forgot in the bookstore. then they showed us ... read more

Hey y´all This will be a short one since we are off to see another site but I wanted to add some photos from our first day. We managed to get to the equator this morning before the hordes and it was pretty cool! We stood on THE LINE, saw some cool displays and then grabbed a bus for the historical center of the City. This is what we shot this morning.... read more