My favourite class.. the 5 year olds (and the headmistress at the front learning the alphabet with them!)

Ecuador, Peurto Lopez.. teaching!

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October 8th 2006
.. so after a couple of weeks of travelling in the mountains.. to PUERTO LOPEZ (a small fishing town on the Ecuador coast) .. for a month of volunteer teaching.. Puerto Lopez is a small dusty town (with few paved streets, hence it gets very muddy after any rain.. and so do shoes and clothes!). The way people talk about PL here you'd think it was a metropolis, but I guess it is the biggest pl ... read more

South America » Ecuador » West » Puerto López

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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