Country roads, take me home, to the place, I belong...
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Spent the last two weeks back in Salasaca, volunteering at Escula Katiwati and Santa Maria Biblioteca. Had an even better time this go round, got to spend more time with some of the old volunteers, and met some new ones (including two Austonians I brought with me from the Galapagos and a 19 year old from Boulder, CO!). The kids were wild and as adorable as ever and I made it in time for another crazy 3 day festival having to do with the invasion of the Spanish conquistadors (which now explains all the men running around with black and white face paint, riding horses and carrying gold statues). I ended up back in kindergarten. My first morning at the school was also the day the kindergarten teacher decided to quit, so it was just me and seven little ninos allllllll day long.
The story goes like this: Rimi, the cook, saw the kindergarden teacher stealing from a market in a nearby town (highly unlikely), they had a huge argument in the school kitchen, and neither has returned since.
I did learn however, there is a mini Salasacan jail across from the library and if you commit a crime in town you are taken there, where each family comes by to give you a switch, beginning with your own family! Yikes, but seems to work, this is probably the safest place I have ever been in my life.
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First day back at school |
The story goes like this: Rimi, the cook, saw the kindergarden teacher stealing from a market in a nearby town (highly unlikely), they had a huge argument in the school kitchen, and neither has returned since.
I did learn however, there is a mini Salasacan jail across from the library and if you commit a crime in town you are taken there, where each family comes by to give you a switch, beginning with your own family! Yikes, but seems to work, this is probably the safest place I have ever been in my life.
Here are some pics from my last few days in Ecuador...minus the few days I got sick:-(
 Night out in Banos with some of the new volunteers, and yes, that´s a genuine Peruvian Alpaca sweater.  Just another day–in–the–life of a Salasacan  Lunch-time with the bad boys of Grupo Uno and as always, Gringa dog  View of the town of Baños de Aqua Santa from halfway up the highly active Volcano Tungurahua  |
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| The local deli department, made 13 hamburgers this night |
Me va a extrañar especialmente a esta chica Koreana! I don't think I've ever cared for someone so much in such little time...Salasaca would not have been the same without her and she taught me everything I now know about skin care and Kimchi!
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| My view the last morning in Ecuador....pretty amazing! |
oh and what would not upload was a picture of my yummy avocado popsicle and a day trip to Quisapincha, leather town!
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