Doctors New Provider Letter

travel and work life

Hi,
it was long ago that I last time I wrote, but it is also the 1. Week for four weeks that I spent in Quito.
The most important thing has happened in this period:
I have a weekend at a children's home in Ambato (2.5 hours from Quito) worked because all professional educators and teachers of the project had a 4-day seminar. That meant for us volunteers that we have moved with the street children from the point of contact / emergency accommodation into long-term children's home and have bridged the time there.
It was a big challenge because we had to (8 volunteers) to take care of 25 children, which of course have first tested our limits. Promptly on the first afternoon, then suddenly disappeared, and returned only 10 children on Evening back. That was strictly forbidden, and so we had to think up a punishment: Before dinner would get the 10 they had to first wash dishes and utensils of the children who were not cut off. This message then made sure the first time for a revolt, but still - the days thereafter remained good on the site. In the time where we have organized several activities with the children, to avoid importing a garbage collection campaign with prizes and even a football game with all what has been a lot of fun.

addition to the weekend in Ambato, I spent a weekend in Mindo and one in Baños. Mindo is a small village in the rain forest, where I shot 618 photos in two days, what to write, however, the burst mode of my camera: D. There was the rope slides for up to 500 m and with whom they were virtually "fly" over the rain forest could. Also a really nice walk to a waterfall, you could just jump down to the (12 m). Sorry, I make up for the day was ill and needs that jump to a different weekend.

Our hostel premises in Mindo

The group of volunteers in the rope slides Dress

on cable through the rain forest

The longest rope slip travel

Our hostel

Tarzaaan: D

The waterfall in the upper right corner could be in the pool to jump into

The weekend in Baños was one of the up to now Free in Ecuador! Baños is the gateway to the Amazon "and a very popular tourist spot. One can very well go there and celebrate a great bike ride (70 km) take all downhill to 11 waterfalls, of which the largest is 48 m high. We have then made it however so dawdled that first evening we arrived in Puyo. A real adventure, because It has been raining intermittently in streams and when we arrived it was dark and we were totally exhausted and drenched. Sunday we spent the morning and then a soak in the hot springs before we traveled back to Quito.

The "Gateway to the Amazon"

bike tour!

A baby anaconda on the way

The mächstigste waterfall

Even my everyday life is beautiful. My work is fun and next week I'll be even with another volunteer teaching English because the English teacher is always busy with some paperwork and makes little lessons. The first lesson is already planned out!
The highlights of everyday life Wednesday nights are always the salsa lessons - I will come back as a talented salsa dancers to Germany: D.

Until next time!