Final days in Ecuador

Hello,

I can´t believe how fast the time has flow! I was in the jungle for 6 weeks and am now in Quito for the night preparing for my bus journey of over 24 hours tomorrow to Bogota in Colombia!

Last week we did Magic week at summer school (inspired by Harry Potter!) so we made hats, wands, spiders webs and fortune tellers and played lots of magic related games! It was really good fun. So sad to say goodbye to the children but I tried not to make a big deal out of it because I didn´t want to upset them. And its strange to think that the project will just continue without me as I felt like such a big part of it but I guess its the same with everything.

On Wednesday night I went for dinner to one of the local family´s houses which was great. They cooked crb, platano and stir fried rice with chicken which was absolutely delicious! In Ecuador they eat eveything with spoons or fingers and having never eaten an entire crab before I was a bit of a ammature but they soon had me ripping it appart and sucking out the meat like a true ecuadorian! It was so nice to spend some time in their house with the whole family. It is so surreal, they live in a little wooden house with no windows or doors in the middle of the jungle but still mnage to have a TV and DVD player! Very strange! Another family organised a party to say goodbye on Thursday night which was so much fun. I provided the chilckens (live!) and the family cooked a delicious meal. We also had to drink this stuff called Chicha which is made by chewing and spitting out uka! Pretty disgusting as it is just warn spit but it is a delicasy so it would have been rude to decline it! We danced under the stars in the middle of the jungle in out wellies all night! So much fun! (Although I drank this juice which made me very sick the following day so the family are mortified that they poisoned me!)

Overall I absolutely loved my time in the jungle and I would love to go back some day (as I say about every place I´ve been!). I know I must seem rediculously over enthusiastic about everywhere I go and what I´ve been up to but I promise you I am not over exaggerating, you all have to come here to see what I mean!

Anyway, 6 weeks left then home! xxxxxxx