Hola, we have now arrived in Mindo. On sunday afternoon we took a gorgeuos two hour bus ride here. Mindo is a delightful, small town of about 1000 people where everyone knows each other. We will be staying here for two weeks. Our schedule goes like so: every morning from 9 to 10 we go work at a daycare called Amiguitos for small kids who have nothing to do all day becuase their mom´s need to work as maids all day. The kids are hilarious and I am loving this. We started by teaching them colors in English but soon found out that they don´t even know them in Spanish. Since then we have been doing teambuilding games with them. From 10:30 to 12:30 we have Spanish lessons. Then in the afternoon we teach kids computer skills. This is pretty fun, we are just teaching them the basics in Microsoft Word. We have been doing some fun things for them to create, like making a menu for an imaginary restaurant or designing a book cover. My personal favorite was ¨Piter Pan y los Pinguinos.¨ Everything has been going great, and I am loving Mindo.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Arriving in Ecuador, experiencing Quito
Hola amigos,
I flew out of L.A. on thursday the 19th at 2 am. it was only a 7 hour flight (which seemed like nothing after India). We encounted no problems and it all went easily. There was a full moon also, which was cool. We were picked up from the airport by the Surango family, that my brother Caleb is staying with for the whole summer. We got to spend three days with them to get to know them and get a glimpse of Caleb´s situation for the summer. They are an amazing family. The parents are Carlos and Katty and they have kids Jimmy (20), Erick (16), and Genesis (8). They are all very fun and a great family. Carlos is the pastor of their church. They live on top of their church, and a really cool house, that is kind of like narrow maze. The landscape around them is beautiful.
On saturday we had the oppurtunity to go to a small community called Langualo of maybe 50 or 100 people 3 hours away with their church as an outreach project. It was an amazing experience in all. Also, when going there we were warned that we would be eating guinnea pigs. Sure enough it only took Genesis about 5 minutes to show me a cage with about 100 of them in it. I asked her if we would be eating these and she shrugged saying, ¨Talvez (maybe)¨. Unfourtunately we only got to eat chicken, but they said if we came back they would make us guinnea pig.
I flew out of L.A. on thursday the 19th at 2 am. it was only a 7 hour flight (which seemed like nothing after India). We encounted no problems and it all went easily. There was a full moon also, which was cool. We were picked up from the airport by the Surango family, that my brother Caleb is staying with for the whole summer. We got to spend three days with them to get to know them and get a glimpse of Caleb´s situation for the summer. They are an amazing family. The parents are Carlos and Katty and they have kids Jimmy (20), Erick (16), and Genesis (8). They are all very fun and a great family. Carlos is the pastor of their church. They live on top of their church, and a really cool house, that is kind of like narrow maze. The landscape around them is beautiful.
On saturday we had the oppurtunity to go to a small community called Langualo of maybe 50 or 100 people 3 hours away with their church as an outreach project. It was an amazing experience in all. Also, when going there we were warned that we would be eating guinnea pigs. Sure enough it only took Genesis about 5 minutes to show me a cage with about 100 of them in it. I asked her if we would be eating these and she shrugged saying, ¨Talvez (maybe)¨. Unfourtunately we only got to eat chicken, but they said if we came back they would make us guinnea pig.
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