Ecuador Teaching Internship 2011

For our final thrill, we headed out Saturday morning down the Rio Napo on motorized canoes to explore the Amazon jungle! After a beautiful river ride past lush flora, we arrived at our first exploration site. We spent the next 3-4 hours hiking through a secondary rainforest with an indigenous, Quichuan guide, who stopped to […]

Even though we were all so sad that we weren’t able to spend Thanksgiving with our real families, we had the incredible opportunity to have a full-blown Thanksgiving in San Luis de Pambil. Although our Thanksgiving was anything but traditional, we had turkey, stuffing, gravy, apple pie, mashed potatoes, string beans, root vegetables, corn, sweet

Well-VERSED in Maria Aurora (to be read in rhyme…) Welcome back to Maria Aurora Here’s our newest batch of news for ya. It’s been a while since we’ve written, and since that time, with our families and village we’ve become smitten. We’ve been laughing and swimming and teaching each day, in afternoon classes we made

Written by Hannah Fixel: As I write this I’m currently drenched in sugar cane juice and watching my host family dance to the radio while the juice boils down into sugar. This is our second full, 9-hour day at the farm preparing raw panela, or sugar from sugar cane. The days have been exhausting, but

News from Catazacon… (courtesy of Elena) Hannah and I have had a wonderful week back to school in Catazacon. On Monday Hannah took on the children by herself while I went to Corazon with Juliana and her 3-year-old daughter, Valentina, to have a cesarean. As it turned out, we have to wait a week, but