{"id":1578,"date":"2011-10-13T16:32:24","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T16:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.globalroutes.org\/?p=1578"},"modified":"2011-10-13T16:32:24","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T16:32:24","slug":"update-from-hannah-on-behalf-of-the-catazacon-clan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalroutes.org\/staging\/8011\/2011\/10\/13\/update-from-hannah-on-behalf-of-the-catazacon-clan\/","title":{"rendered":"Update from Hannah on behalf of the Catazacon clan!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Interns<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Elena and I had a very busy weekend in Catazacon. It started with us traveling to the river (about a 30 minute walk) with a few of our oldest students and spending the afternoon swimming and diving. Our students showed us the ropes in fruit picking on our way back to the village\u2026We\u2019ve found that cacao contains some of the most delicious fruit here in Ecuador. When we got back to Catazacon we were lucky to get to meet up with Ben, Rani, and Amelia who came to stay for the night! We went to the sequia (swimming hole) with them and our students and then all headed to Elena\u2019s house for a birthday party. After dinner, caf\u00e9, and a lot<\/span> of singing we got to watch and take part in some traditional Ecuadorian dancing. It was a late night \u2013 we didn\u2019t go to bed until 11! \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Saturday was filled with a fruit picking adventure in the morning at Elena\u2019s family farm. We collected about 300 oranges before we returned back to the village for lunch. The second half of the day included a trip to Moraspungo, church for Elena, and some chancho (or pig) washing for me with my siblings and then a dip in the sequia with all of my neighbors.<\/p>\n

On Sunday Elena watched a neighborhood soccer game and spent the day visiting with her host family. I went to the market in Quinsaloma and then to a barbeque with my host sister. They sang karaoke for about 3 hours and then persuaded me to participate\u2026needless to say, the song \u201cI Will Always Love You\u201d is better left to Whitney Houston.<\/p>\n

All in all Elena and I are really enjoying Catazacon and our host families. We are getting to learn how to cook \u201creal\u201d Ecuadorian food, master the bus system to neighboring villages, pick fruit effortlessly, and find swimming holes with ease like our students do. This week has already started out incredibly well at school. We are beginning to teach \u201cThe Family\u201d and then will move on to \u201cThe Body.\u201d We will keep you posted!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Elena and I had a very busy weekend in Catazacon. It started with us traveling to the river (about a 30 minute walk) with a few of our oldest students and spending the afternoon swimming and diving. Our students showed us the ropes in fruit picking on our way back to the village\u2026We\u2019ve found […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecuador-tip-2011","category-gap-yearcollege-programs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalroutes.org\/staging\/8011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalroutes.org\/staging\/8011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalroutes.org\/staging\/8011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalroutes.org\/staging\/8011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalroutes.org\/staging\/8011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalroutes.org\/staging\/8011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalroutes.org\/staging\/8011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalroutes.org\/staging\/8011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalroutes.org\/staging\/8011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}