I thought I would lave a quick blog just to keep things up to date. For the past week I have been working for an organisation called FODI which works with child development schemes in rural communties all over Ecuador. I have been based here in Macas, of course, and in the past week have visited 8 communities already, and next week will follow the same pattern. The first of of the communties involved 2 hours in a bus followed by 2 hours walking through the rainf...

I have just returned from a great weekend in atown called baños in the middle of the Andes. I will try and keep this short so as not to bore anyone too much! On Thursday I started a new job which involvs community development such as promoting education, building and doing solo medical brigades without a doctor. We went to a place called Playa de Macumas which was in the middle of the rainforest, as per usual, and we went with Tony´s new bosses called...

Here I am again, having returned from a packed weekend in Quito. On Thursday night, after another hefty gym session, I got on the bus, at midnight, and headed off on the all too familiar bus ride to Quito. I arrived early on Friday morning and took a taxi to the hostal where I was to meet Maria, my guide for the weekend. Maria is from Ecuador but has spent the last 5 years living in Spain and will probably spend the rest of her life there, although she returns to...

I last left off just before I headed off to the coast which was over a week ago now so there is a little bit to catch up on. On Tuesday afternoon I stocked up with supplies of bread, nutella and juice for what was going to be a near enough 20 hour journey, and then headed to the gym to knock me out before getting on the bus. As I expected the gym was tough, and another guy called Alex (that´s 3 now) pushed my triceps to the max, I could barley feel them that...

I thought I would update my blog now as I am off to the coast tonight and will not return until Sunday. On Saturday nothing special happened, I just chilled out, slept, and spent way too much time trying to work out how to upload photographs in the internet cafe. Saturday night however was a completely different story! We all went to a bar, except Anna, who has some kind of tropical fever at the moment :S We started on a healthy amount of beer and before long Mel...