This weekend's trip was full of surprises! It started Thursday night when we took the night bus to Tena, a 5 hour bus ride, to a town on the edge of the jungle. We arrived around 11 pm just in time for an amazing thunder shower and rain storm. The hostel we stayed at was full of wild life, at least on the stairs up to the rooms. We saw a huge dead cockroach, and leaf shaped bugs, I cant remember what they were called but there were interesting looking creatures t...

My week has been quite well. It was officially my second week here in Quito with Spanish and Clinical Rotations. Spanish is going well and I am leaning more and more each day, but when in the clinics and hospitals it is so different and I am so far from being fluent!!! This week my rotation was at Hospital Eugenio Espejo. I was in the Emergency department and another kid from our group was with me, his name was Michael and he was from SeattleWashington and just g...

Hey guys! So im in Baños right now! We had an amazing day!!! We arrived last night around 10:00pm and went to our hostel! Very nice, called the Princessa Maria Hostel for Backpackers…we stayed in last night and slept. This morning we woke up and did a bike ride from Baños to for like 4 hrs to a waterfall mostly downhill..on the way stopped and bungee jumped off a bridge!! Which was amazing! I have some awesome pictures that I will post soon when back in Quito...

Heeey Everyone! So I've been here for officially almost one week! We started our week by having Spanish classes all day on Tuesday and then Wednesday we started clinics! I have been doing Spanish classes in the morning for four hours (8:30-12:30) and then we break for lunch and then I had clinic in the afternoon from 3-6 pm. Yesterday was my 1st day at clinic I was at the Clinica de la Y (pronounced yay). This is a family medical clinic for anyone. I was with a ...

Hey everyone! So today we went out thru Quito to see the area and the hospitals that we will be working at! We only went on the South side! It was nice :) I am defiantly looking forward to it. Then we had some time to spare so we around Gringoandia - which is this area where all the gringos go which has a lot of internet cafes and restaurants. so we had some time to spare before lunch and classes. Spanish classes start this afternoon from 2-6 pm! That is all i ...